• „On the Epistemology of Data Science – the Rise of a New Inductivism“, invited talk at a symposium organized by the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing, 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Prague, August 2019)
  • „A Causal Approach to Analogical Inference“, talk at ‚Analogical Reasoning in Science and Mathematics‘ (Munich, October 2018)
  • „Objective Probabilities based on Causal Symmetries“, invited talk at workshop ‚The Method of Arbitrary Functions‘ (Madrid, September 2018)
  • „Ende der Theorie und Abgesang auf Kausalität – Neue Erkenntnisse und Erkenntnismethoden durch Big Data und maschinelles Lernen?“, invited talk at ‚Big Data & Ethik‘ (ITAS Karlsruhe, November 2017)
  • „On Theory-Ladenness in Data-Intensive Science“, invited talk at ‚Making Sense of Data in the Sciences‘ (Hannover, October 2017)
  • „On Theory-Ladenness in Data-Intensive Science“, invited talk at ‚Values and AI in Medicine and Healthcare‘ (Cambridge, September 2017)
  • „A Difference-Making Approach to Analogical Inference“, ECAP 9 (Munich, August 2017)
  • „Towards an epistemology of data science”, invited talk at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (July 2017)
  • „Causation, probability and all that: Data science as a novel inductive paradigm“, invited talk at ‘Big Data in the social sciences’ (Canterbury, June 2017)
  • „Erkenntnistheoretische Perspektiven auf datenintensive Wissenschaft“, invited talk at Deggendorfer Forum zur digitalen Datenanalyse (Deggendorf, June 2017)
  • „Epistemological perspectives on data-intensive science“, seminar on ‘data and identity’ (Salzburg, May 2017)
  • „Causation, probability and all that: Data science as a novel inductive paradigm”, DPG spring conference (Bremen, March 2017)
  • „Zwischen Empirie und Setzung. Wellen in der Raumzeit aus Sicht des geometrischen Konventionalismus.“ Astroseminar 2016 (Münster, October 2016)
  • „The Role of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Research“, Honda Research Institute (Frankfurt a.M., August 2016)
  • „Wozu Philosophie der Physik.“ Berufungsvortrag (IZWT Wuppertal, July 2016)
  • „Engineering complex phenomena using big data. Some methodological reflections“, in a symposium on “ethics of big data: the engineering of the ‘not yet’” at IACAP 2016 (Ferrara, June 2016)
  • “A causal perspective on analogical inference”, invited talk at a workshop on the history of statistics at the Institute of Statistics (LMU, March 2016)
  • “A causal perspective on modelling in the engineering sciences”, Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie (Düsseldorf, March 2016)
  • “Erkenntnistheoretische Perspektiven auf datenintensive Wissenschaft“, Berufungsvortrag (Bielefeld, December 2015)
  • “Epistemology of data-intensive science”, invited talk at AgreenSkills Annual Meeting (Barcelona, October 2015)
  • “A difference making account of causation”, EPSA 2015 (Düsseldorf, September 2015)
  • “The causal nature of modeling in data-intensive science”, invited talk at MCMP colloquium (Munich, June 2015)
  • “Datenintensive Wissenschaft – eine Variante explorativen Experimentierens?”, invited talk at Schwerpunkttagung zum Experiment der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik (Münster, May 2015)
  • „The causal nature of modeling in data-intensive science“, invited talk at Kolloquium Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung of IZWT (Wuppertal, May 2015)
  • “Difference-making as a notion of causation for data- intensive science“, 7th Workshop on the Philosophy of Information (London, March 2015)
  • “What is and why do we need philosophy of physics?”, invited talk at the Interdisciplinary Colloquium Physics – Philosophy (Florence, February 2015)
  • “Aspect of theory-ladenness in data-intensive science”, PSA (Chicago, November 2014)
  • “Data-intensive science as a new approach for dealing with causal complexity”, invited talk at Fourth Sino- German Symposium on Philosophy of Science and Technology (Bielefeld, September 2014)
  • “The prospects of data-intensive science for dealing with causal complexity”, Causality and Complexity in the Sciences (Cologne, September 2014)
  • “Is the radiation asymmetry of causal nature?”, invited talk at Causality and Causal Reasoning in Physics (Bern, June 2014)
  • “The radiation arrow of time is not a statistical arrow”, DPG Frühjahrstagung (Berlin, March 2014)
  • “Big data – the new science of complexity”, invited talk at Delft Philosophy Colloquium (Delft, December 2013)
  • “Reflections on big data science”, Poiesis concluding event (New York, December 2013)
  • “Underdetermination in 19th-century electrodynamics: Developing a philosophical position based on a historical case study”, invited talk at The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies (Bern, November 2013)
  • “How probable is physics?”, Invited talk at Science Rocks! (Munich, July 2013)
  • “Natural and causal laws in physics and engineering”, Founding Conference of Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie (Hannover, March 2013)
  • “A revolution without tooth and claw – Redefining the physical base units”, Dimensions of Measurement (Bielefeld, March 2013)
  • “What is and why do we need philosophy of physics?”, DPG Frühjahrstagung (Jena, March 2013)
  • “Big data – Is more different?”, invited talk at Science Technology and Policy Studies colloquium (Twente, February 2013)
  • “The networked society of the future”, invited talk at Urban Age Electric City Conference (London, December 2012)
  • “The structure of causal evidence in deterministic settings”, Causality and Evidence in the Sciences (Canterbury, September 2012)
  • “The structure of causal evidence in deterministic settings”, DPG Sommerworkshop (TU München, August 2012)
  • “Two problems of induction”, Annual Meeting of the British Society for Philosophy of Science (Stirling, July 2012)
  • “Zwei Probleme der Induktion”, invited talk at IZWT (Wuppertal, June 2012)
  • “The limits of probabilism”, WIP seminar of MCMP (LMU Munich, June 2012)
  • “A revolution without tooth and claw – redefining the physical base units”, Progress in Science (Tilburg, April 2012, with Christof Gaiser)
  • “An odd piece of progress: On proposals for a new SI”, DPG-Frühjahrstagung (Dresden, March 2012)
  • “The limits of probabilism”, EPSA11 – 3rd Congress of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Athens, October 2011)