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	Talks (since 2000) 2008 Formal Methods in General Philosophy of Science, at the conference of the ESF Research Program The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Vienna, Austria, December 2008. Disagreement and Consensus in Science, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, Belgium, November 2008. Modeling in Social Choice Theory, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Univerity of Bielefeld, Germany, November 2008. TBA, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, October 2008. Models and Interpretation, at the Eighth Meeting of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, USA, October 2008. Computer Simulations in Political Science and Political Philosophy, at the symposium Simulating Social Phenomena, XXI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, University of Duisburg-Essen, September 2008. Consensus, Compromise, and Judgment Aggregation, International Network for Economic Method Conference, Madrid, Spain, September 2008 (with Jan Sprenger). Theories, Models and Phenomena: A Bayesian Account, at the conference Data - Phenomena - Theories: What's the Notion of a Scientific Phenomenon Good for?, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2008. TBA, at the Evert Willem Beth Centenary Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2008. Formal Methods in Philosophy of Science,  at the workshop Formal Methods in Philosophy at the Sixth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Cracow, Poland, August 2008.  TBA, at the 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2008. Konsens, Kompromiss und das diskursive Dilemma, Colloquium, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science, University of Hannover, Germany, July 2008. Consensus, Compromise, and Judgment Aggregation, Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, June 2008. Consensus, Compromise, and Judgment Aggregation, at the 9th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Montreal, Canada, June 2008 (with Jan Sprenger). Consensus, Compromise, and Judgment Aggregation, Working Group in History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics and Science, University of California at Berkeley, USA, April 2008. Between Unity and Disunity: A Bayesian Account of Intertheoretic Relations, at the workshop Probability, Confirmation and Fallacies, University of Leuven, Belgium, April 2008. Judgment Aggregation: An Epistemic Perspective, Logos Colloquium, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, March 2008. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretische Methoden in der Wissenschaftstheorie, at the conference Was ist Wissenschaft? Darstellung und Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Bonn, Germany, March 2008. 2007 Judgment Aggregation: An Epistemic Perspective, Philosophy of Probability Seminar, IHPST, Paris, France, December 2007. Judgment Aggregation: An Epistemic Perspective, Institute of Philosophy, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, December 2007. Between Unity and Disunity:  A Bayesian Account of Intertheoretic Relations, The Zeno Lectures Series, Leiden University,  The Netherlands, November 2007. Reliable Methods of Judgment Aggregation, EIPE Research Seminars, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November 2007. Judgment Aggregation and the Problem of Truth-Tracking, at the SILFS 2007 Conference, Milan, Italy, October 2007 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Merging Judgments and the Problem of Truth-Tracking, at progic07: The Third Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic, University of Kent, UK, September 2007. Judgment Aggregation and the Problem of Truth-Tracking, at the 38th Meeting of the European Mathematical Psychology Group, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, September 2007 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Consensus, Deliberation and the Paradoxes of Judgment Aggregation, at the Judgment Aggregation Workshop, Freudenstadt, Germany, September 2007 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Judgment Aggregation and the Problem of Truth-Tracking, at the 5th International Conference on Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice, Bilbao, Spain, June 2007 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Aggregation in Multi-Agent Systems and the Problem of Truth-Tracking, at TARK XI, Brussels, Belgium, June 2007 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Between Unity and Disunity: A Bayesian Account of Intertheoretic Relations, at the workshop The Formal and the Empirical - Tensions in Scientific Knowledge, University of Wuppertal, Germany, May 2007. Aggregation in Multi-Agent Systems and the Problem of Truth-Tracking, at the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 2007 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Merging Judgments and the Problem of Truth-Tracking, at the symposium Recent Work on Judgment Aggregation, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2007 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Probability and Decoherence, at the 15th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics, University of Leeds, UK, March 2007. Probability and Decoherence, Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar, Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK, February 2007. Probability and Decoherence, Sigma Club Seminar, London School of Economics, London, UK, January 2007. 2006 Naturalisierter Bayesianismus, Philosophical Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany, December 2006. Modeling in Philosophy of Science, Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Brussels, Belgium, December 2006. Merging Judgments and the Problem of Truth-Tracking, at the 1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC-2006), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2006 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Welfarism and the Assessments of Social Decision Rules, at the 1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC-2006), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2006 (with Claus Beisbart). Merging Judgments and the Problem of Truth-Tracking,  at the 8th Augustus de Morgan Workshop on Belief Revision, Belief Merging and Social Choice, King's College London, UK, November 2006 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Unification and Coherence, at the symposium Unification in Science - The Hows and Whys, at the conference PSA 2006, Vancouver, Canada, November 2006. Probability and Decoherence, at the workshop on Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, October 2006 (with Patrick Suppes). Aggregating Judgments vs. Aggregating Desires, at the workshop Aggregation of Opinions, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University, New Haven, USA, September 2006 (with Gabriella Pigozzi). Probability and Decoherence, at the workshop Decoherence, Quantum Measurement and the Arrow of Time, Beuggen, Germany, September 2006 (with Patrick Suppes). Scientific Rationality: Bayesianism vs. Reliabilism. Six presentations at the European Forum Alpbach, Austria, August 2006 (with Clark Glymour). Computer Simulations, Experiments and Statistics, at the symposium A New Philosophical Image of Science, at the conference HOPOS 2006, Paris, France, June 2006. Modeling in Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Scottland, June 2006. Comments on Jon Williamson: Inductive Influence, at the Formal Epistemology Workshop 2006, University of California at Berkeley, USA, May 2006. Unification and Coherence, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, April 2006. Modeling in Philosophy of Science, at the conference Causation, Probability and Decision, Centre for Time, University of Sydney, Australia, April 2006. What Is a Scientific Theory? A Bayesian Account, Monash Bayesian Reasoning Workshop 2006, Melbourne, Australia, April 2006. Probability and Decoherence, Sothern California Philosophy of Physics Group, Irvine, USA, March 2006 (with Patrick Suppes). Modeling in Philosophy of Science, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA, March 2006. Unification and Coherence, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, March 2006. Unification and Coherence, William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, March 2006. Modeling in Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of California at Davis, USA, February 2006. Modeling in Philosophy of Science, Department de Philosophie, Université de Genève, Switzerland, February 2006. Modeling in Philosophy of Science, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California at Irvine, USA, January 2006. Modeling in Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, January 2006.  2005 A Utilitarian Assessment of Alternative Decision Rules in the Council of Ministers, at the conference Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice 4, University of Caen, France, 2005 (with Luc Bovens and Claus Beisbart). Modeling Partially Reliable Information Sources, at the Formal Epistemology Workshop 2005, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2005 (with Rolf Haenni). Why There Cannot Be a Single Probabilistic Measure of Coherence, at the Formal Epistemology Symposium, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2005 (with Luc Bovens). A Reply to Glymour, Joyce and Sober, at the Author Meets Critics session on the book Bayesian Epistemology, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 2005. Welfare, Voting and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly, Nottingham High School, Nottingham, UK, 2005. Formal vs. Historical Accounts of Scientific Theory Change, British Society for the Philosophy of Science, London, UK, 2005. Modeling Scientific Theory Change, at the Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005. Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Models, at the conference Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Understanding, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2005 (with Roman Frigg). Why There Cannot Be a Single Probabilistic Measure of Coherence, at the conference of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Toronto, Canada, 2005 (with Luc Bovens). 2004 The Formalist and the Historicist Should be Friends, at the conference Formal vs. Historical Accounts of Scientific Theory Change in Paris, France, 2004. Superoperator Methods in Quantum Optics, Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway, London, UK, 2004. Bayesianism and the Practice of Science, at the workshop Rationality and Patterns of Reasoning, Bertinoro, Italy, 2004. Models in Science and Philosophy, at a symposium of the Lauener-Stiftung in honor of Patrick Suppes. Bern, Switzerland, 2004. Modeling High-Temperature Superconductivity: Correspondence at Bay?, at the International Conference Rethinking the Comparative Evaluation of Scientific Theories: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities? in Nancy, France, 2004. Parameterising the Atomic Nucleus: Explanation, Prediction and the Role of Intertheoretic Coherence, in the Weekly Philosophy of Physics Seminar, Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK, 2004. Bayesian Epistemology I, at a workshop on the book L. Bovens and S. Hartmann, Bayesian Epistemology (OUP 2003), Department of Philosophy, University of Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2004. Probabilistic Modeling in Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, University of Leeds, UK, 2004. Reduction and Emergence in Particle Physics, at the conference Emergence: Issues in Philosophy of Science, Paris, France, 2004. Probabilistic Modeling in Philosophy, three lectures at the Formal Epistemology Workshop 2004, University of California at Berkeley, USA, 2004. 2003 Varieties of Spaces, at the Workshop Spaces and Constraints of the Strategy Institute of Boston Consulting Group, Oxford, UK, 2003. Warum interessieren sich Philosophen für naturwissenschaftliche Modelle? at the conference Modellbildung in den Naturwissenschaften, Studienstiftung der deutschen Volkes, Kloster Drübeck/Harz, Germany, 2003. Parameterizing the Atomic Nucleus: Explanation, Prediction and the Role of Intertheoretic Coherence, at the Philosophy, Probability and  Physics Seminar, University of Konstanz, Germany, 2003. Bayesian Coherentism, Popper Seminar, London School of Economics, London, UK, 2003. Welfare, Voting and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly, Joint Weekend of New LSE Philosophy Students, Cumberland Lodge, 2004. Parameterizing the Atomic Nucleus: Explanation, Prediction and the Role of Intertheoretic Coherence, Philosophy of Physics Seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK, 2003. Bayesian Coherentism I, at the workshop Coherence at the Fifth International  Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bielefeld, Germany, 2003. Theories and Models: A Probabilistic Account, at the symposium Models in Philosophy of Science at the Fifth International Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bielefeld, Germany, 2003. Witness Reliability, the Condorcet Jury Theorem and the Conjunction Fallacy, at the workshop Philosophy and Probability at the Fifth International  Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bielefeld, Germany, 2003 (with Luc Bovens). Bayesian Coherentism I, at the workshop Bayesian Epistemology  at the 26th International Wittgenstein Symposiums, Kirchberg, Austria,  2003. Parameterizing the Atomic Nucleus: Explanation, Prediction and the Role of Intertheoretic Coherence, at the symposium Models, Simulations, and the Application of Mathematics, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany, 2003. Modellbildung in der Philosophie, Department of Philosophy, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, 2003. A Bayesian Approach to Information Gathering and Belief Formation, at the workshop BayesDays '03, Centre for Interdisciplinary Plasma Science, Max-Planck-Insitute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany, 2003. Bayesian Coherentism, William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, 2003. Comment on A. Rueger's Incompatible Models for Scientific Realist, 2003 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2003. 2002 Modellbildung in der Philosophie, contribution to the Lecture Series Aktuelle Probleme der Wissenschafts- und Erkenntnistheorie, University of Hamburg, Germany, 2002. Parameterizing the Atomic Nucleus: Explanation, Prediction and the Role of Intertheoretic Coherence, at the symposium Model Construction and Evaluation in the Computationally Complex Sciences, at the conference PSA 2002, Milwaukee, USA.  Explanatory Pluralism Made Coherent,  at the International Congress Causation and Explanation in Natural and Social Sciences, Ghent, Belgium, 2002. Kohärenter explanatorischer Pluralismus'', at the XIX. Deutsche Kongress für Philosophie in Bonn, Germany, 2002. Welfare, Voting and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly, at the Fourth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Lund, Sweden, 2002 (with Luc Bovens). An Impossibility Result for Coherence Rankings,  at the Fourth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Lund, Sweden, 2002 (with Luc Bovens). Welfare, Voting, and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly, at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, Seattle, WA, USA, 2002 (with Luc Bovens). Explanation, Reduction and Fundamental Physics, at the Annual Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2002. 2001 Explanation, Reduction and Fundamental Physics, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, 2001. Towards a Probabilistic Model for Belief Change, Department of Computing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2001. Explanation, Reduction and Fundamental Physics, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2001. Explanation, Reduction and Fundamental Physics, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, 2001. The Variety-of-Evidence Thesis and the Reliability of Instruments: A Bayesian-Network Approach, at the Conference Computation and Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, 2001. Belief Expansion, Contextual Fit and the Reliability of Information Sources, at the conference Context 2001, Dundee, Scottland, 2001 (with Luc Bovens). The Import of Auxiliary Theories of the Instrument: A Bayesian-Network Approach, at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2001 (with Luc Bovens). The Variety-of-Evidence Thesis and the Reliability of Instruments: A Bayesian-Network Approach, at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, MI, USA, 2001 (with Luc Bovens). Model Based Reasoning in Social Choice Theory, at the conference Model Based Reasoning 2001, Pavia, Italy, 2001 (with Luc Bovens). The Import of Auxiliary Theories of the Instrument: A Bayesian-Network Approach, at the confernece of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, 2001 (with Luc Bovens). Solving the Riddle of Coherence, at the conference of the Society for Exact Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, 2001 (with Luc Bovens). The Import of Auxiliary Theories of the Instrument: A Bayesian-Network Approach, at the meeting of The British Society for the Philosophy of Science, York, England, 2001 (with Luc Bovens). The Riddle of Coherence, at the Forth International  Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bielefeld, Germany, 2001 (with Luc Bovens). 2000 Solving the Riddle of Coherence, at the Colloquium On Keith Lehrer's Epistemology, University of Konstanz, Germany, 2000 (with Luc Bovens). Bayesian Networks in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 2000. Das Raumproblem im Briefwechsel von Oskar Becker mit Hans Reichenbach und Paul Lorenzen, at the Colloquium Die Philosophie und die Wissenschaften. Zum Werk von Oskar Becker, Hagen, Germany, 2000. Coherence, Belief Expansion, and Bayesian Networks, at the 8th Intl. Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning NMR'2000, Breckenridge, CO, USA, 2000 (with Luc Bovens). Bayesian Networks in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, at the conference Computation and Philosophy, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, 2000 (with Luc Bovens). Bayesian Networks in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, at the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Berlin, Germany, 2000 (with Luc Bovens). Bayesian Networks in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, at the conference Foundations of the Formal Sciences II, Bonn, Germany, 2000 (with Luc Bovens).