Talks and Events

Some events in the recent past

Talks on Youtube

Talks at Conferences, Workshops and Colloquia

• Jan 2026: tba, Research Colloquium of Jochen Briesen, Heidelberg.
• Dec 2025: Do Linguistic Interventions Change Minds?, Research Colloquium of Hannes Leitgeb, Munich.
• Dec 2025: Because I’m not a NAZI?!? Race Talk and Sociolinguistic Variation (with Leda Berio, Daniel James, and Alex Wiegmann), Research Colloquium for Theoretical Philosophy Münster/Düsseldorf/Saarbrücken.
• Sept 2025: Because I’m not a NAZI?!? Race Talk and Sociolinguistic Variation (with Leda Berio, Daniel James, and Alex Wiegmann), Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives Workshop, FU Berlin.
• Sept 2025: Reference Shift: A Kripkean Rescue for a Kripkean Problem” (with Andrea Raimondi), GAP.12, Düsseldorf.
• Sept 2025: What is a philosophical methodology?” (with Christian Nimtz), GAP.12, Düsseldorf.
• May 2025: What is a philosophical methodology? (with Christian Nimtz). Joachim Horvath’s Research Colloquium at Ruhr University Bochum.
• Jan 2025: Can we improve the way we think by changing the way we speak?, Research Colloquium of the DFG research group “Modal and a-modal cognition”, Tübingen.
• Jan 2025: The cognitive roots of the problem of free will (with Jakob Ohlhorst), Department Seminar at the Open University. (invited)
• Jan 2025: The cognitive roots of the problem of free will (with Jakob Ohlhorst), EXTRA.14 research colloquium. (invited)
• Nov 2024: Conceptual Engineering: Eine sehr kurze Einführung. Conceptual Engineering im Schulunterricht Workshop. Online.
• Sep 2024: Babbling stochastic parrots? On reference in large language models, XXVI. DKPhil, Münster.
• Jul 2024: Ameliorative projects, psychological essentialism, and the power of nouns, Barcelona. (invited)
• Jul 2024: Ameliorative projects, psychological essentialism, and the power of nouns, Bielefeld.
• Apr 2024: Virtual Reality between realism and fictionalism, online guest lecture, Hong Kong University. (invited)
• Mar 2024: Commentary on Nadja-Mira Yolcu’s Expression and Negation. An Expressivist Account of Disavowals, G27, Erlangen. (invited)
• Nov 2023: Does conceptual engineering change minds? The nameability argument for conceptual engineering, EXTRA.12 research colloquium. (invited)
• Oct 2023: A taxonomy of recent theories of conceptual engineering (with Guido Löhr and Mark Pinder), ConceptLab Hong Kong (online). (invited)
• Oct 2023: On the possibility of heavy-duty conceptual engineering (with Jakob Ohlhorst), Philosophical and psychological perspectives on conceptual change, UNAM (online). (invited)
• Aug 2023: “The cognitive roots of the problem of free will”, ECAP.11, Vienna.
• Jun 2023: “The nameability argument for linguistic engineering”, Conceptual engineering workshop, Uppsala. (invited)
• Jun 2023: “The nameability argument for linguistic engineering”, Conceptual engineering workshop, Warsaw. (invited)
• Apr 2023: “Merely verbal agreement, in philosophy and beyond”, EXTRA.11 research colloquium, Bochum. (invited)
• Feb 2023: “The folk concept of race” (with L. Berio, D. James, B. Kenyah-Damptey, A.), Berlin. [attendance cancelled] (invited)
• Oct 2022: “How words matter. The case for linguistic revision”, ESDIT Conference 2022, Leiden.
• Sep 2022: “On the possibility of heavy duty conceptual engineering” (with Jakob Ohlhorst), GAP.11, Humboldt-University Berlin.
• Sep 2022: “How words matter. The case for linguistic revision”, GAP.11, Humboldt-University Berlin.
• Jul 2022: “Was ist conceptual engineering und wozu ist es gut?”, Racism workshop (organized by Daniel James), Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf. (invited)
• Jul 2022: “On the possibility of heavy duty conceptual engineering” (with Jakob Ohlhorst), EXTRA.3 workshop Conceptual Engineering and its place in philosophical methodology, Schloss Reisensburg, Günzburg.
• May 2022: “The mind-expanding powers of conceptual engineering” (with Jakob Ohlhorst), Conceptual Engineering Online Seminar, hosted by Manuel Gustavo Isaac (Zürich) & Kevin Scharp (St. Andrews). (invited)
• Jan 2022: “On the possibility of heavy duty conceptual engineering” (with Jakob Ohlhorst), MüBiOs workshop, online.
• Jan 2022: “On the possibility of heavy duty conceptual engineering” (with Jakob Ohlhorst), EXTRA.8 research colloquium. (invited)
• Sep 2021: “Is there an implementation challenge for conceptual engineering?”, XV. Congress of DGPhil, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.
• Jun 2021: “Was ist Conceptual Engineering und wozu ist es gut?”, TU Dresden. (invited)
• Jun 2021: “Defending conceptual Engineering against the Implementation challenge”, Disputatio talk at Ruhr University Bochum.
• Mar 2021: “How terminology matters. Conceptual Engineering meets Psycholinguistics”, CONCEPT, University of Cologne. (invited)
• Mar 2021: “How words matter, Conceptual engineering meets psycholinguistics”, Conceptual engineering: Normativity and Feasibility (online conference).
• Feb 2021: “Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering”, research colloquium of Daniel James, University of Düsseldorf. (invited)
• Feb 2021: “Why conceptual engineers should not worry about topics”, graduate seminar of Katja Stoppenbrink, University of Münster. (invited)
• Jan 2021: “Why conceptual engineers should not worry about topics”, research colloquium of Christian Nimtz, University of Bielefeld. (invited)
• Dec 2020: “Words matter. Conceptual Engineering Meets Psycholinguistics”, EXTRA.6 research colloquium.
• Dec 2020: “Words matter. Conceptual Engineering Meets Psycholinguistics”, The implementation challenge to conceptual engineering (online conference). (invited)
• Aug 2020: “Why conceptual engineers should not worry about topics”, ECAP.10 (online conference).
• Jan 2020: “Folk intuitions about reference change. An empirical challenge to Kripke”, Experimental Philosophy of Language and Metaethics Workshop, Ruhr University Bochum. (invited)
• Nov 2019: “Why conceptual engineers should not worry about topics”, Cologne epistemology research colloquium, University of Cologne. (invited)
• Oct 2019: “Why conceptual engineers should not worry about topics”, EXTRA.2 workshop, Ruhr University Bochum.
• Aug 2019: “Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering”, PLM 5, University of St Andrews.
• Aug 2019: “Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering”, CLMPST16, Symposium: Methodology for conceptual engineering, University of Prague. (invited)
• May 2019: “An experiment about reference change” (with Alex Wiegmann), EXTRA.1 workshop, Ruhr University Bochum.
• May 2019: “Engineering what? On Concepts in Conceptual Engineering”, BW 11, University of Barcelona.
• Mar 2019: “Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering”, ConceptLab, University of Oslo.
• Feb 2019: “Conceptual Engineering between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory” (with Francesca Bunkenborg), ConceptLab, University of Oslo.
• Sep 2018: “Ameliorative Analysis between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory”, GAP.10, University of Cologne.
• Sep 2018: “The Externalist Challenge to Conceptual Engineering”, The Foundations of Conceptual Engineering Conference, NYU, New York City.
• Jun 2018: “Does semantic externalism preclude meaning control?”. Externalism and Conceptual Change workshop, St. Andrews.
• May 2018: “Is Conceptual Engineering possible?”, a.r.t.e.s.-colloquium, Rome.
• Sep 2017: “Conceptual Re-engineering in Philosophy. Insights from Carnap and Strawson“, XIV. Congress of DGPhil, Humboldt-University Berlin.
• Aug 2017: “Philosophy as Conceptual Re-engineering”, AHRC Workshop ‘Transition and Transformation’, University of Cambridge.
• Aug 2017: “Conceptual Re-engineering in Philosophy“, ECAP.9, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
• Nov 2016: “Conceptual Re-engineering for Everyone“, Cologne-Leuven Epistemology Meeting, University of Cologne.
• Oct 2016: “Begriffsrekonstruktion in der Erkenntnistheorie: Rechtfertigung“, Annual colloquium of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne.
• Jun 2016: “In defense of ascetic science“, HU-Princeton Workshop, Humboldt-University Berlin.