Forthcoming

Representational Explanation for Deep Artificial Neural Networks: prospects and challenges

12-14 June - Filosofidagarna, Stockholm

30 June - 3 July - ESPP Conference, Utrecht

Symposium 'The Bases of Cognition: medium-(in)dependence, biological constraints, and the feasibility of computational-mechanistic explanation'

with Mazvita Chirimuuta, Federico Adolfi and Beate Krickel, ESPP Conference, Utrecht (30 Jun-3 Jul)

Predicting AI futures: the human and the unknown

6-7 October - Generated/Generative Futures Symposium, Umeå University

Past 

Functional Ontologies for AI systems: Tasks, mechanisms, and capacities - 7 Nov 2025 - Centre for Logic, Language, and Mind Seminar, Stockholm University

Functional Ontologies for AI systems: Tasks, mechanisms, and capacities - 30 Oct 2025 - Thursday Morning Talk Series, Science of Intelligence Cluster - Berlin

Representational Content in LLMs: what and whence? - 3 Sep 2025 - Center for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Inauguration Conference, Copenhagen

What could AI imagination and creativity possibly look like? - with Margherita Arcangeli - 19-20 March 2025 - Workshop on Creativity, Imagination and Artificial Intelligence - EHESS/IJN, Paris

Functional Ontologies for Explainable Al: Lessons from Cognitive Science - 13 Jan 2025 - Centre for Cognition, Computation, and Modelling Seminar Series - Birbeck, London (video recording)

Frames of Discovery and the Formats of Cognitive Representations - with Alfredo Vernazzani - 18 Oct 2024 - Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind

AI as research tool, AI as research object - Deep Learning and Philosophy Conference (DELPHI), 16-18 Sep 2024 - Graz

Philosophical Issues around Large Language Models - 10 Sep 2024 - Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy - Uppsala University

AI-as-Exploration: Navigating Intelligence Space - 14 June 2024 - Human and Artificial Meaning: On Sense and Sense-Making of AIs Workshop - Trondheim

Understanding Large Language Models: from benchmarks to functional ontologies
8 June 2024 - Filosofidagarna Conference, Gothenburg

From Explanatory Success to Cautious Realism: A few drops of disagreement - Online Symposium on Chirimuuta's book 'The Brain Abstracted' - The BrainsBlog - Link

What are Representational Formats?
17 Nov 2023  (online) - Symposium organised by the Section for Logic and Cognitive Science at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Grounding in Large Language Models: lessons for building functional ontologies for AI - Recording
21 Sep 2023 (online) - Séminaire DIC-ISC-CRIA, Université du Québec à Montréal

Understanding Large Language Models: from benchmarks to functional ontologies
10-13 July 2023 - The Indeterminacy of Computation Research Workshop, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies.

Models of (Artificial) Intelligence: idealisation and behaviour
18 July 2023 - Philosophy and Computer Science Summer School, University of Bayreuth.

Understanding Large Language Models: from benchmarks to cognitive ontologies
27-29 May 2023 - Congress of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science

The Vector Grounding Problem (with Raphaël Millière)
18 November 2022 - Philosophy Colloquium, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris

Saving representational formats: A teleocomputational view (with Alfredo Vernazzani)
28-29 October 2022 - Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind Online Conference

Models of (Artificial) Intelligence: idealisation and behaviour
14-15 November 2022 - Workshop 'Thought in Humans and Machines: Multidisciplinary Perspectives', University of Hamburg

The Vector Grounding Problem (with Raphaël Millière)
8-9 September 2022 - Workshop 'Representation in Cognitive Science', University of Barcelona

Modelling Intelligence: the good, the bad, and the plural
10-12 Jun 2022 - Filosofidagarna, Swedish Congress of Philosophy 2021, Lund, Sweden.

Toward a science of intelligence: models and behaviour
9 Feb 2022 - LOGOS Colloquium (online)

Symposium: Idealised Modelling of Mind and Life
15-18 Sep 2021 - EPSA 2021 Conference, Turin, Italy.

Grasping Complexity in AI
23-26 Aug 2021 - Summer Academy 'Artificial Intelligence and International Politics', Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie für Internationale Politik, Bonn, Germany.

Looking for a Mark of Intelligence
5-9 Jul 2021 - CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference 2021 (online).

Modelling Intelligence:  the good, the bad, and the plural (poster)
28 June-2 Jul 2021 - SSP 2021 Conference (online)

Unifying the Sciences of Intelligence
22-23 March 2021  -  Workshop "Intelligent Abilities", Science of Intelligence Cluster & Human Abilities Centre Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Unificando as ciências da inteligência: em busca de uma marca da inteligência (Unifying the sciences of intelligence)
09 Oct 2020  - 2nd International Conference on Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Saving representational formats: A computational theory (with Alfredo Vernazzani)
01 Oct 2020  - On-line weekly chats on Philosophy & the Life Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Mississippi State University.

Cognitive Representations as Idealised Models
03-04 Feb 2020  - Workshop "Representation in Cognitive Science", Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

The Teleocomputational View of Representation
28-29 Nov 2019  - Workshop "Mental Representations in a Mechanical World", Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
2-4 Sep 2019 EuroCogSci 2019 Conference, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

Unifying the Sciences of Intelligence
22-23 March 2021 -  Workshop "Intelligent Abilities", Science of Intelligence Cluster & Human Abilities Centre Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Unificando as ciências da inteligência: em busca de uma marca da inteligência (Unifying the sciences of intelligence)
09 Oct 2020 - 2nd International Conference on Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Cognitive Representations as Idealised Models
03-04 Feb 2020 -  Workshop "Representation in Cognitive Science", Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

The Teleocomputational View of Representation
28-29 Nov 2019 -  Workshop "Mental Representations in a Mechanical World", Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
2-4 Sep 2019 EuroCogSci 2019 Conference, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.