News
- 24 August 2023, My paper with Willem Halffman, “Mapping Explanatory Language in Neuroscience”, has been accepted in Synthese!
- 27 July 2023, My commentary with Marcin Milkowski on the Levenstein et al. "On the role of theory and modeling in neuroscience." Journal of Neuroscience 43.7 (2023): 1074-1088 is now published.
- 03 July 2023, My paper "On the Role of Erotetic Constraints in Non-causal Explanations" has been accepted for publication in the Philosophy of Science.
- 15 March 2022,.My paper with Kareem Khalifa "Decoupling Topological Explanations from Mechanisms" is now accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science.
- 10 March 2022, Our symposium "Constraints and Scientific Explanation" has been accepted to the 2022 PSA in Pittsburgh. Participants: Marc Lange, Dani Bassett, myself, and Lauren Ross.
- 02 March 2022, My paper with Willem Halffman "Explanatory imperialism: empirical evidence for the claims about the pervasiveness of “mechanisms” in life sciences" got accepted for presentation at the 9th Biennial Conference of the
Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice in Ghent, Belgium, July 2-4, 2022. - 10 February 2022, Our paper (with Kareem Khalifa, Farhan Islam, J.P. Gamboa, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld) "Integrating Philosophy of Understanding with the Cognitive Sciences" was just accepted in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.
- 05 July 2021, I presented our paper (with Henk de Regt, Leon de Bruin and Marc Slors) “Can structure explain function in the brain?" at the Networks 2021: A Joint Conference of Sunbelt and NetSci, USA.
- 23 June 2021, with Nathalie Niquil gave a talk "Perspectivism and vertical-horizontal explanatory modes in ecological networks”, at The Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Colloquium, University of Tübingen, Germany.
- 23 June 2021, My paper co-authored with Kareem Khalifa, "The Directionality of Topological Explanations" is accepted for publication in Synthese.
- 15 April 2021, Presented our paper (with Nathalie Niquil and Quentin Nogues) “Perspectivism and vertical-horizontal explanatory modes in ecological networks”, at 3rd Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop organized at Radboud University in Nijmegen.
- 15-17 April 2021, Organized the third SURe annual workshop at Radboud University in Nijmegen with Henk de Regt.
- 12 March 2021, gave a talk "Veridicality problem in non-causal explanations" at the workshop: Transdisciplinary Model Transfer and its Interfaces, in Vienna, Austria.
- October 2020, Founded The Dutch Distinguished lecture Series in Philosophy and Neuroscience, with Henk de Regt, Leon de Bruin, Marc Slors, Peter Hagoort, and Gerrit Glas.
- 10 June 2020, I've been awarded the Radboud Excellence Initiative Fellowship and in September 2020 I’ll join the Institute for Science in Society, at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- 08 June 2020, My paper “The Veridicality Problem in Non-causal Explanations” is accepted for presentation at the PSA2020: The 27th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in Baltimore.
- 24 February 2020, Our theme issue ‘Unifying the essential concepts of biological networks: biological insights and philosophical foundations’ in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is published online.
- 24-25 January 2020, took part in the workshop "Description as a Way of Knowing", at the University of Vienna.
- 23 January 2020, Gave a talk "Towards a Unifying Account of Causal and Non-Causal Explanations" at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Vienna, Austria.
- 13 December 2019, took part in Kareem Kalifa's presentation of our co-authored paper entitled "Topological Explanation: A Statement and a Defense", at the University of Vienna.
- 22 October 2019, Gave a talk: "A unifying account of causal and non-causal explanations" at the Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
- 23 September 2019, My paper "General Theory of Topological Explanations and Explanatory Asymmetry" just got accepted for publication in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
- 7-12 July 2019, My symposium:“Idealizations in Computational Neuroscience: Facticity, Pragmatics and the Coding Heuristics” has been accepted for the 2019 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology that will take place in Oslo, Norway. Participants: Daniel Kostic, Cédric Brun and Nicolas Rougier.
- 11 June 2019, invited to give a talk "Unifying account of causal and non-causal explanations" at the Duesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf.
- 13 February 2019, gave a talk "Unifying the essential concepts of biological networks: explanatory directionality” at the Laboratory BOREA - Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques Université de Caen, Normandie.
- 06-18 November 2018, Accepted an invitation to give a lecture series on topological explanations at the Philosophy department of the Beijing Normal University.
- 17 October 2018, Our proposal for a theme issue is accepted in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences! Title: “Unifying the essential concepts of biological networks: biological insights and philosophical foundations”. Guest editors:
- Daniel Kostic (University Bordeaux Montaigne; Sciences, Philosophie, Humanité (SPH) University of Bordeaux & IHPST (CNRS/University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne),Paris, France).
- Claus Hilgetag (Director of the Institute of Computational Neuroscience in Hamburg, Germany).
- Marc Tittgemeyer (Head of Research Group for Translational Neurocircuitry, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany).
- 17 October 2018, My review of Khalifa's new book is now available online in Metascience (https://goo.gl/xNbDaQ)
- 02 May 2018, My paper “Minimal Structure Explanations, Scientific Understanding, and Explanatory Depth” is accepted for publication in Perspectives on Science.
- 4-6 April 2018, Organised an Interdisciplinary workshop: "Levels, Hierarchies and Asymmetries" at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris.
- 19-21 September 2018, paper "Topological Controllability of the Brain & Non‐causal Explanatory Asymmetries" accepted for presentation at the Causality in the Neuro- and Psychological Sciences 2018 (CiNaPS 2018, 19-21 September, Antwerp).
- 4-6 July 2018 Paper "Minimal structure explanations, scientific understanding and explanatory depth", accepted for presentation at the Société de philosophie des sciences 2018 conference in Nantes (France).
- June 20-22, 2018, Paper accepted for presentation at the EENPS 2018 Conference in Bratislava at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. This second biannual conference is organized by the East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS), in co-operation with the Department of Logic and Methodology of Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava.
- 23-25 May 2018, Paper accepted for presentation at the Workshop: "Explanation and Understanding", Ghent University. The workshop is organized by the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (Ghent University) and the Research Group Philosophy of Science and Technology (VU University Amsterdam).
- 4-6 July 2018, Paper "Minimal structure explanations, scientific understanding and explanatory depth", accepted for presentation at the Société de philosophie des sciences 2018 conference in Nantes (France).
- June 20-22, 2018, Paper accepted for presentation at the EENPS 2018 Conference in Bratislava at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. This second biannual conference is organized by the East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS), in co-operation with the Department of Logic and Methodology of Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava.
- 23-25 May 2018, Paper accepted for presentation at the Workshop: "Explanation and Understanding", Ghent University. The workshop is organized by the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (Ghent University) and the Research Group Philosophy of Science and Technology (VU University Amsterdam).
- 03 November 2017, Organising a workshop "Understanding from models" at the IHPST in Paris.
- October 2017, Started a new seminar at IHPST, with Denis Forest, in Philosophy of neuroscience. Check out the webpage of the seminar for updates and schedule.
- 12 December 2017, Accepted an invitation to give a talk "Asymmetries and levels of mathematical dependencies in distinguishing explanatory and representational role of mathematics in topological explanation" at the workshop "Applicability of Mathematics: Representation and Explanation" at the University of Leeds, UK.
- 28-29 June 2017 Organised an international workshop "Unifying the debates: mathematical and non-causal explanations" at the IHPST in Paris.
- 20 February 2017, Started a seminar on "Mathematical explanations in sciences" at the IHPST, Paris.
- 12 February 2017, Gave a radio interview about my work on topological explanations for the Solaris, a science popularising radio show, of the Radio Belgrade 2 (national broadcasting company, Serbia), hosted by Dr. Srdja Jankovic.
- Accepted an invitation to serve on the Program Committee of the forthcoming European Philosophy of Science Association Conference (EPSA17), which will be held in Exeter in September 2017.
- Won the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Grant (IF-EF)