Curriculum Vitae Dr. Michael Stoeltzner

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1 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Michael Stoeltzner 1. PERSONAL RECORD - Work Address: University of South Carolina, Department of Philosophy, 901 Sumter St., Columbia, SC 29208; Telephone: , Fax: ; stoeltzn@mailbox.sc.edu. - Home address: 1911 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29201, Telephone: EDUCATION - Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Bielefeld. Dissertation: Vienna Indeterminism. Causality, Realism and the Two Strands of Boltzmann s Legacy ( ) supervised by Professors Martin Carrier and Michael Heidelberger; July Ph.D. Studies: Master of Natural Science, University of Vienna. Thesis: Non-regular Representations in Quantum Electrodynamics supervised by Professor Walter Thirring; January Studies of Physics Studies of Philosophy, Psychology, Rhetoric, Russian Literature, and Physics (since 1987) at the University of Tübingen; Grant by German National Scholarship Foundation EMPLOYMENT 2008-present Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia Assisstant Professor, Interdisciplinary Center for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) and Department of Philosophy, University of Wuppertal (Germany) Postdoctoral Researcher (at Assistant Professor level), Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT) and Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld (Germany) Research Fellow (at graduate level), Special Research Program (SFB) Coexistence and Cooperation of Rival Paradigms in Science, University of Salzburg (Austria) Scientific Member (Contractor), Institute Vienna Circle, Vienna (Austria). 4. VISITING FELLOWSHIPS - 15 September 15 December 2014: Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Munich, Germany May 20 July 2014: Visiting Professor (university-wide guest lectureship program), University of Bielefeld, Germany. - 1 June- 30 July 2013: Visiting Research Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 1

2 - 15 May 15 July 2012: Visiting Research Fellow at the project group at the University of Bielefeld May 15 August 2010: Visiting Research Fellow at POS@BIU at the University of Bielefeld. - 1 June 31 July, 2009: Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, Dept. for Contemporary History, supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). - March 2008: Erasmus visiting professor at Charles University Prague. - January May 2004: Visiting Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. - January June 2001: Visiting Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California at Irvine. 5. RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS : USC Provost s Humanities Grant The Emergence of Fluctuations, 20,000 $ : Associate Professor Development Award of the College of Arts and Sciences, 12,000 $ : Distinguished External Partner (at Co-PI rank) of a Research Collaboration on the Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider ; co-supervising two three year post-doctoral positions funded by DFG (German Research Foundation); approximately 900,000 $. The extension of this group to a six-year DFG Research Unit of 16 researchers and postdocs has successfully passed the first of two evaluation steps. I would be co-leader of one of six groups, and have written the respective sketch : Team Co-Leader of History of Philosophy of Science Section in an ESF-program The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ; one workshop per year supported by 20,000 $. - September April 2014: USC Provost Visiting Scholars Grant, 23,448 $. - Summer 2011: Research Grant, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, 8550 $. - Fall 2010: Host of one German intern financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); total sum 4,500 $. - Fall 2009: host of two student interns supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), support equivalent to 3,000 $ per intern. - Travel Grants (outside research projects) by Austrian Ministry of Science, History of Science Society, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Project Coordinator of a Cooperation with the Eötvös University Budapest in the field of Philosophy of the Sciences (Partners: George Kampis and Miklós Rédei). Three successful applications to the Aktion Österreich-Ungarn (total sum Euro) and two books published (Nos. 1 and 2). 6. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES Board Member, German Academic International Networks (GAIN) : Member of the Conseil Scientifique of MSH Lorraine, an interdisciplinary research cooperation of the Universities in Metz and Nancy, France : Member of the Selection Committee for North American Students, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) New York. - Since 2007: Editor of CONCEPTUS, a de Gruyter Journal (with Gabriele Mras, Vienna, Christoph Pfisterer, Zurich, and Otto Neumaier, Salzburg), since fall 2012 Editor-in-Chief. 2

3 - Reviewer for Akademienprogramm, Union of the German Academies of Science, National Science Foundation (NSF), and Einstein Foundation, City of Berlin, Italian Evaluation of Research Quality Exercise (VQR ), Zukunftskolleg Konstanz (Germany) : Secretary of the Society for the History of Science (GWG), advisory board member since then. - Since 1999 Secretary (since 2008 full member) of the Program Committee of the Vienna International Summer University organised by the University of Vienna. - Referee for Erkenntnis, Synthese, Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Logic, Nous, Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, The Monist, Public Understanding of Science, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Philosophiegeschichte und Logische Analyse, and book manuscripts for Springer, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press. - Member of the Program Committee for the 2009 and 2013 meetings of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) and for the 2015 Kant-Congress. - Co-organizer of the Wittgenstein-Symposium 2005 Time and History at Kirchberg am Wechsel. - Member of the Selection Committee of the German National Scholarship Foundation 2006 and Review Editor of the Institute Vienna Circle Yearbook, Associate Editor of Vienna Circle Institute Library. 7. UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION - Since 2012: DAAD Advisor for USC students : Member of the Faculty Senate, University of South Carolina; - Member of Search Committees in Philosophy of Science (2012, 2013) and Chair of Search Committee Philosophy of Knowledge, Languange, Mind (2014). - Since 2008: Member of the Colloquium Committee, Department of Philosophy, USC. 8. PUBLICATIONS A: Edited volumes: 1. John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum Physics (with M. Rédei), Kluwer, Dordrecht (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 8), (reviewed in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Physics) 2. Appraising Lakatos. Mathematics, Methodology, and the Man (with G. Kampis and L. Kvasz) (Vienna Circle Institute Library), Kluwer, Dordrecht, (reviewed in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Philosophia Mathematica, and British Journal for the Philosophy of Science) 3. Kurt Gödel: Wahrheit und Beweisbarkeit, 2 vols. (together with B. Buldt, E. Köhler, W. Schimanovich, C. Klein und P. Weibel), Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna, (reviewed in History and Philosophy of Logic, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Philosophia Mathematica, Süddeutsche Zeitung) 4. Formale Teleologie und Kausalität (with Paul Weingartner), Mentis, Paderborn; Zeit und GeschichteTime and History, Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel,

4 6. Wiener Kreis (together with Thomas Uebel), Meiner, Hamburg, 2006, a collection of basic original texts with a comprehensive introduction. (reviewed in Rivista di Filosofia, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, Institute Vienna Circle Yearbook); paperback edition published in Time and History (with Friedrich Stadler), Frankfurt: Ontos-Verlag, Probabilities, Laws, and Structures (with Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, and Marcel Weber), Springer: Dordrecht, B: Papers in refereed journals or highly selective conference volumes 1. (with Walter Thirring) Entstehen neuer Gesetze in der Evolution der Welt, Naturwissenschaften 81(1994), pp ; reprinted with an afterword in L. Huber (ed.) Wie das Neue in die Welt kommt. Phasenübergänge in Natur und Kultur, Wien: Wiener Universitätsverlag, 2000, pp Gödel and the Theory of Everything, in Petr Hájek (Ed.): Gödel 96. Logical Foundations of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics Kurt Gödel s Legacy, Springer, Heidelberg, Berlin, New York, 1996, pp ; reprinted by the Association of Symbolic Logic. 3. Federigo Enriques e l Enciclopedia Neurathiana, Rivista di Storia della Filosofia 3/1998 (anno LIII), pp Vienna Indeterminism: Mach, Boltzmann, Exner, Synthese 119 (1999), pp Über zwei Formen von Realismus in der Quantentheorie, Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 30 (1999), pp An Auxiliary Motive for Buridan s Ass. Otto Neurath on Choice Without Preference in Science and Society, Conceptus 33, 82 (2000), pp Le principe de moindre action et les trois ordres de la téléologie formelle dans la Physique, Archives de Philosophie 63 (2000), pp Franz Serafin Exner s Indeterminist Theory of Culture, Physics in Perspective 4 (2002), How Metaphysical is Deepening the Foundations? Hahn and Frank on Hilbert s Axiomatic Method, in: M. Heidelberger, F. Stadler (eds.): History of Philosophy of Science. New Trends and Perspectives, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002, pp The Least Action Principle as the Logical Empiricist s Shibboleth, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003), pp On Optimism and Opportunism in Applied Mathematics (Mark Wilson Meets John von Neumann on Mathematical Ontology), Erkenntnis 60 (2004), pp A New Glimpse of John von Neumann s Thought Laboratory (Essay Review), Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (2007), pp Eine Enzyklopädie für das Kaiserreich. Die Kultur der Gegenwart im Kontext der Geschichte philosophischer Enzyklopädien, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 31 (2008), pp Gangarten des Rationalen: Zu den Zeitstrukturen der Quantenrevolution, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 32 (2009), Model Dynamics: Epistemological Perspectives on Science and Its Educational Practices, in P. Humphreys/ C. Imbert (eds.): Models, Simulations, and Representations, New York: Routledge, 2012, pp (with Veronika Hofer) What is the Legacy of Austrian Academic Liberalism?, N.T.M. 20 (2012), pp

5 17. Terminal causality, atomic dynamics and the tradition of formal teleology, Acta Philosophica Fennica 89 (2012), Constraining the Higgs Mechanism: Ontological Worries and the Prospects for an Algebraic Cure, Philosophy of Science 79 (2012), Higgs Models and other Stories about Mass Generation, forthcoming in Journal for the General Philosophy of Science 2/ (with Arianna Borelli) Model Landscapes in the Higgs Sector, in Vassilios Karakostas, Dennis Dieks (eds.), EPSA11 Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science, The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings 2, Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, C: Encyclopedia and Handbook Entries 21. Classical Mechanics, in: Sahotra Sarkar und Jessica Pfeifer (Eds.): The Philosophy of Science. An Encyclopedia, New York-London: Routledge, 2006, pp John von Neumann, op.cit., pp The Logical Empiricists, in: Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies (eds.): Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford: OUP 2009, Ludwig Boltzmann, Populäre Schriften, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. D: Papers in collections according to research fields History of Philosophy of Science (also 3., 4., 6.) 25. The Auxiliary Motive in the Forest and in Optics, in: E. Nemeth, F. Stadler (Eds.): Encyclopedia and Utopia Vienna Circle Yearbook 4, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1996, pp Reprinted in a shortened version and with editorial modifications in J. Blackmore, R. Itagiki, S. Tanaka (eds.): Ernst Mach s Vienna Or Phenomenalism as Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht-Kluwer, 2001, pp Neurath s Auxiliary Motive as the Limit Case of Inductive Reasoning, in: G. Dorn, G. Schurz, P. Weingartner (Eds.): The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy, Beiträge des Wittgenstein Symposiums 1997 published by the Austrian Ludwig-Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, vol. 2, pp Commento a Massimo Ferrari, in: Filosofia Analitica Prospettive teoriche e revisioni storiografiche ed. by Michele DiFrancesco, Diego Marconi, Paolo Parrini, Guerini Studio, Milano, 1998, pp Vienna Indeterminism II: From Exner to Frank and von Mises, in: P. Parrini, W. Salmon, M. Salmon (eds.): Logical Empiricism. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003, pp Les critères de la signification peuvent-ils expliquer l indéterminisme? Causalité et vérificationisme en mécanique quantique chez Moritz Schlick, in J. Bouveresse & P. Wagner (eds.), Mathématiques et expérience, L empirisme logique à l épreuvre ( ), Paris, Odile Jacob, 2008, pp Can meaning criteria account for indeterminism? Moritz Schlick on causality and verificationism in quantum mechanics, in: Fynn Ole Engler und Mathias Iven (Eds.), Moritz Schlick. Leben, Werk und Wirkung, Berlin: Parerga, 2008, pp

6 31. Copenhagen without indeterminism? Moritz Schlick s verificationism in quantum mechanics, in: Helen Bohse und Sven Walter (Eds.) (2007): Selected Papers of the GAP.6, Sixth congress of the Society for Analytic Philosophy, Berlin, September (CD-ROM) Paderborn: mentis. pp Das Ignorabimus ist sinnlos. Der Wiener Kreis und die Rückkehr eines alten Problems in der Quantenmechanik, in Kurt Bayertz et al. (eds.): Weltanschauung, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, vol. 3: Der Ignorabimus-Streit, Hamburg: Meiner, 2007, pp Two papers in a Discussion on Otto Neurath s Die Verirrten des Cartesius : Buridans Esel kann geholfen werden, dem Pseudorationalisten nicht and Ein logisches Problem und seine gesellschaftliche Relevanz, Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik 18 (2007), pp , Shifting the (non-relativized) a priori. Hans Reichenbach on Causality and Probability ( ), in Dennis Dieks et. al (Eds.) Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation. New Trends and Old Ones Reconsidered, Springer: Dordrecht, 2011, pp Erwin Schrödinger Vienna Indeterminist, in: Marcel Weber et al. (eds.): Probabilities, Laws, and Structures, Springer: Dordrecht, 2012, pp Did Reichenbach Anticipate Quantum Mechanical Indeterminism?, in N. Milkov, V. Peckhaus (eds.), The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism, Dordrecht: Springer (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science), 2012, pp (together with Veronika Hofer) Vienna Circle Historiographies, in M.C. Galavotti, E. Nemeth, and F. Stadler (eds), European Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage, Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, (Institute Vienna Circle Yearbook) Formal Teleology and Action Principles (also 7., 10., 17.) 38. Action Principles and Teleology, in: Harald Atmanspacher, Gerhard Dalenoort (Eds.): Inside Versus Outside., Springer, Berlin/New York 1994, pp To What Extent Does Formal Teleology Still Make Sense, in: M. Féhér, L. Ropolyi, and O. Kiss (Eds.): Hermeneutics and Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999, pp Philosophical Connotations of the Action Principle In How Far Can Formal Teleology Still Make Sense?, in: E. Gal, M. Marcelli, P. Michalovic: Science and Philosophy in Shaping Modern European Culture III. Bratislava pp Zeroth Order Teleology: The Principle of the Distinguished Case, in: Uwe Meixner, Peter Simons (eds.): Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age, Beiträge des Wittgenstein Symposiums 1999 published by the Austrian Ludwig-Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Bd.2, pp Das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung, in: Barbara Boisits, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (eds.): Organologische Denkmodelle in der Moderne, Passagen-Verlag, Wien, 2000, pp (Studien zur Moderne 11). 43. Das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung und die drei Ordnungen von formaler Teleologie in der Physik, SFB-F012 Forschungsmitteilung 10. (German version of 7.) 44. Drei Ordnungen formaler Teleologie. Ansichten des Prinzips der kleinsten Wirkung, in Michael Stöltzner and Paul Weingartner (eds.): Formale Teleologie und Kausalität, Mentis, Paderborn, 2005, pp Can the Principle of Least Action Be Considered a Relativized a priori?, in Michel Bitbol, Pierre Kerszberg and Jean Petitot (eds.), Constituting Objectivity. Transcendental Approaches of Modern Physics, Dordrecht: Springer (Western Ontario Series) 2009, pp

7 46. Das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung, in: Michael Esfeld (ed.), Philosophie der Physik, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (stw), 2012, pp Philosophy of Mathematical Physics (also 9., 11., 18.) 47. Opportunistic Axiomatics John von Neumann on the Methology of Mathematical Physics, M. Stöltzner, M. Rédei (eds.): John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum Physics (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 8), Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2001, pp What Lakatos Could Teach the Mathematical Physicist, in: G.Kampis, L.Kvasz, M. Stöltzner (Eds.): Appraising Lakatos Mathematics, Methodology, and the Man, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2002, pp (with Miklós Rédei) Soft axiomatism: John von Neumann on method and von Neumann s method in the physical sciences, in E. Carson, R. Huber (eds.): Intuition and the Axiomatic Method, Dordrecht: Kluwer, (Western Ontario Series), 2006, S Theoretical Mathematics On the Philosophical Significance of the Jaffe-Quinn Debate, in: G. Boniolo, P. Budinich, M. Trobok (eds.): The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences. Interdisciplinary and Philosophical Aspects, Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, pp An Everlasting Temptation? Philosophical Perspectives on Action Principles and Variational Calculus, Oberwolfach Report 56/2005, pp Epistemology of Applied Science (also 15.) 52. Application Dominance and the Model Web of Plasma Physics, in Roland Bluhm & Christian Nimtz (eds.) Selected Papers Contributed to the Sections of GAP.5, Fifth International Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, Bielefeld, September (CD-ROM) Paderborn: mentis, 2004, pp Und sie bewegt sich doch!, Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik 18 (2007), Zur Epistemologie des Realexperiments, Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik 18 (2007), (together with Martin Carrier) Modelle als Bausteine angewandter Wissenschaft, in: Peter Weingart, Martin Carrier, Wolfgang Krohn (Eds.), Nachrichten aus der Wissensgesellschaft, Weilerswist: Velbrück, 2007, pp History of Science (also 8., 13., 14., 16.) 56. Philipp Frank and the German Physical Society, in: W. DePauli-Schimanovich, E. Köhler, F. Stadler (eds.): The Foundational Debate Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 3, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1995, pp Kausalität in Die Naturwissenschaften. Zu einem Milieuproblem in Formans These, in: Heike Franz, Werner Kogge, Torger Möller, Torsten Wilholt (eds.), Wissensgesellschaft: Transformationen im Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Alltag, pp (iwt-paper 2000, accessible under Michael%20Stoeltzner%20Wissensgesellschaft.pdf). 58. Mathematische Physik Angewandte Mathematik: Zwei Beispiele, Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten 187 (2001), pp

8 59. Neu gelesen: Ludwik Fleck,: Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache. Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv, Basel 1935, Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 7 (2007), pp Das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung als Verkörperung der Planckschen Epistemologie, in D. Hoffmann (ed.), Max Planck und die moderne Physik, Berlin: Springer 2010, pp The Causality Debates and their Preconditions. Revisiting the Forman Thesis from a Broader Perspective, in C. Carson, A. Kojevnikov, and H. Trischler (eds.), Quantum Mechanics and Weimar Culture. Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis, Singapore: World Scientific, 2011, pp Zur Genese der Schweidlerschen Schwankungen und der Brownschen Molekularbewegung, in: Silke Fengler und Carola Sachse (Hg.), Kernforschung in Österreich. Wandlungen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsfeldes , Wien: Böhlau. 2012, pp Critique of Universal Theories in Physics (also 1.,2.) 63. Levels of Physical Theories, in: W. DePauli-Schimanovich, E. Köhler, F. Stadler (Eds.): The Foundational Debate. Complexity and Contructivity in Mathematics and Physics (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 3), Kluwer, Dordrecht 1995, pp Gödels Theoreme als Brücke zwischen Mathematik und Physik, in: Winfried Löffler, Edmund Runggaldier (Eds.): Vielfalt und Konvergenz der Philosophie, hpt, Wien, 1998, pp Zeitreisen, Singularitäten und die Unvollständigkeit physikalischer Axiomatik, in: Bernd Buldt et al. (Eds.): Kurt Gödel: Wahrheit und Beweisbarkeit, vol. 2, hpt, Wien, 2002, pp Philosophy of Quantum Theory (also 5., 19.) 66. On Various Realisms in Quantum Theory, in: M.C. Galavotti, A. Pagnini (Eds.): Experience Reality & Scientific Explanation. Essays in Honor of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1999 (Western Ontario Series vol. 61), pp Quantenmechanik und Schulphilosophie, in: Alfred Schramm (Ed.): Philosophie in Österreich 1996, Wien, Hölder, Pichler, Tempsky, 1996, pp Quantum Mechanics and Schulphilosophie, in: E. Gal, M. Marcelli, P. Michalovic: Science and Philosophy in Shaping Modern European Culture IV. Bratislava: Nadácia Komunikácia 1996, pp What John von Neumann Thought of the Bohm Interpretation, in: Daniel Greenberger, Wolfgang L. Reiter, Anton Zeilinger (eds.): Epistemological and Experimental Perspectives on Quantum Physics, Dordrecht, Kluwer, pp Bohm, Bell and von Neumann. Some Philosophical Inequalities Concerning No-go Theorems, in T. Placek, J. Butterfield (eds.): Modality, Probability, and Bell s Theorem, Dordrecht: Kluwer (NATO series), 2002, pp The Dynamics of Thought Experiments-Comment to Atkinson, in M. Galavotti (ed.), Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2003, pp Where to Put It? Time Between Axioms and Supplementary Conditions, in S. Albeverio, P. Blanchard (eds.), The direction of time, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014,

9 Theory of Culture, Aesthetics, Science and the Arts 73. Formale Intuition jenseits und diesseits der Kunst, In: Peter Weibel (Ed.): Jenseits von Kunst, Wien: Passagen-Verlag, 1997, pp (two further papers and introductions in the catalogue which has appeared in English translation at Springer, Vienna, 2005). 74. Zur Gegenstandskonstitution in der Ästhetik Bolzanos, in M. Seiler, F. Stadler (eds.): Kunst, Kunsttheorie und Kunstforschung im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs. In memoriam Kurt Blaukopf ( ), Wien: ÖBV-HPT, 2000, pp Philosophy of Biology 75. A Physicist s Comment to Rosenberg, in M.Carrier, G.J.Massey, L. Ruetsche (Eds.): Science at the Century s End. Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science, Pittsburgh-Konstanz: University of Pittsburgh Press-Universitätsverlag Konstanz, pp General Philosophy: 76. Wissenschaftsgeschichte Wissenschaftstheorie Geschichte der Wissenschaftstheorie, in Rainer Born & Otto Neumaier (eds.) Philosophie Wissenschaft Wirtschaft. Miteinander denken voneinander lernen, Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 2001, pp Rapporti tra la filosofia italiana e la filosofia austriaca: gli ultimi trent anni e le loro precondizioni, in Francesco Paolo Firrao (ed.): La filosofia italiana in discussione, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2001, pp Taking Eternal Recurrence Scientific: A Comparative Study of Oskar Becker, Felix Hausdorff, and Abel Rey, in: Helmut Heit, Günter Abel und Marco Brusotti (Eds.): Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Berlin-New York (de Gruyter), 2012, pp Die ewige Wiederkunft wissenschaftlich betrachtet. Oskar Beckers Nietzscheinterpretation im Kontext, in B. Babich and D. Ginev (eds.), The Multidimensionality of Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Heidelberg: Springer (Contributions to Phenomenology 70), 2014, E: Reviews 80. Review Essay: Vienna Berlin Prague: Centinaries Carnap, Reichenbach, Zilsel, in: W. DePauli- Schimanovich, E. Köhler, F. Stadler (eds.): The Foundational Debate Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 3, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1995, pp Julian B. Barbour: Mach s Principle From Newtons Bucket to Quantum Gravity, Boston & Basel, 1995; in: W. DePauli-Schimanovich, E. Köhler, F. Stadler (eds.): The Foundational Debate Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 3, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1995, pp Bernard d Espagnat: Veiled Reality-An Analysis of Present-Day Quantum Mechanical Concepts, Reading, MA, 1995; in: E. Nemeth, F. Stadler (Eds.): Encyclopedia and Utopia Vienna Circle Institue Yearbook 4, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1996, pp Paolo Parrini: Conoscenza e realtà. Saggio di filosofia positiva, Roma, 1995; in: W. Leinfellner, E. Köhler (Eds.): Game Theory, Experience, Rationality. In Honor of John C. Harsanyi Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 5, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1997, pp

10 84. John Earman: Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers and Shrieks, Oxford, 1995, in: Jan Wolenski, Eckehart Köhler (Eds.): Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 6, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1998, pp Domenico Constantini, Maria Carla Galavotti (Eds.): Probability, Dynamics and Causality. Essays in Honour of Richard C. Jeffrey. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997 (reprint from Erkenntnis Vol. 45, Nos. 2/3, 1996), in: Nuncius 2/1998, pp Elisabeth Nemeth-Richard Heinrich (Eds.): Otto Neurath: Rationalität, Planung, Vielfalt, Wien: Oldenbourg, 1999, in: Die Presse Spektrum 18./19 März Stefan Bauberger: Was ist die Welt? Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2003, Physik Journal 12/2004: Thomas Ryckman: The Reign of Relativity: Philosophy in Physics, , Oxford UP; Isis 99 (2008), Carsten Seck: Theorien und Tatsachen, Mentis 2007, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 33 (2010), F: Newspaper Publications: 90. Quantenwelten Philosophische Streifzüge durch die theoretische Physik, Wiener Zeitung Extra, 4. September 1998, p Theorien über Theorien. Geschichte der Wissenschaftstheorie ein neuer Forschungsgegenstand, Wiener Zeitung-Extra, 23. Juni 2000, p Mit Mimose und Stachelschwein (Arnold Berliner und Die Naturwissenschaften), Süddeutsche Zeitung 22 March 2002, p Higgs, wo seid ihr?, Der Freitag 30. Juli 2009, p. 19. G: Theses: 94. Non-Regular Representations in Quantum Electrodynamics, Master Thesis, University of Vienna, October Vienna Indeterminism. Causality, Realism and the Two Strands of Boltzmann s Legacy, Ph.D.- dissertation, University of Bielefeld, March Publication in preparation; accessible under 8. INVITED LECTURES (*denotes single lectures outside conferences) 1. Action Principles and Teleology, Endo/Exo-Problems in Dynamical Systems, Ringberg Castle 29 March-2 April Philosophical Connotations of the Action Principle, Science and Philosophy in Shaping Modern European Culture III, Pila (organized by University of Bratislava), August The Auxiliary Motive in the Forest and in Optics, Conference in honor of Otto Neurath s 50th death day, Vienna December * Levels of Physical Theories, Eötvös University, Budapest, December * Mach e Neurath: dalla economia del pensiero al motivo ausiliare, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di Filosofia, 26 April

11 6. On Various Realisms in Quantum Theory - Birthday Present to Wesley Salmon, Experience Reality and Scientific Explanation, wokshop in honor of Merrilee and Wes Salmon, Florence, May Quantum Mechanics and Schulphilosophie, Science and Philosophy in Shaping Modern European Culture IV, Pila (organized by University of Bratislava), 2-5 September Mach, Enriques, il Circolo di Vienna sulla filosofia della fisica, Federigo Enriques - maestro a Bologna, Bologna, 29 November Über zwei Formen des Realismus in der Quantenmechanik, Internationales Kolloquium zu den philosophischen Problemen der Quantenmechanik, Philosophisches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg, 9 November Gödel and the Theory of Everything, Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Eötvös University Budapest, 11 November Commento a Massimo Ferrari, Convegno nazionale dell Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica, Vercelli, September * La tesi di Forman e la probabilità degli anni venti, Università di Trieste and SISSA Trieste, 11 June Comment to Alexander Rosenberg, The Limits of Science. 4 th Pittsburgh-Konstanz meeting on the Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, PA, 3-7 October * The Least Action Principle - A Methodological Analysis, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (Canada), 16 October Vom molekularen Chaos zur Weltkultur. Franz Serafin Exner s physikalistische Kulturtheorie, Wissenschaften in Wien um Natur- und Kulturforschung im Dialog organized by Olaf Breidbach and Karl Clausberg at the University of Lüneburg, July 16-18, On Ernst Mach s Adoption in Vienna and Budapest. Some General Remarks and an Unexpected Link, Austrian Philosophy and Hungary, Workshop of the Austrian Institute for Eats and South East Europe, Budapest, October * What Lakatos can teach the Mathematical Physicist, Centre for Philosophical Studies, King s College London, 27 January, Vienna Indeterminism II: Statistical Causality in Frank and von Mises, Analytical and Continental Aspects of Logical Empiricism Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Florence, 2-4 November Rapporti tra la filosofia italiana e le filosofie straniere (tavola rotonda presieduta dal prof. Fabrizio Desideri), Verso il 2000: La filosofia italiana in discussione, National Congress of the Italian Philosophical Society, Florence November Kausalität in Die Naturwissenschaften. Zu einem Milieuproblem in Formans These, Wissensgesellschaft: Transformationen im Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Alltag. Workshop of the Graduiertenkolleg, University of Bielefeld, July * Opportunistic Axiomatics John von Neumann on the Methodology of Mathematical Physics, University of Texas at Austin (Department of Philosophy, Program in History and Philosophy of Science), March * Opportunistic Axiomatics John von Neumann on the Methodology of Mathematical Physics, Logic & Philosophy of Science Colloquium, University of California at Irvine, April 6, Causality, Determinism, Realism: Some Philosophical Inequalities, Modality, Probability, and Bell s Theorems, NATO Advance Research Workshop, Cracow (Poland), August,

12 24. Comment to David Atkinson, Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences. Workshop of the ESF Network Historical and contemporary perspectives of philosophy of science in Europe, Bertinoro (University of Bologna), 30 September 2 October, * Das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung als Shibboleth der Logischen Empiristen, Department of Mathematics, University of Mainz, 19 December, Drei Ordnungen formaler Teleologie, Workshop of the Salzburg SFB on Teleology and Causality, 7-8 March, Gödel Versus Hilbert: On the Problems of an Axiomatic Concept of Time, The Direction of Time. The Role of Reversibility/Irreversibility in the Study of Nature, organized by S. Albeverio and Ph. Blanchard, ZIF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research) Bielefeld, January, On Theoretical Mathematics, 3rd International Conference on Science and Culture, Mali Lošinj (Croatia), August, Zufallsfreie Quantenmechanik? Ein Vergleich von Moritz Schlicks Theorien der Kausalität, Forschungsstelle für Östereichische Philosophie, Graz, 16 September, * Zwischen Anwendungsdominanz und Anwendungsinnovation. Zur Wissenschaft in der Wissensgesellschaft, Department of Philosophy, University of Dusseldorf, 25 November, * Formal teleology, modality or structural realism? On what we can still learn from the principle of least action, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 23. May, * Vienna Indeterminism, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Indiana at Bloomington, 2 April, Measuring the Masses: Richard von Mises on Probability, Science and Culture, Les Mathématiques et l expérience, Collège de France, Paris, May, Formal Teleology, Modality or Structural Realism? On what we can still learn from the principle of least action, Mathematical Epistemology, 8-9 July, 2004, IDM, University of Bielefeld. 35. Philipp Frank a Vienna Indeterminist, Philipp Frank: Vienna Prague Boston, organized by the Austrian Research Society, Vienna, September, The Prague Congress 1929 and Its Ramifications, Philipp Frank: Vienna Prague Boston, organized by the Institute for History of Science of the Czech Academy of Science, Prague, 30 September-1 October, * Philipp Frank a Vienna Indeterminist, University of Toronto, 21 February, * Indeterminismus und Relativität: Einstein und die Wiener Physiker-Philosophen, Austrian Society for the History of Science, Vienna, 7 April, Machian Roots in Polya's Plausible Reasoning, Workshop on Mathematical Epistemology, University of Paderborn, 7-8 July Zwischen Gummigutt und Gastheorie, Smposium Die Brownsche Bewegung, ein interdisziplinäres Phänomen as part of the 55th annual meeting of the Austrian Physical Society, Vienna September, Felix Hausdorff s (or Paul Mongré s) Cosmic Selection and the Principle of Uniqueness, Philosophy of Space and Time at the End of the 19th Century, Rauischholzhausen, October, An Everlasting Temptation? Philosophical Perspectives on Action Principles and Variational Calculus, Oberwolfach Workshop "Mathematics in the Physical Sciences, ", December * Können Quantencomputer simulieren?, Institute for Philosophy, University of Dusseldorf, 23 May, From the Logic of Science to Epistemology, ESF Exploratory Workshop Applied Logic in the Methodology of Science, University of Bristol, 8-10 September,

13 45. The Principle of Least Action as a (Lakatosian) Thought Experiment, Explanation and Proof in Mathematics: Philosophical and Educational Perspectives, Essen, 1-4 November, Physics in a Philosophical Environment: The Causality Debates of the Interwar Years and their Preconditions, The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March, * Physics in a Philosophical Environment, University of Vienna, 28 March, Eine alte Verführung in neuen Kleidern: Das anthropische Prinzip und die teleologische Tradition, Natur ohne Sinn und Ziel? Zum Streit um Finalität und Kausalität in der Interpretation der Natur, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal-Bethel, 7 July, From Bohr s Positivism to Formal Teleology. On the Different Voices in Eino Kaila s Terminalkausalität., The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism, The Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, 2-5 September Kausalität und Wahrscheinlichkeit bei Moritz Schlick, Moritz Schlick ( ) - Leben, Werk und Wirkung, Rostock, September, Der Determinist sollte nicht protestieren, sondern experimentieren : Borns Rolle in den Debatten um Kausalität und Wahrscheinlichkeit, Physik, Philosophie und Politik - Max Born Symposium zum 125. Geburtstag des Nobelpreisträgers, organized by the Max-Born-Institute and the Max-Planck- Institute fort he History of Science, Berlin, December * Why Philosophers Should Bother about the Principle of Least Action, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 28 January, Oskar Beckers Interesse für Nietzsches ewige Wiederkunft des Gleichen, Meeting on the Philosophy of Oskar Becker, Hagen, February Gangarten des Rationalen. Zu den Zeitstrukturen der Quantenrevolution, Annual Meeting of the German Society for the History of Science, Halle 1-3 May, * Kulturmensch und Kapellmeister der Naturwissenschaften. Arnold Berliner ( ), Lecture Series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Nazi book burning organized by the Begegnungsstätte Alte Synagoge. 56. * Kausalität im Logischen Empirismus, Universität Bochum, Institut für Philosophie, 8. Mai Mathematical Thought Experiments and Plausible Reasoning: How Pólya and Lakatos Developed a Machian Theme, The Vienna Circle and Hungary. Der Wiener Kreis und Ungarn, Wien Mai Models in Science and Education, Seminar on Models and Simulations, CNRS Paris Juni * Ceteris paribus-gesetze in der Wissensgesellschaft, Universität Wien, Institut für Philosophie, 2. Juli Axiomatik als Kritik. Einige philosophische Betrachtungen über die mathematische Physik, Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Arbeitskreis Philosophie, München, März Das Labor der besten möglichen Welten. Variationsprinzipien und verwandte Gedankenexperimente in der mathematischen Physik, Lecture Series on Thought Experiments, University of Oldenburg, 28 May Des Wiener Indeterministen Blick durch das Mikroskop. Vorstudien zu einer lokalen Tradition in der Erforschung der Brownschen Bewegung und ihrer Verbindung zur Wiener Radiumforschung, Workshop Geschichte der österreichischen Kernforschung im 20. Jahrhundert, Vienna, 4-6 June,

14 63. Participant or Outlier? Hans Reichenbach s views on Causality and Probability during the European Phase of Logical Empiricism,The Berlin Group: Knowledge, Probability, Interdisciplinarity, Paderborn (Germany) 2-4 September From a Relativized Kant to the Pragmatic Justification of Induction. Hans Reichenbach s views on Causality and Probability during the European Phase of Logical Empiricism, Workshop of the ESF network Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Utrecht October * Ceteris paribus Gesetze in der Wissensgesellschaft, University of Mainz, 8 February Scientific Philosophy: The Formation of a Discipline, its Benefits, and its Drawbacks, Scientific Philosophy: Past and Future, Tilburg 13. April Higgs-Modelle, Philosophie der Physik in Deutschland - Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven, University of Hannover, June, Parting the Ways on Concept, Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism, Vienna, June, Vienna Indetermism. Some remarks on the emergence of a philosophical stance in the context of explorative experimentation, Workshop of the ESF network Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Paderborn, Germany, 9-10 July, * Die Messung der Schwankungen. Zum Verhältnis von Experimentaltraditionen und philosophischen Denkstilen, Department of Philosophy, University of Hannover, Germany, 22 January, * On the Discovery of Schwankungen ( ), Department of Science Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, 18 February, Naturwissenschaftler als Wissenschaftshistoriker bzw. Wissenschaftstheoretiker, 28th Symposium oft he Society for History of Science Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Vienna, May, Comment to Norton Wise Science as (Historical) Narrative, BiCoDa Conference Research in its Technological Setting, Bielefeld (Germany), 29 June-2 July, Kant s third critique in 20 th century philosophy of science, Workshop of the ESF network Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Montpellier, France, November, Max Planck und Moritz Schlick. Dialoge zur Philosophie der modernen Physik, Moritz Schlick Die Rostocker Jahre und ihr Einfluss auf die Wiener Zeit. 3. Internationales Rostocker Moritz- Schlick-Symposion, Rostock, November, Vienna Circle Historiographies (with Veronika Hofer), Philosophy of Science in Europe - European Philosophy of Science, Vienna, 5-7 December, Axiomatische Entdeckungsreisen. Hilbert und die Göttinger Tradition der Mathematischen Physik, Lecture Series on the History of Physics, University of Göttingen, 4 June, * Why are philosophers interested in the Higgs particle, Physics Colloquium, Tufts University, 15 February Could Mathematical Physics Serve as a Model for Formal Epistemology or Mathematical Philosophy?, Formal Epistemology and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism, University of Texas at Austin, April Guest Lectures at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy on What Do Feynman Diagrams Represent? (17 July 2013), Completeness, Categoricity and Dismissal (18 July 2013). 81. Zwei Dissertationen am kritischen Punkt in Schlicks Kausalitätstheorie 4. Internationales Rostocker Moritz-Schlick-Symposion Das Netzwerk der wissenschaftlichen Philosophie Moritz Schlick und seine Schüler, Moritz-Schlick-Forschungsstelle, Rostock, Germany, November, Why Philosophers Are Interested in the Higgs Particle, Physics Colloquium at the University of South Carolina, 3 April,

15 83. Warum interessiert sich ein Philosoph für Higgs und LHC?, Joint Physical and Philosophical Colloquium, University Paderborn, 17 July Mathematische Gedankenexperimente bei Mach, Pólya und Lakatos, 8 th Rhine-Westphalia Seimnar on the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Paderborn, 11 July, POSTERS AND ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS 1. Action Principles, Teleology, and Hermeneutics, Science and Hermeneutics, Veszprem, 4-9 September, Poster on my Diploma thesis in Physics at the meeting of the German Physical Society in Hamburg, Levels of Physical Theories, EEAST Conference on Science, Technlogy and Change: New Theories, Realities, Institutions, Budapest, August Levels of Physical Theories,The Foundational Debate. Complexity and Constructivity in Mathematics and Physics; Vienna, September, Quantum Mechanics and Schulphilosophie, 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August, Quantenmechanik und Schulphilosophie, Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Graz, 28 February-2 March Gödel and the Theory of Everything, Gödel 96-Logical Foundations of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics-Kurt Gödel s Legacy, Brno, August What Lakatos Could Teach the Mathematical Physicist, Lakatos-Workshop of the Institute Vienna Circle, September Neurath s Auxiliary Motive as the Limit Case of Inductive Reasoning, The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy (20 th International Wittgenstein Symposium), Kirchberg/Wechsel, August Gödels Theorem als Brücke zwischen Mathematik und Physik, Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Innsbruck, 1 February-4 February Zeroth Order Teleology: The Principle of the Distinguished Case, Metaphysics in the Post- Metaphysical Age (22 nd International Wittgenstein Symposium), Kirchberg am Wechsel, August Vienna Indeterminism: Mach, Boltzmann, Exner, 11 th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, August 20-26, 1999 Cracow, Poland. 13. Zur Konstitution des schönen Gegenstandes bei Bolzano, Philosophie-Wissenschaft-Wirtschaft (Miteinander Denken/ Voneinander Lernen), VI th Congress of the Austrian Philosophical Society, Linz, 1-4 June, The Least Action Principle as the Empiricist s Shibboleth, HOPOS 2000 Third International History of Philosophy of Science Conference, Vienna 6-9 July, Theoretische Mathematik und Mathematische Physik Lakatos und von Neumann, Argument und Analyse. 4. Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Bielefeld September Logical Empiricists Teleology: Eino Kaila and Ernest Nagel, The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism. Re-Evaluation and Future Perspectives of the Research and Historiography, Vienna July 12-14,

16 17. Franz Serafin Exner s Indeterminist Theory of Culture, Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Denver, CO, 8-11 November, Can the claim for historical justice serve as a pragmatic motive of theory choice?, New perspectives on the relation between history and philosophy of science. Joint Meeting of the Division of History of Science and the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Paris, 3-5 October, Hilbert's Axiomatic Method and Its Defective Reception by Logical Empiricists, Foundations of the Formal Sciences IV, Bonn February, On the Model Landscape of Plasma Physics and Fusion Research, Models, Simulations and the Application of Mathematics, ZIF, Bielefeld, 4-6 June, What can we still learn from the principle of least action?, 12 th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo (Spain), 7-13 August The Principle of Least Action. Structural realism or mathematical thought experiment?, 12 th UK Conference on the Foundations of Physics, Leeds, 2-5 September Rechtfertigungsstrategien in der anwendungsdominierten Forschung am Beispiel der Fusionsforschung, Philosophy, Science, Scientific Philosophy. Fifth International Congres of the Society for Analytic Philosophy, Bielefeld, September Plasma Science or Fusion Research? On a discipline in application-dominated science, Annual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Atlanta, GA, October From Vienna Indeterminism to Copenhagen Complementarity, HOPOS 2004, San Francisco, June, The Principle of Least Action: Modal Reasoning and Mathematical Thought Experiment Thought Experiment, Thought Experiments Rethought, Gent September Quantum Mechanics without Indeterminism: On the Surprising Strength of Verificationism within Schlick s Second Theory of Causality, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, December, Optimismus und Opportunismus in der Axiomatisierung der Physik, Annual Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Berlin 3-9 March Anthropic Principles, Teleology, and the Philosophy of Time, 28 th International Wittgenstein Symposium Time and History, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 8-13 August Can We Extend Ourselves to the Nanoworld?, Models and Simulations, Paris, June Felix Hausdorff s Cosmic Selection and the Principle of Uniqueness, HOPOS 2006 Paris, June Copenhagen without Indeterminism. Moritz Schlick s Verificationism in Quantum Mechanics GAP 6. Philosophie: Grundlagen und Anwendungen, Berlin September, On the Ontology of Theoretical Mathematics, Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics, Berlin, September, Eine Enzyklopädie für ein Kaiserreich? Die Kultur der Gegenwart in der Perspektive der Enzyklopädiengeschichte, Kultur der Wissenschaften Wissenschaften in der Kultur. Joint meeting of the DGGMNT and the GWG, Braunschweig, 28 September 1 October, An Old Temptation in a New Outfit: The Anthropic Principles and the Teleological Tradition, Annual Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Heidelberg, 5-9 March, Kausalität im Logischen Empirismus, 8th Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, Graz, 7-9 June, Vienna Indeterminism and the Problems of Quantum Mechanical Causality, HQ1: Conference on the History of Quantum Physics, Max-Planck-Institute for History of Science, Berlin, 2-6 July,

17 38. The Axiomatic Method as a Critical Enterprise and the Quantum Controversy, Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Arlington, VA, 1-4 November, Can the Principle of Least Action Be Considered a Relativized A Priori?, First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Madrid November, Das Prinzip der kleinsten Wirkung als Verkörperung der Planckschen Epistemologie, Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society, Section, History of Physics, Berlin, 12 February Shifting the a priori: Hans Reichenbach on Causality and Probability , Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society, Working Group Philosophy of Physics, Freiburg, 3-6 March, Mathematical Thought Experiments in Mach, Pólya, and Lakatos, Philosophy of Mathematics: Sociological Aspects and Mathematical Practice, Vienna May, Shifting the a priori: Hans Reichenbach on Causality and Probability ( ), HOPOS 2008, Vancouver BC, June, Max Born and the Debates on Causality and Probability in Quantum Physics, HQ2 Conference on the History of Quantum Physics, Utrecht, July, Ceteris paribus-gesetze in der Wissensgesellschaft, Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft. XXI Deutscher Kongress für Philosohie, Essen, September, Shifting the a priori: Hans Reichenbach on Causality and Probability ( ), Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Society for Philosophy, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, February, Models in Science and Education, Models and Simulation 3, Charlottesville, VA, 6-8 March, Looking through the Microscope in the Context of Vienna Indeterminism On a Local Way to Conceptualize Brownian Motion, XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Budapest 27. Juli-2.August On the Integrity of the Higgs Mechanism an Axiomatic (or C*-algebraic) Perspective, Second Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Amsterdam, October Parting the Ways on Concept, Biennial Meeting of the North and South Carolina Societies for Philosophy, Queens University, Charlotte, NC, February, Philosophy of science between rigorous method and interdisciplinarity, The Future of Philosophy of Science, Tilburg (NL) April What Does the Higgs-Model Represent?, Models and Simulations 4, Toronto 7 9 May, Mathematical Thought Experiments in Mach, Pólya and Lakatos, HOPOS (Biennial conference of the History of Philosophy of Science Society), CEU Budapest, June, Random Fluctuations in Electroscopes and Microscopes, HQ 3 (History of Quantum Physics), Max-Planck-Institute for History of Science, Berlin, 28 June 2 July, Taking eternal recurrence scientific. A comparative study of Oskar Becker, Felix Hausdorff, and Abel Rey, Nietzsche s Philosophy of Science, Technical University Berlin, July, Schwankungen in Electroscopes and Microscopes. Vienna Indeterminism and its Evidences, Integrated History and Philosophy of Science - &HPS3, Bloomington, September, The Higgs Mechanism as a Constraint? Or: How an Axiomatic Perspective May Ease Ontological Worries, Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Montreal, QC, 4-6 November Withstanding normal wear and tear Dispositions and contextualized causal relationships in the technological sciences, Department of Civil Engineering, University of South Carolina, 22 April Gangarten des Rationalen, Crossing Borders 9 th Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, Vienna, 2-4 June,

18 60. Higgs models and other stories about mass generation, 14 th International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Nancy (France), July, Higgs models and other stories about mass generation, Third Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Athens, Greece, 5-8 October The epistemic dynamics of Higgs models, First International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, Hanover (Germany), March The Principle of Least Action as a universal guide to theory building around 1900, 24 th International Congress for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester (England), July On some virtues and vices of axiomatic approaches to quantum field theory, UK-Munich Conference on the Foundations of Physics, Munich (Germany), July What Do Feynman Diagrams Represent? Fourth Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Helsinki (Finland), August Mechanism, model, particle: On the three levels of Higgs epistemology, Interdisciplinary Workshop Dedicated to the Epistemology of the LHC Evidence, Discovery, Proof: Measuring the Higgs particle, University of South Carolina, April Zur Entstehung der Schwankungen: Von einer semantischen Ambivalenz zu einer physikalischen Größe neuen Typs, Annual Meeting of the Society for History of Science, Heidelberg (Germany), May, Causality, Teleology, System: Laws in the Special Sciences from Frank to Nagel, HOPOS 2014 (Biennial Meeting of the Society for the History of Philosophy of Science), Ghent (Belgium), 3-5 July