Talks/Events

Upcoming

CONFERENCE TALK Advancing task ontologies for the scientific study of consciousness. Annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Heraklion, Greece

CONFERENCE TALK EEG decoding reveals posterior but not prefrontal cortex involvement in subjective awareness independent of report (with Sabine Gnodde, Vlada Aslanov, Abigail Hogan, Umberto Olcese, and Timo Stein). Annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Heraklion, Greece

WORKSHOP Mechanistic explanation and scientific progress in neuroscience and beyond – with prof. dr. Carl Craver (with Marc Slors). University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

SYMPOSIUM The interaction between conceptualization and measurement across disciplines (with Riet van Bork, Cristian Larroulet Philippi, Miguel Ohnesorge and Marlene Werner). Biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Groningen

Past

2025

CONFERENCE TALK Requirements of a validity concept for cognitive neuroscience (with Yingying Han). Triennial meeting of the Dutch Association for the Philosophy of Science, Leusden

INVITED TALK Conceptual issues in cognitive neuroscience. Department of Cognitive Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam

DISCUSSION SESSION A philosophy of science perspective on consciousness research (with Lua Koenig and Martijn Wokke). Meetings of the Alhambra: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness, Granada, Spain

2024

INVITED TALK The Cycle of Kinds. Cognitive ontology and the search for neural mechanisms: Three foundational problems. Goldstone lab, Indiana University, US

CONFERENCE TALK Advancing task ontologies for cognitive neuroscience. Biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, New Orleans, US

INVITED TALK Het vertaalprobleem in de neurowetenschappen. Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte, Leusden

CONFERENCE TALK Limitations of bottom-up cognitive ontology revision. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam

WORKSHOP Exploring the interaction between conceptualization and measurement across the sciences. Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

PUBLIC LECTURE A tribute to Daniel Dennett (with Marc Slors). Radboud Reflects, Radboud University, Nijmegen

INVITED TALK Conceptual issues in cognitive neuroscience. CoCoSys lab, Leiden University, Leiden

INVITED TALK The neural mechanisms of what? Measurement problems in cognitive neuroscience and beyond. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

SYMPOSIUM Language and/or Memory: How to Slice the Domain-Cake? (with Chris Madan and Vitória Piai). European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy

2023

SYMPOSIUM Explaining the brain: From neural mechanisms to computational models. Biennial meeting of the Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition, Egmond aan Zee

DOCUMENTARY DISCUSSION ‘If only night wouldn’t fall’ by Marc Schmidt (with Riet van Bork). Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

PUBLIC LECTURE On consciousness. Filosofisch Café Nijmegen, Nijmegen

INVITED TALK Thinking about measurement. AI, Media & Democracy Lab, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

WORKSHOP TALK Measurement matters in cognitive neuroscience and beyond. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

SEMINAR With prof. dr. James Woodward (with Dingmar van Eck and Federica Russo). Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

KEYNOTE LECTURE A call for collaboration across borders. Research Day Radiology/Nuclear Medicine Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam

INVITED TALK Conceptual issues in cognitive neuroscience. Language function and dysfunction lab, Radboud University, Nijmegen

PUBLIC LECTURE On consciousness (with Marc Slors). Radboud Reflects, Radboud University, Nijmegen

INVITED TALK The Cycle of Kinds. Cognitive ontology and the search for neural mechanisms: Three foundational problems. Mind and Action talks, Utrecht University, Utrecht

INVITED TALK The Cycle of Kinds. Cognitive ontology and the search for neural mechanisms: Three foundational problems (with comments by Dr. Burnston and Dr. McCaffrey). Neural Mechanisms Online seminar series

INVITED TALK The neural mechanisms of what? Measurement problems in cognitive neuroscience and beyond. Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam