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    2025

  • Prediction, Projection and Performativity (Zezulka, Genin). Workshop on Philosophy of Machine Learning, Seoul National University, February 2025. [slides]

    • 2024

  • Can Unbiased Estimation Justify Randomized Trials? (Mayo-Wilson, Genin). Probabilistic Reasoning in the Sciences, Universita Politecnica Delle Marche, Ancona, August 2024. [slides]

  • Minimax Foundations for Randomized Trials (Genin). Joint Statistical Meetings, Portland, August 2024.

  • Feasible Success Concepts for (Confounded) Causal Discovery (Genin). Pacific Causal Inference Conference, Shanghai, July 2024.

  • A Popperian's Progress (Genin). Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker Kolloquium, Tuebingen, May 2024. [video]

  • The Fair Distribution of Predictions, or Social Goods? (Zezulka, Genin)

    • Center for Philosophy, Science and Policy, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, March 2024

    • Epistemological Issues of Machine Learning in Science, TU Dortmund University, February 2024

    • Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, January 2024

    2023

  • Performativity and Prospective Fairness (Zezulka, Genin). Ethical AI Workshop at Comète, INRIA Polythechnique, Paris, November 2023

  • Randomization: Against the Tragic View (Genin, Mayo-Wilson). Fifth Sowerby Interdisciplinary Workshop, King's College London, November 2023

  • Why not Reliability? (Genin). AI, Trustworthiness and Explainability Conference, Tubingen, October 2023

  • Simplicity and Scientific Progress (Genin).

    • Philosophy Colloquium @ High Performance Computing Center, University of Stuttgart, July 2023.

    • Colloquium in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, June 2023.

  • A Novum Organum? ML and Experimental Design (Genin). Philosophy of Machine Learning Tübingen-Hannover Workshop, Leibniz Universität Hannover, May 2023

  • Reconsidering the Foundations of Experimental Design (Genin).

    • Logic, Uncertainty, Computation and Information (LUCI) Group Seminar, University of Milan, April 2023.

    • Epistemology and Theory of Machine Learning Workshop, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, March 2023.

  • Morals and Methodology (Genin) Technopolitics Conference, University of Coimbra, February 2023.

  • On Falsifiable Statistical Hypotheses (Genin) Konstanz Logic Colloquium, University of Konstanz, January 2023.

    • 2022

  • Simplicity and Scientific Progress (Genin) Imre Lakatos Centenary Conference, London Scool of Economics, November 2022. [video]

  • Randomization, Causal Discovery and Individualized Treatment (Genin, Mayo-Wilson).

    • SciCAR-Konferenz, Dortmund, August 2022. [slides]

    • German Society for Philosophy of Science, Technische Universität Berlin, August 2022. [slides]

    • Leibniz Workshop on Digital Ethics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, July 2022. [slides]

    • Philosophy of Socially Aware Data Science, University of Pennsylvania, June 2022. [slides]

    • Luxembourg Workshop on Epistemology & AI, Luxembourg University, June 2022. [slides]

  • On Falsifiable Statistical Hypotheses (Genin) Formal Epistemology Workshop, UC Irvine, May 2022. [slides]

  • Success Concepts for Causal Discovery (Genin) International Workshop on Causality and Philosophy, Kyoto, March 2022. [slides]

    2021

  • Against Predictive Invariance (Tolbert, Genin) Philosophy of Science Association Conference, Baltimore, November 2021.

  • Exploitation, or Amelioration? Dueling Pictures of Data-Scientific Rationality (Genin, Tolbert) Philosophy of Science Association Conference, Baltimore, November 2021.

  • Against Predictive Invariance (Genin, Tolbert) Bias and Discrimination in Algorithmic Decision-Making, Hannover, October 2021.

  • Statistical Decidability in Linear, Non-Gaussian Causal Models (Genin, Mayo-Wilson) Combining Probability and Logic (Progic), September 2021.

  • Statistical Decidability in Confounded, Linear Non-Gaussian Causal Models (Genin) The Neglected Assumptions in Causal Inference Workshop at ICML, July 2021.

  • Clinical Equipoise and Causal Discovery (Genin) Machine Learning in Science, July 2021.

    2020

  • Statistical Decidability in Linear, Non-Gaussian Causal Models (Genin, Mayo-Wilson) Causal Discovery and Causality-Inspired Machine Learning Workshop, 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2020.

  • Simplicity and Scientific Progress (Genin) Logic and Interactive Rationality Seminar, Amsterdam, December 2020.

  • Morals and Methodology (Genin) Seminar Series of the Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning”, Tübingen, December 2020.

  • Simplicity and Scientific Progress (Genin) Foundations of Probability Seminar, Princeton, November 2020.

  • Simplicity and Scientific Progress (Genin) American Philosophical Association (APA) Central Division, Chicago, February 2020.

    2019

  • Simplicity and Scientific Progress (Genin) Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group Talk, Toronto, October 2019.

  • Progressive Methods for Causal Discovery (Genin) 16th International Congress of Logic, Methodoology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST), Prague, August 2019.

  • Topological Learning Theory (Genin) Workshop in Philosophy and Physical Computing, Virginia Tech, June 2019.

  • Progressive Methods for Statistical Inquiry (Genin) Statistics Department Seminar, Washington University, St. Louis, March 22, 2019.

    2018

  • Inductive vs. Deductive Statistical Inference (Kelly, Genin) 26th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, November 1-4, 2018.

  • The Topology of Statistical Inquiry (Genin) Workshop on Logic, Information and Topology CMU, Pittsburgh, October 20 2018.

  • Progressive Methods for Casual Search (Genin) Workshop on Foundations of Causal Discovery CMU, Pittsburgh, September 22-23 2018.

  • Topological Epistemology of Science (Kelly, Genin) North American Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information, Pittsburgh, June 23-29 2018.

  • Simplicity and Scientific Progres (Genin, Kelly) 7th CSLI Workshop on Logic, Rationality & Intelligent Interaction, Stanford, June 2018. [slides]

  • Reply to Kevin Dorst's "Two Cheers for Akrasia" (Genin) Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, Savannah, January 2018. [slides]

    2017

  • The Topology of Statistical Verifiability (Genin, Kelly) Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Liverpool, July 2017. [slides] [poster]

  • How Inductive is Bayesian Conditioning? (Genin) Experience and Updating Workshop, Bochum, July 2017. [abstract] [slides]

  • The Topology of Statistical Inquiry (Genin) Workshop in Philosophy and Physical Computing, Virginia Tech, June 2017.

  • What is Statistical Deduction? (Genin, Kelly) Workshop in Modality and Method, CMU, June 2017. [slides]

  • Reply to Joel Pust's "Credal Omnisicience and Relvance Confirmation" (Genin) Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Central Division, Kansas City, March 2017. [slides]

    • 2016

  • Deduction, Induction, Statistics and Topology (Kelly, Genin). The Logical Structure of Correlated Information Change (LogiCIC Workshop), Amsterdam, November 2016. [slides]

  • A Topological Explanation of Empirical Simplicity (Kelly, Genin). Philosophy of Science Association Meeting (PSA), Altanta, November 2016. [paper] [slides]

  • Deduction, Induction, and Statistical Inference (Kelly, Genin). Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation 5, Univ. of Belgrade, September 2016. [video] [slides] [abstract]

  • Simplicity and Scientific Questions (Genin). Questions and Attitudes Workshop, CMU, June 2016. [slides]

    • 2015

  • Theory Choice, Theory Change, and Inductive Truth Conduciveness (Genin, Kelly).

    • Bristol-Groeningen Summer School and Conference in Formal Epistemology, University of Bristol, July 2015. [slides]

    • Fifteenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK), Carnegie Mellon, June 2015. [paper] [poster]

    • Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW), University of Washington, St. Louis, May 2015. [slides]

    • Fourth CSLI Workshop on Logic, Rationality, and Intelligent Interaction, Stanford, May 2015. (Invited Talk) [slides] [video 1] [video 2]

    2014

  • A Topological Theory of Empirical Simplicity (Kelly, Genin, Lin). The 24th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), Chicago, November 2014. [paper] [slides]

  • Learning with Ockham: Simplicity in Inductive Inference (Genin). Cool Logic Seminar, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam, October 2014. [slides]

  • An Epistemic Justification of Ockham's Razor (Kelly, Genin). Rene Descartes Lectures, Tilburg University, October 2014. [slides]

  • The St. Petersburgh Paradox (Genin, Heesen). Swiss Institute Exhibition, New York City, July 2014. [video] [slides]

  • Tracking and Statistical Knowledge (Genin). University of Miami 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Epistemology, January 2014. [paper] [slides]

  • Contraction and the Loss of True Belief (Shear, Genin).

    • North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLI), Univeristy of Maryland, College Park, June 2014. [slides]

    • Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting (CSHPS), St. Catherines, Ontario, May 2014.

    • Association of Symbolic Logic North American Meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 2014.

    • Colombian Conference in Logic, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (Philogica III), Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Columbia, February 2014.