Hans Radder

Symposium HOPOS in the Low Countries, Maastricht University, 30-10-2025: 'The journal Kennis en Methode (1977-1999)'

Discussion meeting, University College Freiburg, 15-10-2025: 'The critical theory of the common good'

Philosophy Colloquium, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, 14-10-2025: 'Empiricism must, but cannot, presuppose real causation'

Philosophy Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 12-06-2025: 'Empirical concepts: their meaning and its emergence'

Conference Philosophy of Science in a Forest, ISVW, Leusden, 30-05-2025: 'Medical research without big pharma: It's preferable, it's profitable, and it's practicable'

Filosofische kring Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 16-03-2025: 'De kritische theorie van het gemeengoed, technologie, en de coronamelder'

Guest lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 20-02-2025: 'Philosophy and history of science: Beyond the Kuhnian paradigm'

Conference Rethinking ethics -- Reimagining technology, University of Twente, 04-10-2024: 'From commodification to the common good: its approach to technology'

Conference on Transforming Science, Ghent, 25-04-2024: 'Medical research without Big Pharma: it’s preferable, it’s profitable, and it’s practicable'

Conference on Science, Technology, and Humanity, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, 07-12-2023: 'The synthetic philosophy of Srđan Lelas'

Paneldiscussie Essentiële geneesmiddelen als publiek goed, KNAW Amsterdam, 27-11-2023: 'Medisch onderzoek zonder patenten'

Epidemiology Colloquium, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden, 07-09-2023: 'How (not) to be held accountable in research: The case of the Dutch integrity code'

Symposium on Concepts and their Uses, Swiss Philosophical Society, Univesity of Bern, 28-08-2023: 'Empirical concepts: their meaning and its emergence'

Research Integrity Rounds, Radboud University Medical Centre (online webinar), Nijmegen, 14-06-2023: 'Patenting the results of medical research: who profits and who doesn’t.'

Workshop Threads of Emergence, University of Western England, Bristol, 26-05-2023: 'Empirical concepts: their meaning and its emergence'

Book launch, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 22-05-2023: 'Federica Russo’s Techno-Scientific Practices: A philosophical appraisal'

Workshop Science of Science: Beneficial Disruptions, Institute of Advanced Study, Amsterdam, 12-04-2023: 'Beneficial disruptions in science and research'

Workshop on Science at the crossroads: Intersections between academic research and journalism, Paris, 04-11-2022: 'How (not) to be held accountable in research: The case of the Dutch integrity code'

Conference on Engaging ethics and epistemology in science, Hannover, 29-09-2022: 'Science in the public interest: its theory and its practice'

Conference on Scientific expertise, communication and trust, Aarhus (online), 27-09-2022: 'Science, trust and the public good: Some philosophical comments'

NVWF Conference, ISVW, Leusden, 28-06-2022: 'Empiricism must, but cannot, presuppose real causation'

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Uhlenbeck lecture), Amsterdam, 10-06-2022: 'Values and norms in codes of ethics for scientists'

EOAR Seminar, Adelaide (online), 27-04-2022: 'Science in the public interest: its theory and practice'

PhD discussion group, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge (online), 16-03-2022: 'Q&A session on The world observed/The world conceived'

Book Symposium 'From Commodification to the Common Good', Sarton Centre for History of Science (Ghent University), 16-02-2022: 'From commodification to the common good: A bird's eye (re)view'

Conference on Reconsidering empiricism in the philosophy of science, Bristol, online, 01-04-2021: 'Empiricism must, but cannot, presuppose real causation'

Conference on Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations, Twente University, online, 07-11-2020: 'Critical theory of the common good, technology, and the corona tracking app'

Colloquium Institute for Science In Society, Online, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, 27-10-2020: 'Do open-acces publishing and a national research agenda serve the public interest of science?'

MANCEPT workshop on The public interest and the common good, Manchester (online), 09-09-2020: 'Technology and the critical theory of the common good'

Guest lecture, Bachelor Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 06-12-2019: 'Merton and the commodification of science'

Conference on The Impact of Corporate Funding on Information Law and Policy Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 23-10-2019: 'How to counter the commodification of (academic) research?'

Guest lecture, Master Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 09-10-2019: 'Merton and the commodification of science'

Conference on Science, Freedom and Democracy, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, 08-07-2019: 'Which science, which democracy, and which freedom?'

Conference on Bias in AI and Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, 17-06-2019: 'Bias in the socio-material realization of AI technologies'

Farewell Symposium Henk van den Belt, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, 08-05-2019: 'The future of science and technology: more commodification or more common good?'

Presentatie en paneldiscussie Afdeling Farmaceutische Wetenschappen, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 21-03-2019: 'Farmaceutische wetenschap en commercie'

Conference on Understanding Replication across the Sciences, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, London (Ontario), 12-10-2018: 'Reproduction and reproducibility in experimental and observational research'

Guest lecture, Master Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 09-10-2018: 'Merton and the commodification of science'

Workshop ‘Democratisation of science’, Universiteit Jean Moulin 3, Lyon, 28-05-2018: 'Which scientific knowledge is a common good?'

Guest lecture Afdeling Farmaceutische Wetenschappen, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 21-03-2018: 'Zijn universitaire patenten verenigbaar met een Mertoniaans onderzoeksethos?'

Workshop 'Perspectives on the Fourth Industrial Revolution', Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 25-11-2017: 'Theory and practice of scientific and technological patenting: an overview of philosophical and social issues'

Workshop on Philosophy of Industry-Funded Science, Yonsei University Seoul, Seoul, 24-11-2017: 'Mertonian values, scientific norms, and the patenting of academic research'

Workshop ‘Anreiz, Kosten und Erkenntnisqualität’, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, 18-11-2017: 'Which scientific knowledge is a common good?'

EPSA conference, Exeter, 09-09-2017: 'Causality, theory ladenness and reproducibility in experimental science'

Conference Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Toronto, 27-05-2017: 'Causality, theory ladenness and reproducibility in experimental science'

Panel discussion ‘The state of science in society’, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18-04-2017: 'Cracks in science: What is the biggest threat to science?'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 16-03-2017: 'Scientific knowledge as a common good'

Symposium ‘Toekomst van de filosofie’, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, 15-03-2017: 'Universiteit en filosofie: nu en in de toekomst'

Philosophy Colloquium, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 13-03-2017: 'Some comments on Susan Haack’s 'Science, Yes; Scientism, No’'

Symposium 'Free Science! Wissenschaft zwischen Goethe und Kommerz', Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, 27-01-2017: 'What’s the good of science?'

Symposium on Mediation Theory and Philosophy of Technology, Twente University, Enschede, 17-11-2016: 'Technological systems and genuine public interests'

Symposium on Technology and Scientific Knowledge, Twente University, Enschede, 16-11-2016: 'Theory and practice of scientific and technological patenting: an overview of philosophical and social issues'

Symposium ‘Het idee van een universiteit’, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 09-11-2016: 'Elf (of zelfs twaalf) fundamentele problemen van het tweede geldstroom onderzoek'

Paneldiscussie SIB-Utrecht, Utrecht, 18-10-2016: 'De wankelende wetenschap'

MANCEPT workshop on The Politics of Higher Education, Manchester, 09-09-2016: 'Why scientific knowledge is, and should remain, a common good'

Workshop ‘Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn', TU Delft, Delft, 17-06-2016: 'Philosophy of technology after the empirical turn: some comments'

NVWF Conference, Doorn, 19-05-2016: 'How inclusive is European philosophy of science?'

Amsterdam Medical Student Convention, Amsterdam, 07-05-2016: '‘Fraude' in de wetenschap. En wat eraan te doen?'

Symposium on Critical Theory of Technology and STS, Maastricht, 20-04-2016: 'Technological systems and genuine public interests'

Research School for Media Studies, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, 08-04-2016: 'The present university and its future'

Alternatieve Nieuwjaarsredes 2016, VAWO, , : ‘, Utrecht, 05-01-2016: 'Kortzichtig wetenschaps'beleid’'

OZSW Conference, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 12-12-2015: 'Causality, theory ladenness and reproducibility in experimental science'

OZSW Conference, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 11-12-2015: 'Technological systems and genuine public interests'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 27-11-2015: 'Causality, theory ladenness and reproducibility in experimental science'

Guest lecture Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL, London, 22-10-2015: 'The commodification of academic research'

Guest lecture Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Diderot University, Parijs, 20-10-2015: 'Causality, theory ladenness and reproducibility in experimental science'

Nacht van de universiteit, Rijks Universiteit Groningen, Groningen, 16-10-2015: 'Maatschappij en Universiteit'

Studium Generale, Wageningen Universiteit en Research, Wageningen, 06-10-2015: 'The present university and its future'

Paneldiscussie Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA, Amsterdam, 09-09-2015: 'Universitaire politiek en onderwijs'

Manchester Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester, 02-09-2015: 'Technological systems and genuine public interests'

SPSP conference, Aarhus, 25-06-2015: 'How to practice philosophy of science in society'

Panel discussion, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 11-06-2015: 'The future of the university'

De Nieuwe Universiteit (Universiteit Utrecht), Utrecht, 08-06-2015: 'The Academic Manifesto: from an occupied to a public university'

Paneldiscussie Spui-25 (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Amsterdam, 04-06-2015: 'De ontdekkers van de hemel. De Nederlandse sterrenkunde in de twintigste eeuw'

Guest lecture De Nieuwe Universiteit (VU Amsterdam), Amsterdam, 29-05-2015: 'Het Academisch Manifest: van een bezette naar een publieke universiteit'

Paneldiscussie Rethinking Academia, De Nieuwe Universiteit, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 03-05-2015: 'De rol van de universiteit in de samenleving'

Guest lecture Eötvös University Budapest, Budapest, 09-04-2015: 'The Academic Manifesto: from an occupied to a public university'

Guest lecture Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Toronto, 28-01-2015: 'Theory and practice of scientific and technological patenting: an overview of philosophical and social issues'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada, Waterloo, 20-01-2015: 'The Academic Manifesto: from an occupied to a public university'

Guest lecture Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada, Waterloo, 19-01-2015: 'Theory and practice of scientific and technological patenting: an overview of philosophical and social issues'

Guest lecture Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 14-01-2015: 'What’s the good of science? On its philosophical justification and its social legitimation'

Paneldiscussie Amsterdamse Academische Club, Amsterdam, 27-11-2014: 'De global corporate university'

Paneldiscussie Senaat Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18-11-2014: 'Van disciplinair naar transdisciplinair: een nieuw tijdperk voor de wetenschap?'

Guest lecture, Amsterdam University College, Amsterdam, 16-10-2014: 'The sociology of science'

Onderzoeksschool Wijsbegeerte, PhD seminar, Utrecht, 01-10-2014: 'Interdisciplinarity in philosophy of science: its relation to the history of science'

Paneldiscussie Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 22-09-2014: 'De organisatie van de wetenschap'

Paneldiscussie Onderzoeksschool Wijsbegeerte, Utrecht, 25-06-2014: 'De maatschappelijke rol van de academische filosofie'

Universiteit van Amsterdam, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Amsterdam, 22-05-2014: 'Het Platform H.NU: uitgangspunten, doelstellingen en plannen'

Paneldiscussie Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 21-05-2014: 'De hereniging van alfa en bèta'

Afscheidssymposium ‘De cognitieve drie-eenheid’, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 11-04-2014: 'De cognitieve drie-eenheid: repliek'

Afscheidscollege, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 11-04-2014: 'Waartoe wetenschap? Over haar filosofische rechtvaardiging en maatschappelijke legitimering'

Onderzoekslunch, Faculteit Wijsbegeerte VU, Amsterdam, 13-03-2014: 'Exploring philosophical issues in the patenting of scientific and technological inventions'

Symposium afscheid prof. Miguel A. Cuesta, Faculteit Geneeskunde, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 12-12-2013: 'Het leven is actie (in drievoud)'

WTMC Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, 28-11-2013: 'Science in Transition: its merits and its problems'

OZSW Conference 2013, Rotterdam, 15-11-2013: 'Exploring philosophical issues in the patenting of scientific and technological inventions'

Symposium on Philip Kitcher’s Science in a Democratic Society, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 07-11-2013: 'On well-ordered, commodified, and 'applied' science: Comments on Kitcher’s Science in a Democratic Society'

Symposium ‘Making life sciences a more inclusive endeavour in the age of intellectual property’, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, 01-11-2013: 'A deflationary neo-Mertonian critique of academic patenting'

Guest lecture Instituut voor Interdisciplinaire Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 24-09-2013: 'De commodificering van wetenschap en universiteit'

EPSA13 Conference, Helsinki, 29-08-2013: 'Towards a comprehensive (European?) philosophy of science'

Workshop ‘Science in Transition’, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, 28-06-2013: 'Science in the public interest: its meaning and continued significance'

Guest lecture Faculty of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 21-06-2013: 'Do Harper and Westphal undergird Newton’s causal realism?'

Ringvorlesungsreihe, Technische Universität, Darmstadt, 03-06-2013: 'How to counter neoliberal science policy? From commodified to public-interest science'

Workshop on Dimensions of Measurement, ZiF, Bielefeld, 15-03-2013: 'Benjamin Libet’s measurement of freely willed decisions: a critical analysis'

GWP Conference, Hannover, 11-03-2013: 'What kind of philosophy in the philosophy of science?'

Guest lecture ISIS Instituut, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, 05-03-2013: 'Why technologies are inherently normative'

SAPHIR Conference, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, 27-02-2013: 'Referential realism revisited'

Seminar on Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, Institute for Physics and Technology (Skype presentation), Moscow, 04-02-2013: 'Core notions for the philosophy of scientific experimentation'

Workshop on Science and Democracy, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 15-12-2012: 'Science in the public interest: its meaning and continued significance'

IWT-Kolloquium, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, 03-12-2012: 'Why technologies are inherently normative'

Workshop on Theoretical Philosophy, Eindhoven, 02-11-2012: 'Does the brain 'initiate' freely willed processes? A philosophy of science critique of Libet-type experiments and their interpretation'

Faculty of philosophy, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, 15-10-2012: 'Does the brain 'initiate' freely willed processes? A philosophy of science critique of Libet-type experiments and their interpretation'

Workshop ‘Grundlagenwissenschaften versus Verwertungswissenschaften?’, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, 28-09-2012: 'Neo-Mertonianism: reply to friends and critics'

Symposium ‘De universiteit in de uitverkoop?’, Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht, 15-06-2012: 'De commodificering van wetenschap en universiteit'

Workshop ‘Science and the public’, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, 01-06-2012: 'Science in the public interest: its meaning and continued significance'

NIAS Annual Meeting, Wassenaar, 08-05-2012: 'Book presentation: Science transformed? Debating claims of an epochal break'

Guest lecture Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University, Hannover, 24-04-2012: 'Does the brain “initiate” freely willed processes? A critique of Libet-type experiments and their interpretation'

Guest lecture Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, 04-04-2012: 'Does the brain “initiate” freely willed processes? A critique of Libet-type experiments and their interpretation'

Guest lecture Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, 02-04-2012: 'Mertonian values, scientific norms, and the commodification of academic research'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 29-03-2012: 'De commodificering van wetenschap en universiteit'

Guest lecture Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 29-02-2012: 'Mertonian values, scientific norms, and the commodification of academic research'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, 26-01-2012: 'Does the brain “initiate” freely willed processes? A critique of Libet-type experiments and their interpretation'

Guest lecture Department of Communication and Culture, University of, Calgary, 18-01-2012: 'Why technologies are inherently normative'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 06-01-2012: 'Does the brain 'initiate' freely willed processes? A critique of Libet-type experiments and their interpretation'

Guest lecture Interdisciplinary research group in science, technology and security, Darmstadt, 14-12-2011: 'Critical philosophy of technology: the basic issues'

Guest lecture University of Technology, Darmstadt, 13-12-2011: 'Mertonian values, scientific norms, and the commodification of academic research'

Second Dutch-German workshop on philosophy of technology, Delft, 28-10-2011: 'Exploring philosophical issues in the patenting of scientific and technological inventions'

14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Nancy, 20-07-2011: 'Does the brain ‘initiate’ freely willed processes? A critique of Libet-type experiments and their interpretation'

Guest lecture Academisch cultureel centrum ‘Spui 25’, Amsterdam, 31-05-2011: 'Heeft de wetenschapsfilosofie nog toekomst?'

VU Alumnidag 2011, Amsterdam, 28-05-2011: 'Neurowetenschap en vrije wil (copresented with Gerben Meynen)'

Symposium ‘Vóór een zelfstandiger universiteit! Over de verhouding van universiteit en NWO’, Den Haag, 13-05-2011: 'De universiteiten in (en uit?) de houdgreep van NWO'

Guest lecture Seminar Utrecht Life Sciences ‘That Thing Called Science’, Utrecht, 15-04-2011: 'The commodification of academic research'

NIAS seminar, Wassenaar, 24-02-2011: 'Are we our brains? (panel presentation)'

Conference ‘Ontologies of artifacts’, Moscow, 15-11-2010: 'Why technologies are inherently normative'

Philosophy of Science Association, Montreal, 05-11-2010: 'Philosophical issues in scientific patenting'

Workshop ‘Blame, Praise, & Free Will’, Amsterdam, 27-09-2010: 'Neuroscience, causality and free will: a critique of Libet-type experiments from the viewpoint of philosophy of science (co-presented with Gerben Meynen)'

First Dutch-German workshop on philosophy of technology, Berlin, 26-08-2010: 'Comments on 'Information and knowledge in a codified world''

Humboldt Colloquium ‘Truth or profit? On the commodification of university and science’, Amsterdam, 26-11-2009: 'How to counter the commodification of academic research'

Thirteenth Workshop of the ‘Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology’, Ravenstein, 29-09-2009: 'The material realization and conceptual interpretation of observational processes'

Thirteenth Workshop of the ‘Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology’, Ravenstein, 28-09-2009: 'Cognitive approaches to philosophy of science and technology: introduction to the theme'

Symposium ‘Praktijkgericht wetenschappelijk onderzoek’, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, 04-09-2009: 'Is alle wetenschap praktijkwetenschap?'

Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, 09-07-2009: 'Have we just moved into the age of technoscience?'

Debat ‘Overleeft de filosofie de universitaire kenniseconomie?, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 07-05-2009: 'Economisering en disciplinering in het (filosofisch) onderwijs en onderzoek'

Workshop ‘Politics and Normativity in our Research’, TU Twente, Enschede, 18-03-2009: 'Critical philosophy of technology'

Kick-off Meeting ‘Things that make us smart: cognitive artifacts and extended minds’, Amsterdam, 24-02-2009: 'The significance of cognitive artifacts: experimentation and observation'

Guest lecture Department of Sociology and Philosophy, Exeter, 12-11-2008: 'Why technologies are inherently normative'

Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering, London, 11-11-2008: 'Have we just moved into the age of technoscience?'

4S/EASST Conference, Rotterdam, 23-08-2008: 'A deflated Mertonian critique of academic patenting'

Wheeler workshop, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 03-06-2008: 'Reconstructing the cognitive world: some critical questions'

Workshop ‘The Epochal Break Thesis’, ZiF, Bielefeld, 05-04-2008: 'Science and its history: from an epochal break to novel nonlocal patterns'

Research Colloquium Theoretische Philosophie, Universiteit Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 15-01-2008: 'How concepts both structure the world and abstract from it'

First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Madrid, 18-11-2007: 'Mertonian values, scientific norms, and the commercialisation of academic research'

Workshop 'Philosophy and Engineering', TU Delft, Delft, 30-10-2007: 'Why technologies are inherently normative'

Guest lecture London School of Economics, London, 16-10-2007: 'The material realization and conceptual interpretation of observational processes'

Guest lecture Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 15-10-2007: 'The material realization and conceptual interpretation of observational processes'

Conference ‘Science in the Context of Application’, ZiF, Bielefeld, 29-09-2007: 'The quality of academic research in an age of commodified science'

Conference 'Science, Technology and Innovation Studies in Amsterdam … and Beyond', Amsterdam, 02-07-2007: 'Mertonian values, scientific norms, and the commodification of academic research'

Workshop 'The Commodification of Academic Research', Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 23-06-2007: 'Mertonian values, scientific norms, and the commodification of academic research'

Workshop 'The Commodification of Academic Research', Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 21-06-2007: 'Introduction to the theme of the workshop'

Workshop on Commercialization and Commodification of Science, ZiF, Bielefeld, 11-06-2007: 'The continued significance of the Mertonian ethos of science'

Conference ‘Concepts and Emotions’, Antwerpen, 27-04-2007: 'How concepts both structure the world and abstract from it'

Guest lecture University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, Tokyo, 09-03-2007: 'How concepts both structure the world and abstract from it'

Guest lecture University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, Tokyo, 08-03-2007: 'Core notions for the philosophy of scientific experimentation'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, Tohoku University, Japan, Sendai, 06-03-2007: 'How concepts both structure the world and abstract from it'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, Tohoku University, Japan, Sendai, 05-03-2007: 'Core notions for the philosophy of scientific experimentation'

Guest lecture Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, 30-01-2007: 'Models of the science-technology relationship'

Workshop ‘Philosophy of the Technological Sciences’, Eindhoven, 19-01-2007: 'Are technologies intrinsically normative?'

Workshop ‘Philosophy of the Technological Sciences’, Eindhoven, 18-01-2007: 'Science, technology, and the science-technology relationship'

Najaarsvergadering Vereniging van Ethici in Nederland, Utrecht, 11-12-2006: 'Technologie en normativiteit'

Workshop ‘Perspectives on Scientific Practice from Science and the Science Studies’, Lorentz Center, Leiden, 27-11-2006: 'Nonlocal patterns and nonlocal meanings in the development of the sciences'

Seventh Workshop of the ‘Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology’,, Ravenstein, 24-11-2006: 'Referential realism revisited'

4S Conference, Vancouver, 03-11-2006: 'Critical philosophy of technology: the basic issues'

Institute of Philosophy, UNAM, Mexico City, 31-10-2006: 'How concepts both structure the world and abstract from it'

Institute of Philosophy, UNAM, Mexico City, 30-10-2006: 'Core notions for the philosophy of scientific experimentation'

Minisymposium, Faculteit Wijsbegeerte, VU, Amsterdam, 18-10-2006: 'The world observed/The world conceived: repliek aan Van Woudenberg, Buekens en Marres'

Derde Wetenschapsdag Anesthesiologie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 29-09-2006: 'De werkelijkheid van de wetenschap: objectief, subjectief of interactief?'

Filosofische gesprekskring Bloemendaal/Overveen, Bloemendaal, 20-04-2006: 'Notities over het onbehagen in het technisch-economische bestel'

Workshop ‘Science in the Context of Application: Structuring the Research Process’, Bielefeld, 27-02-2006: 'Science in the context of application: comments and projects'

Fifth Workshop of the ‘Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology’, Ravenstein, 01-12-2005: 'Technology and Theory in Experimental Science'

14th Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Delft, 20-07-2005: 'Semantic and ontological issues of technological design. Comments on the papers by Asger Eir and Per Galle'

Symposium ‘De commercialisering van de wetenschap’, Nijmegen, 16-06-2005: 'De commercialisering van de wetenschap: van oplossing naar probleem'

Symposium ‘Critical Approaches to Technology’, Amsterdam, 10-06-2005: 'Why technological artefacts have politics'

Postgraduate Finnish Summer School on ‘Philosophical Issues in Science and Technology Studies’, Helsinki, 03-06-2005: 'Normativity and/in science and technology studies'

Postgraduate Finnish Summer School on ‘Philosophical Issues in Science and Technology Studies’, Helsinki, 02-06-2005: 'Technology and theory in experimental science'

Conference ‘Identity: Ontological Perspectives’, Amsterdam, 26-05-2005: 'Identity and individuation: philosophically and scientifically'

Guest lecture Studentenpastoraat, Amsterdam, 26-04-2005: 'De werkelijkheid van de wetenschap: objectief, subjectief of interactief?'

Conference on STS (R)evolutions, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 19-03-2005: 'Technological artifacts do have politics'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 14-03-2005: 'Why technological artifacts do have politics'

WTMC Workshop, Ravenstein, 26-01-2005: 'Normativity and/in Science and Tecchnology Studies'

Philosophy of Science Association, Austin, 18-11-2004: 'Applying Science: Some Comments'

8ste lustrum Faculteit Wijsbegeerte VU, Amsterdam, 05-11-2004: 'Alles van waarde is nuttig. Over filosofie, praktijk en nut'

EIPE Seminar, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 01-11-2004: 'Observation, concepts and abstraction'

First GJSS Workshop on Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences, London School of Economics, London, 24-09-2004: 'Integrating history, sociology and philosophy of science and technology? Opportunities and problems'

Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, 10-05-2004: 'Experiment as the link between science and technology'

Derde Vlaams-Nederlands Congres voor Algemene en Speciale Wetenschapsfilosofie, Leusden, 15-04-2004: 'Psychologie, fysicalisme en echte fysica'

Derde Vlaams-Nederlands Congres voor Algemene en Speciale Wetenschapsfilosofie, Leusden, 14-04-2004: 'Een rigoreuze theorie van waarneembaarheid?'

Symposium over Integriteit, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 24-03-2004: 'De integriteit van de wetenschap en de wetenschapper'

Technology and Ethics Workshop, Twente University, Enschede, 30-01-2004: 'The role of technology in techno-ethics'

Oratie Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 21-11-2003: 'Wetenschap als koopwaar? Een filosofische kritiek'

International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo, 08-08-2003: 'A critique of the constructive empiricist notion of observability'

NVWF-Symposium 'Wetenschap en Technologie: een paar apart?', Amsterdam, 20-06-2003: 'Het experiment als schakel tussen wetenschap en technologie'

Hermeneutics and Science Conference, Tihany, 09-06-2003: 'Hermeneutic studies of science and technology in the last decades'

Hermeneutics and Science Conference, Tihany, 08-06-2003: 'How concepts both structure the world and abstract from it'

Onderzoeksmiddag Faculteit Wijsbegeerte, VU, Amsterdam, 11-04-2003: 'Over de materiële realisering en conceptuele interpretatie van waarnemingsprocessen'

Dibner-Israel Workshop 'Going Wrong and Making it Right', Egina, 05-04-2003: 'How to study experimental error'

Symposium 'De filosofie van het wetenschappelijk experimenteren', Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 29-03-2003: 'De filosofie van het wetenschappelijk experimenteren: repliek'

Symposium 'Ethics in Science', Wageningen UR, Wageningen, 28-11-2002: 'Assessing the commodification of science: The case of product patenting'

4S Conference, Milwaukee, 08-11-2002: 'How to patent the sun. A critique of the concept and practice of product patenting'

Openingsconferentie Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte VU, Elspeet, 06-09-2002: 'Over gender, wetenschap en technologie'

Conference on 'Technological Knowledge: Philosophical Reflections', Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, 14-06-2002: 'Detached thing knowledge: a commentary'

WTMC AIO-workshop, TU Twente, Enschede, 25-01-2002: 'Normativiteit in het wetenschaps- en technologie-onderzoek'

Guest lecture Sectie Filosofie, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, 10-12-2001: 'Filosofie en empirie'

WTMC Voortgangsconferentie, Leusden, 22-11-2001: 'Normativiteit in het wetenschaps- en technologie-onderzoek'

Studium Generale, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 21-11-2001: 'Commerciële wetenschap en het ideaal van een republikeinse universiteit'

Presentatie in Agnietenconvent, Gouda, 11-11-2001: 'Ethiek in DNA-debat onmisbaar'

Sociology of Science and Technology Network, ESA Conference, Helsinki, 30-08-2001: 'How to patent the sun. A critique of the concept and practice of product patenting'

Workshop on 'Normative, political and cultural aspects of human genetics', Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 21-08-2001: 'How to patent the sun. A critique of the concept and practice of product patenting'

Conference on 'Nature and Technology', Aberdeen, 11-07-2001: 'How to patent the sun. A critique of the concept and practice of product patenting'

Symposium 'Wetenschap, Natuur en Ethiek', Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, :, Amsterdam, 29-06-2001: 'Afscheid van de rationaliteit?!'

Conference on 'The epistemology of basic belief', Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 22-06-2001: 'Observation, conceptual interpretation, and basic beliefs'

Tweede Vlaams-Nederlands Congres voor Algemene en Speciale Wetenschapsfilosofie, Leusden, 19-05-2001: 'Hoe begrippen de werkelijkheid structureren èn ervan abstraheren'

Presentatie Filosofisch Café Felix & Sofie, Amsterdam, 08-05-2001: 'Patenteer de zon!'

WTMC-workshop 'Utopisme, postmodernisme en cultuurkritiek', Universiteit Twente, Enschede, 19-01-2001: 'De crypto-normativiteit voorbij: theoretisch en praktisch'

Philosophy of Science Association, 2000 Meeting, Vancouver, 04-11-2000: 'Primitive rays and aetherial air: On the impossibility of theory-free experiments'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax VA, 01-11-2000: 'Psychology, physicalism and real physics'

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax VA, 31-10-2000: 'Experimental reproducibility and its philosophical and social uses'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, 30-10-2000: 'Experimental reproducibility and its philosophical and social uses'

Academic Seminar 'Is nature ever evil, wrong or ugly'?, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 24-10-2000: 'Comments on Mary Midgley's 'Criticising the cosmos''

International workshop 'Towards a more developed philosophy of scientific experimentation', VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 16-06-2000: 'Technology and Theory in Experimental Science'

Facultaire Onderzoeksmiddag, Faculteit Wijsbegeerte, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 19-05-2000: 'Hoe begrippen de werkelijkheid structureren èn ervan abstraheren'

Symposium 'Explanatory Pluralism', VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 08-12-1999: 'Psychology, physicalism and real physics'

Guest lecture Vakgroep 'Geschiedenis en grondslagen van de natuurwetenschappen', Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, 19-11-1999: 'Philosophy and history of science: beyond the Kuhnian paradigm'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Reno, 27-10-1999: 'Normative issues in science, technology and society'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Reno, 26-10-1999: 'How concepts both structure the world and abstract from it'

4S Conference, San Diego, 29-09-1999: 'The secularization of science'

Finnish Society for Science Studies, Helsinki, 23-09-1999: 'A referentially realist epistemology for the experimental sciences: conceptual interpretation, material realization and formal correspondence'

Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 22-09-1999: 'How concepts both structure the world and abstract from it'

Onderzoeksgroep 'Sociale kennistheorie', Faculteit Wijsbegeerte, RU Groningen, Groningen, 20-05-1999: 'Conceptual and connectionist analyses of observation: A critical evaluation'

Alumni-studiedag, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 08-05-1999: 'Van Kuhn tot Latour, en verder'

Guest lecture Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, 18-11-1998: 'Een ontologie voor de empirische wetenschappen: lokale realiseringen, niet-lokale betekenissen en mensonafhankelijke potentialiteiten'

EASST Conference, Lissabon, 03-10-1998: 'After the moratorium: on abstraction and sociological meaning finitism'

Belgisch genootschap voor logica en wetenschapsfilosofie, Brussel, 14-02-1998: 'An ontology for the empirical sciences: local realizations, nonlocal meanings and human-independent potentialities'

Centrum Leo Apostel, Universiteit Gent, Gent, 13-02-1998: 'A referentially realist epistemology for the experimental sciences: conceptual interpretation, material realization and formal correspondence'

4S Conference, Tucson, 24-10-1997: 'Observation, neural networks and human agency'

Facultaire Onderzoeksmiddag, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 19-09-1997: 'Filosofie als theoretische, normatieve en reflexieve activiteit'

Conference on Hermeneutics and Natural Science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, 19-06-1997: 'Elements of a theory of (scientific) experience'

Studium Generale, Universiteit van Amsterdam, : ., Amsterdam, 27-02-1997: 'Objectiviteit en normativiteit in de wetenschap'

NIAS Philosophy Group, Wassenaar, Wassenaar, 17-02-1997: 'Conceptual and connectionist accounts of observation: a critical evaluation'

EASST/4S Conference, Bielefeld, 10-10-1996: 'Knowledge and power: beyond classical and postmodern epistemology'

NIAS Philosophy Group, Wassenaar, Wassenaar, 07-10-1996: 'Philosophy and history of science: beyond the Kuhnian paradigm'

Guest lecture Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 27-06-1996: 'An ontology for the empirical sciences: local realizations, nonlocal meanings and human-independent potentialities'

Conference on 'Images and Reality', Miskolc, 14-06-1996: 'Three forms of nonrepresentational realism'

AIO-workshop 'Op weg naar een duurzame samenleving', Onderzoeksschool 'Wetenschap, Technologie, en Moderne Cultuur', Enschede, 10-05-1996: 'Constructivisme en normativiteit'

Workshop 'Experiments: Their Meaning and Variety', Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, 30-03-1996: 'Issues in the (philosophical) study of experiment'

Facultair Colloquium, VU, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 15-12-1995: 'Een ontologie voor de empirische wetenschappen: lokale realiseringen, niet-lokale betekenissen en mensonafhankelijke potentialiteiten'

Symposium 'Natuur: criterium of constructie?', Utrecht, 29-09-1995: 'De natuurlijke referenten en de cultuurlijke betekenissen van wetenschappelijke kennis'

Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, 19-08-1995: 'The appropriate realization of technology'

International Conference on 'Hermeneutics and Natural Science', Leusden, 14-07-1995: 'History and philosophy of science: beyond the Kuhnian paradigm'

Kuhn workshop, Onderzoeksschool 'Wetenschap, Technologie en Moderne Cultuur', Enschede, 02-02-1995: 'Wetenschapsgeschiedenis, wetenschapsfilosofie en de kuhniaanse wending'

4S Conference, New Orleans, 12-10-1994: 'How science and technology studies and philosophy of science and technology might benefit each other'

EASST Conference, Budapest, 30-08-1994: 'The appropriate realization of technology'

Werkgroep Wetenschapsonderzoek, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, 24-03-1994: 'De geëigende realisering van technologie'

Guest lecture Vakgroep Wetenschaps- en technologiedynamika, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 25-02-1994: 'Normative issues and/in science and technology studies'

International Conference on 'Issues in Agricultural Bioethics', University of Nottingham (co-presenter: Joske Bunders), Nottingham, 15-09-1993: 'The appropriate realization of agricultural biotechnology'

Science and Technology Dynamics Conference, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 23-06-1993: 'Experimenting in the natural sciences: A philosophical approach'

Congres voor algemene en speciale wetenschapsfilosofie, Leusden, Leusden, 15-05-1993: 'Experimenting in the natural sciences: A philosophical approach'

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 14-04-1993: 'Experimental reproducibility and the experimenters' regress'

Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Chicago, 30-10-1992: 'Experimental reproducibility and the experimenters' regress'

Openingsconferentie Fakulteit de Wijsbegeerte VU, Den Haag, 25-09-1992: 'Vrouwen- versus mannenkultuur: mannelijk en/of vrouwelijk kennen'

Studiedag 'Toegepaste filosofie in de praktijk', Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen, Wageningen, 20-12-1991: 'Normatieve reflecties op constructivistische benaderingen van wetenschap en technollogie'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, Polytechnical Institute, Boekarest, 18-10-1991: 'The material realization of science: experimentation and scientific realism'

Guest lecture Institute of Philosophy, Romanian Academy, Boekarest,, 17-10-1991: 'Experimentation, realization, and reality'

Meeting on 'Social Epistemology and Social Theory of Science', Uppsala, 12-08-1991: 'Normative reflexions on constructionist approaches to science and technology'

Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, 09-08-1991: 'The experimenters' regress reconsidered'

Studentenvereniging 'Petrus Plancius', Amsterdam, 20-02-1991: 'Instrumentele versus communicatieve rationaliteit?'

Workshop 'Filosofisch wetenschapsonderzoek', Technische Universiteit Twente, Enschede, 07-02-1991: 'Een nieuw experimenteel realisme?'

Studium Generale, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 06-02-1991: 'Wat is objektiviteit in de wetenschap?'

Workshop on 'Social Epistemology', Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, 28-11-1990: 'Realism and social epistemology'

Conference on 'Technological Development and Science in the 19th and 20th Century', Eindhoven, 06-11-1990: 'Experimentation and the possibility of scientified technology'

Conference on 'Rediscovering Skills', Bath, 15-09-1990: 'The material realization of experimental science and technology'

NWO-werkgemeenschap Wetenschapsfilosofie, Utrecht, 26-06-1990: 'Vijf stellingen rondom realisme'

Conference on 'Table Top Experiments', University of Toronto, Toronto, 24-03-1990: 'How to analyze the stability of experiments?'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy of Nature, Eötvös University, Budapest, 13-10-1989: 'Heuristics and the generalized correspondence principle'

Guest lecture Hungarian Philosophy of Science Association, Budapest, 12-10-1989: 'The material realization of science: experimentation and scientific realism'

Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, 05-04-1989: 'Heuristics and the generalized correspondence principle'

4S/EASST Conference, Amsterdam, 19-11-1988: 'Will there be room for normative inputs in the study of science and technology in the 1990s?'

Vakgroep Wetenschapsonderzoek, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, 09-11-1988: 'Twee modellen voor de relatie tussen wetenschap en technologie'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, 24-03-1988: 'The material realization of science: experimentation and scientific realism'

Guest lecture Department of Philosophy, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, 22-03-1988: 'Two models for the science-technology relationship'

Annual meeting of the "Midwest Junto" for the history of science, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, 19-03-1988: 'The correspondence principle and the rise of modern quantum theory'

Guest lecture ICS, Toronto, Toronto, 11-03-1988: 'Knowledge and power: two models for the science-technology relationship'

Guest lecture IHPST, University of Toronto, Toronto, 10-03-1988: 'Kramers and the Forman theses: the rise of quantum mechanics and the social explanation of scientific knowledge'

Studium Generale Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, 18-05-1987: 'Realisme, anti-realisme en non-realisme'

Werkgemeenschap Wetenschapsonderzoek, Amsterdam, 28-04-1987: 'Coreferaat bij "Feministische analyses van wetenschap"'

4S Conference, Pittsburgh, 25-10-1986: 'Experiment, technology and the intrinsic connection between knowledge and power'

Landelijke werkgroep 'Grondslagen van de natuurkunde', Amsterdam, 12-06-1986: 'Het meetprobleem in de kwantummechanika'

Studium Generale UvA, Amsterdam, 25-04-1986: 'Habermas en de rationaliteitskrisis in de natuurwetenschappen'

Studium Generale VU, Amsterdam, 23-04-1986: 'Verklaren en interpreteren: Jürgen Habermas en de moderne wetenschapstheorie'

Conferentie 'Wetenschap en ideologie', Leusden, 28-02-1986: 'Kennis versus of kennis via ideologie: Over Weimarfysika en kernenergie'

Kring wetenschapsfilosofie, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 25-10-1985: 'Wetenschap en werkelijkheid'

Bohrsymposium Nederlnadse Natuurkundige Vereniging, Utrecht, 15-10-1985: 'Niels Bohr en de gedachtenexperimenten'

Conference 'The uses of experiment', Bath, 01-09-1985: 'Testing and persuasion in science and technology'

NVON-congres, Nijmegen, 23-08-1985: 'Het korrespondentieprincipe en de overgang van de oude naar de nieuwe kwantummechanika'

Krisissymposium 'Wetenschap, orde en macht', Amsterdam, 31-05-1985: 'Kennis en macht in het kernenergiedebat'

Stafcolloquium Centrale Interfaculteit, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 01-05-1985: 'Natuurwetenschap en werkelijkheid'

Guest lecture Vakgroep wetenschapstheorie, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 03-11-1982: 'Een'

Guest lecture Vakgroep toegepaste sociologie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 26-06-1981: 'Enkele kanttekeningen bij de wetenschapstheorie van Roy Bhaskar'

Filosofiedag, Rotterdam, 20-09-1980: 'Habermas en Bhaskar: transcendentaal pragmatisme versus transcendentaal realisme'

Lectures and Presentations