Uskali Mäki

Activities

2020

Stanford, USA. Inaugural David M. Kreps Symposium on Is Homo Economics dead? Dying? Should he die? Invited. POSTPONED to 8 November 2020.

Bologna, Italy. Event on interdisciplinarity. Invited. 1-3 July 2020.

Toulouse, France. Examination of Sina Badiei's PhD thesis, 15 June 2020.

Durham, UK. Workshop on Theory and evidence in light of the dynamics of the scientific community. Invited. 23-24 April 2020. POSTPONED.

Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Visit for the month of March. POSTPONED.

Ghent, Belgium. Seminar. 6-7 February 2020.

2019

Paris, France. Seminar at Cercle d’épistémologie économique, Paris I Sorbonne. 10 December 2019.

Lyon and Saint Etienne, France. Visiting Professor. 26 November - 20 December 2019. Seminars at Gate 28 November; Triangle 2 December; Lyon3 12 December; ENS 16 December.

Helsinki, Finland. Contribution to TINT's event on The Economics and Philosophy of Plumbing: Economics Nobel Prize 2019. 25 November 2019.

Helsinki, Finland. Economic research and economic policy making. Invited talk at the 40th Anniversary symposium of Pellervo Economic Research Institute. 20 November 2019.

Helsinki, Finland. The Future of Science Advice in Europe. Academy of Science and Letters. Invited. 13 November 2019.

Helsinki, Finland. Talk on the economics profession. Economics Student Union. Invited. 5 November 2019.

Groningen, The Netherlands. Invited contribution to workshop on the Ontology of Money. 1-2 November 2019.

Porto, University of Porto, Portugal. Avant-Conference: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies. Keynote lecture. 25-27 October 2019.

Berlin, Humboldt Universität, Germany. Invited speaker at symposium on Interdisciplinarity Revisited, organised by Volkswagen Stiftung. 3-4 October 2019.

Uppsala, Sweden. Symposium at Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society, Uppsala University. Invited talk on interdisciplinarity. 24 September 2019.

Warsaw, Poland. Annual conference of European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE). Paper on games, toys and disciplinary conventions. 12-15 September 2019.

Helsinki, Finland. INEM [International Network for Economic Method] conference. Panel on the past and future of economic methodology. 18 August 2019.

Helsinki, Finland. Invited contribution to JEM workshop on the past and future of economic methodology. 18 August 2019.

Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. Green think tank workshop on money and power. Invited talk on homo economicus. 17 August 2019.

Prague, Czech Republic. Congress of Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST). Paper on interdisciplinarity. 5-10 August 2019.

Prague, Czech Republic. Workshop on idealizations. Invited talk. 12-14 June 2019.

Tianjin, Nankai University, China. Roundtable panel discussion on the functions of the philosophy of the social sciences. With Alban Bouvier, Daniel Little, Paul Roth, and Francesco Di Iorio. 4 June 2019.

Tianjin, Nankai University, China. Asian Network for Philosophy of Social Sciences (ANPOSS) inaugural conference. Keynote lecture. 1-2 June 2019.

Tianjin, Nankai University, China. Visiting Professor. Lectures on scientific realism, idealisation in modelling, scientific imperialism. 6 May — 7 June 2019.

Poznan, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland. Conference on New Economy and New Economics. Keynote lecture. 25-26 April 2019.

2018

Mexico City, UNAM, Institute of Philosophy, Mexico. Seminar on toy models. 11 December 2018.

San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Ibero-American Society for Economic Methodology (SIAME) conference. Keynote lecture on modelling failure. 6-7 December 2018.

Bayreuth, Bayreuth Universität, Germany. Guest lecture on economics imperialism. 27 November 2018.

Keynote. 4th International Conference "Economic Philosophy". Lyon, 27-29 June 2018.

Talk: "Asymmetries in interdisciplinarity." STS Symposium 2018. University of Tampere, Finland, 14-15 June 2018.

Invited talk: "Accessing the past: challenges of representation, evidence, and interdisciplinarity in historical sciences". 43rd Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference. University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 30 May - 2 June 2018.

Invited talk: "Toys, models, toy models." Models as Fictions? On Modeling in Economics, Political Science and Legal Theory. Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, 21-22 May 2018.

Invited talk: "Sustainability science: its disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity." Sustainability Science Days 2018. University of Helsinki, 16-17 May 2018.

Invited talk: "Still chasing the essence of economics." Philosophy of Economics: 20 Years is Nothing. Celebrating Two Decades of Collaboration Between Uskali Mäki and the Madrid Group of Philosophy of Economics. Madrid, 7 May 2018.

Invited talk: "Asymmetries in interdisicplinarity". The Pufendorf IAS Symposium on Interdisciplinarity. University of Lund, Sweden, 4 May 2018.

2017

Keynote on the Methodology of Contemporary Economics. 6th Latin American Conference of the History of Economic Thought. University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 29-30 November 2017.

Welcome address. "Law and Economics: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions of Interdisciplinarity" workshop. Helsinki, 9 November 2017.

Invited lecture on interdisciplinarity. Sustainability science Master's program, course "Sustainability Science Concepts". Helsinki, 1 November 2017.

Chairing a panel on freedom of art, science, and religion. Helsinki Book Fair 2017. Helsinki, 27 October 2017.

Co-organizer, Opening talk "Highly unrealistic models: their (un)realisticness and their functions". What to make of highly unrealistic models? Helsinki, 12-13 October 2017.

Panel discussion on the impact of SSH fields. Researchers' Night. Helsinki, 29 September 2017.

Invited talk on the Philosophy of Economics. Workshop on the Philosophy of Economics. Nankai University, 25-26 September 2017.

Talk on Interdisciplinarity. EPSA17. University of Exeter, 6-9 September 2017.

Talk on Models. Models and Explanations in Economics. University of Rostock, 1-2 July 2017.

Keynote on Interdisciplinarity. Sustainability Science Centre. Helsinki, 10 May 2017.

Talk on post-autistic economics. Bologna, 5 May 2017.

EIPE 20th anniversary conference: Chair, "The Role of Economists"; Talk, "Economics imperialism: Further expansions". Erasmus University Rotterdam, 22-23 March.

Invited Roundtable speaker: Interdisciplinary thinking; External Advisory Board Consultant for the Coordination Council of College F3 (Food, Farming, Forestry). University of Lisbon, 23 January.

Interdisciplinary Futures: Open the Social Sciences 20 Years Later. Organizer; Opening words; Chairing of keynote sessions and final panel; Talk, "Opening outwards: Interdisciplinarity as intellectual imperialism"; Talk with Mikko Salmela, "Emotional tensions in interdisciplinary interaction". Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 19-20 January.

The Science Forum 2017: Member of the organizational committee; Chair, session "Tieteen, taiteen ja uskonnon vapaus: samaa vai eri maata?"; Panelist, session "Valinnan vapaus ja sen rajat". Helsinki, 11-15 January 2017.

2016

Chair and opening the symposium Current Trends in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences III. Helsinki, 8 December 2016.

Invited talk on the philosophy of Hilary Putnam at the seminar of Philosophical Society of Finland: "Realismi, tiede ja yhteiskunta. Hilary Putnamit ja me muut". Putnamin kaiut Suomessa (The Echoes of Putnam in Finland). Helsinki, 30 November 2016.

Public examination of a PhD thesis by Stefan Mendritzki. Eindhoven University of Technology, 29 November 2016.

Talks in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. 9-24 November 2016.

Talk on modelling at the Bank of Poland. Warsaw, 21 October 2016.

Keynote on value of science: "Tieteen ja yhteiskunnan uusi liitto: miten käy tieteen (ja yhteiskunnan)". Annual meeting of The Finnish Society of Forest Science. Helsinki, 19 October 2016.

Keynote lecture: "On the philosophy of interdisciplinarity". Steps towards Helsinki Sustainability Science Centre. Helsinki, 12 October 2016.

Invited talk on value of science: "Eikö yhteiskunta ymmärrä arvostaa mahtavinta instituutiotaan? Diagnoosin elkeitä". Mihin tiedettä tarvitaan - tutkimusta maailman parhaaksi vai verovarojen tuhlausta? Helsinki, 5 October 2016.

Keynote talk on scientific imperialism. South African Philosophy Spring Colloquium. University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1-2 October 2016.

Seminar talk: "Cracks in the public appreciation for science and how to diagnose them". University of Johannesburg, 30 September 2016.

Visit to University of Johannesburg, 25 September - 3 October 2016.

Public examination of a PhD thesis by Luis Mireles Flores. Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 2 September 2016.

Talk: "Discovery by interdisciplinarity". Building Theories: Hypotheses & Heuristics in Science. Rome, 17-18 June 2016.

Talk: "Models as isolations: the MISS account contextualized, defended and refined". 3rd International Conference Economic Philosophy. Aix-en-Provence, 15-16 June 2016.

Invited lectures on Interdisciplinarity. Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 16-19 May 2016.

EPSA (European Philosophy of Science Association) Steering Committee Meeting. München, 9 - 10 May 2016.

Invited talk on Interdisciplinarity and Models: "What might models tell about the world? How they succeed - and fail". Sustainability Science Center, Helsinki, 4 May 2016.

Invited talk on Value of Science: "Tiede ja sen auktoriteetti ahtaalla: kukkulan kuningasta tönitään nyt monelta taholta, yhteiskunnan yleiseksi vahingoksi". Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Helsinki, 13 April 2016.

Commentary on Hasok Chang (Cambridge): "Realism as a pragmatist doctrine, or how to make realism more realistic." Helsinki, 1 April 2016.

Invited talk on Value of Science: "Tiede ahtaalla: Miksi ihmeessä mahtavin instituutiomme joutuu puolustuskannalle?" Tieteessä tapahtuu -foorumi III: ”Kaiken maailman dosentit” – onko tieteen arvostus heikkenemässä?. Helsinki, 14 March 2016.

Conference on Scientism 2016: Common Sense. Amsterdam, 25-27 February 2016. Talk on Science Versus Common Sense.

Skills of Economy: Artistic Research and Philosophy of Science. Helsinki, 22 February 2016. Talk and comments on artistic research.

2015

2nd Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Group in India. Mumbai, India, 19-21 December 2015. Keynote.

PSGI Workshop on Current Debates in Philosophy of Science: Realism, Biology and Social Sciences . Mumbai, India, 14-18 December 2015. Invited talk.

Raimo Tuomela 75 Anniversary Workshop. Helsinki, Finland, 11 December 2015. Invited talk, "Semi-Ramistic Realism".

Workshop by INTREPID. Lisbon, Portugal, 25-27 November 2015. Invited talk, "Configurations and conundrums of interdisciplinarity".

XII. Conference of the International Network for Economic Method. Cape Town, South Africa, 19-22 November 2015. Talk on issues of prediction in economics.

Johannesburg, South Africa, 13-18 November 2015.

Studia Generalia. Helsinki, Finland, 15 October 2015. "Homo Economicus: aikamme ihmismuotti?" [Homo Economicus: the mould in which humans are cast in our time?]

Conference of European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA). Duesseldorf, Germany, 23-26 September 2015.

Annual Conference of European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE). Genova, Italy, 17-19 September 2015. Panel on computational modelling.

Workshop on Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts. Munich, Germany, 10-11 September 2015. Invited talk, "Scientific imperialism. Definitional and normative issues".

15th Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (CLMPS). Helsinki, Finland, 3-8 August 2015. Invited talk, "Modelling failure".

Metaphysics of Science Summer School (MoSSS) and Workshop. Helsinki, Finland, 22-26 July 2015.

Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Fifth Biennial Conference. Aarhus, Denmark, 24-26 June 2015.

3rd International Scientific Conference "Economy, culture, values: Metaeconomics" . Gdańsk, Poland, 18-19 June 2015. Keynote, "Scientific realism and economics: might they match?"

Workshop on Investigating Interdisciplinary Practice: Methodological Challenges. Helsinki, Finland, 15-17 June 2015. Workshop organizer.

COST Action: Interdisciplinarity in research programming and funding cycles (INTREPID). Brussels, Belgium, 28-29 April 2015. Member of Management Committee.

Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science: Third Annual Meeting. Helsinki, Finland 23-24 April 2015. Member of the Local organizing committee.

Workshop on Scientific Imperialism. Helsinki, Finland, 15-17 April 2015. "Scientific Imperialism: What Is It? What to Make of It?"

Unity of Science and Interdisciplinarity: How to Think Interdisciplinarity. Lisbon, Portugal, 13 March 2015. Invited talk, "Interdisciplinarity: What a confusingly complex set of issues!"

Lappeenranta University of Technology. Lappeenranta, Finland, 18 February 2015. Invited talk, "Issues of interdisciplinarity: An introduction".

2014

Taru Tutkimusten Herrasta - Miten arvokas tieto määritellään, ja kenellä on siihen oikeus?. Helsinki, Finland, 10 December 2014. Chair of panel discussion, "Miten arvokas tieto määritellään, ja kenellä on siihen oikeus?"

1st biannual DENVI workshop. Helsinki, Finland, 5 December 2014. Invited talk, "Research process in interdisciplinary environmental research".

Fifth Meeting of the Workshop on the Market and Marketization. Kirkkonummi, Finland, 15-16 November 2014. Workshop organizer.

ERC Review Panel Meeting. Brussels, Belgium, 14-16 October 2014.

Inaugural conference of WINIR. London, UK, 13-14 September 2014. Session organiser, "Special Session on the Social Institutions of Social Science"

ENPOSS. Madrid, Spain, 11-12 September 2014. Keynote, "Scientific Imperialism: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".

Seminar at the University of Pretoria. Pretoria, South Africa, 14 August 2014.

Seminar at the University of Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, South Africa, 13 August 2014.

Seminar at the University of Pretoria. Pretoria, South Africa, 12 August 2014.

New Thinking about Scientific Realism. Cape Town, South Africa, 5-9 August 2014. Invited talk, "Scientific Realism and the Social Sciences".

Interdisciplinary Colloquium lecture at Flensburg University. Flensburg, Germany, 21-23 July 2014. "Interdisciplinarity: complexities and conundrums".

Toward a More Integrative View on Modelling, Experimenting and Simulating (Workshop). Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 June 2014. "Issues of truth in modelling".

ERC Review Panel Meeting. Brussels, Belgium, 23-25 June 2014.

17th International Conference Economics of Infrastructures. Delft, Netherlands, 22-26 May 2014. "Interdisciplinarity: Cleaning Up the Mess".

1st biannual DENVI workshop - Research process and a research plan in interdisciplinary environmental research. University of Helsinki, Finland, 19 May 2014. Lecture on Interdisciplinarity.

Ihminen ja Kosmos: Kohti täydellistä [Man and Cosmos: Towards perfection]. Kuhmo, Finland, 21-22 March 2014. Invited speaker.

2013

IX Annual Estonian Philosophy Conference. Tallinn University of Technology, 13-14 December 2013. Keynote on "Philosophy of interdisciplinarity: A manifesto".

International Conference on New Political Science and Philosophy. University of Havana, 19-22 November 2013. "Scientific imperialism: the good, the bad, and the ugly".

2 Congreso Nacional de Investigacion Economica, Mexico City
- UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, 11 November 2013, keynote on "Economics and interdisciplinarity".
- El Colegio de México, 12 November 2013, keynote on "How can unrealistic models be true?"
- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 13 November 2013, keynote on "Economic crisis and the alleged failure of economics as a modeling malfunction".
- UNAM, Facultad de Economía, 14 November 2013, keynote on "Economics as an expansive discipline".

EAEPE Annual Conference. Paris, France, 7. – 9.11.2013. EAEPE Council meeting; Organizing sessions on the methodology of economics. Paper on "What drives interdisciplinarity".

4th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA). Helsinki, Finland, 28. – 31.8.2013, Chair of local organising committee, Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

Fiction and its Use. (workshop) Bielefeld, Germany, 4. – 6.7.2013, Invited speaker, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University.

11th Conference of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM). Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 13. – 15.6.2013, “Models as isolations: Responses, remarks, refinements“, Erasmus Institute for Economics and Philosophy (EIPE), Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Economy, culture, values: Heinrich Rickert at 150. (conference), Gdańsk, Poland, 15. – 17.5.2013, Keynote speaker “Modelling the Economy: Shedding Light, Casting Shadows”, Gdańsk University of Technology.

Les Après-midi de Philosophie et Economie [Philosophy and Economics afternoons]. (seminar) Paris, France, 18.4.2013, Invited speaker, “Vaihingerian realism: how fictions help access the world”, Pôle d’Histoire de l’Analyse et des Représentations Economiques (PHARE) [History Centre for Economic Analysis and Representations], Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

From False Models to Truth. (workshop) Bern, Switzerland, 10.4.2013, Invited speaker, “How to be a Realist about Falsehood in Models”, Universität Bern.

Philosophy of Economics Research Forum. Bayreuth, Germany, 4. – 7.2.2013, Speaker, “Economics and the Current Crisis: A Modelling Failure?” and “Vaihingerian realism”, University of Bayreuth

Philosophical and Historical Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity: Beyond the 'Two Cultures' Debate. (workshop) Helsinki, Finland, 1. – 2.2.2013, Speaker, ” Interdisciplinary Give and Take: Generalizable Dynamics with Illustrations from the Case of Economics”, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.

2012

Measurement of Social and Behavioral Properties in Economics. (workshop) Rovaniemi, Finland, 14. – 15.12.2012, Chair, Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. [Programme]

Greek Philosophy of Science Association Conference. Athens, Greece, 29.11. – 1.12.2012, Keynote speaker, “Economics and the Current Crisis: A Modelling Failure?”

Dictatorship of Failure: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the European Political and Economic Crisis. (symposium) Helsinki, Finland, 15. – 16.11.2012, Keynote speaker, “The Risky Business of Modelling – Or, the Alleged Failure of Economic Expertise as a Failure of Epistemic Risk Management”, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki. [Full lecture video]

Neurogambling. (workshop) Helsinki, Finland, 8.11.2012, Chair, Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. [Programme]

24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE): Economic Policy in Times of Crisis. Krakow, Poland, 17. – 21.10.2012, Session organiser, “Economics and interdisciplinary traffic: in and out”, Cracow University of Economics. [Programme]

What is Interdisciplinary Success. (conference) Lund, Sweden, 4. – 5.10.2012, Speaker “Interdisciplinarity and scientific progress “, Lund University. [Programme and abstracts]

Current Trends in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. (symposium) Helsinki, Finland, 20.9.2012, Chair, “Scientific Imperialism: Issues of Progress and Unity in (Social) Science”, Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. [Programme]

Conceptual Change. (workshop) Helsinki, Finland, 22. – 24.8.2012, Speaker “Conceptual change across disciplinary boundaries”, Finnish Cultural Foundation Workshop in Science.
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Models and Simulations, 5th Conference. Helsinki, Finland, 14. – 16.6.2012, Chair, “Economic Models”, Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

Foundations of Institutional Economics. Privas, France, 25. – 28.5.2012, Invited speaker.

10th Conference of the International Network for Economic Methodology (INEM). St Petersburg, Russia, 16.5.2012, Chair, “Conceptual market imperialism”, Center for Study of Economic Culture, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University.

Launch of Agora for Interdisciplinary Debate (AID). Helsinki, Finland, 7.5.2012, Chair of organising committee, “Interdisciplinarity, philosophy of science, and AID “, Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

The Market and Marketization, 4th Workshop. Kirkkonummi, Finland, 4. – 5.5.2012, Chair of organising committee, Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

Scientific Imperialism and Scientific Progress. (lecture) Vienna, Austria, 29.3.2012, University of Vienna.

Biological Markets and Social Dilemmas. Leiden, Holland, 15. – 20.1.2012, Invited speaker, Lorentz Centre.

Talous [The Economy]. Helsinki, Finland, 10. – 11.1.2012, Invited speaker.

2011

3rd European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) Conference. Athens, Greece, 5. – 8.10.2011, Session organiser, “On the performance of the performativity thesis”, University of Athens.

23rd Annual European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Conference: Schumpeter's Heritage, the Evolution of the Theory of Evolution. Vienna, Austria, 27. – 30.10.2011, Session organiser, “Diagnosing the alleged failure of economics as a modelling failure”, Technische Universität Wien.

Economic Models: Their Nature and Significance. Norwich, England, 24.9.2011, Invited speaker, University of East Anglia.

The Market and Marketization, 3rd Workshop. Kirkkonummi, Finland, 5. – 6.9.2011, Chair, “Biological markets”, TINT, University of Helsinki.

9th Conference of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM). Helsinki, Finland, 1. – 3.9.2011, Chair of local organising committee, “Recent accounts of economics imperialism”, TINT, University of Helsinki.

World Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (LMPS). Nancy, France, 19. – 26.7.2011, Invited speaker, Nancy University.

3rd Biennial Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Conference. Exeter, England, 24. – 26.6.2011, Speaker, University of Exeter.

Sociology of the Social Sciences, 1945 – 2010. Copenhagen, Denmark, 9.6.2011, Invited speaker.

Realism in its Multiple Forms. Helsinki, Finland, 6. – 9.6.2011, Invited speaker, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.

G. H. von Wrightin Explanation and Understandng 40 vuotta myöhemmin [G. H. von Wright’s Explanation and Understanding 40 years later]. (symposium) Helsinki, Finland, 29.4.2011.

Social Science and Sustainable Consumption. Helsinki, Finland, 27. – 29.4.2011, Invited speaker, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.

Interdisciplinary Exchange as the Object of Philosophical Inquiry. (symposium) Helsinki, Finland, 3. – 4.3.2011, Co-organiser and invited speaker, TINT and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.

Ymmärrys [Understanding]. Turku, Finland, 10. – 11.1.2011, Invited speaker.

The Market and Marketization, 2nd Workshop. Kirkkonummi, Finland, 7. – 8.1.2011, Chair of organising committee, TINT, University of Helsinki.

2010

22nd Annual European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Conference: The Economic Crisis and the Renewal of the European Model(s), Revisiting the Debate on Varieties of Capitalism. Bordeaux, France, 28. – 30.10.2010, Session organiser, “Diagnosing the crisis of economics as a modelling failure”, University of Bordeaux. [Programme]

Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) Conference: Economics Made Fun in the Face of the Economic Crisis. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 10. – 11.12.2010, Invited speaker, “On the philosophy of the new kiosk economics of everything”, Jack Vromen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) N. Emrah Aydinonat (Ankara University & Bogazici University).

Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) 22nd Biennial Meeting. Montréal, Canada, 4. – 6.11.2010, “Vaihingerian realism”, Philosophy of Science Association. [Programme]

Modelling in the Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary Comparison. Helsinki, Finland, 17. – 18.6.2010, Opponent, Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki.

POS/TINT Summer Workshop. Helsinki, Finland, 15.6.2010, Chair of organising committee, TINT, University of Helsinki.

Realism, Symmetry and Performativity in Management Theory. Lund, Sweden, 1.6.2010, Speaker, Institute of Economic Research, Lund University.

The Market and Marketization, 1st Workshop. Kirkkonummi, Finland, 9. – 10.4.2010, Chair of organising committee, “Issues of Interdisciplinarity”, TINT, University of Helsinki.

Models, Simulations and the Reduction of Complexity. (conference) Hamburg, Germany, 18. – 19.3.2010, “Economic modelling as theoretical experimentation and surrogate reasoning”, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg.

Suomen filosofisen yhdistyksen oikeus-kollokvio [Philosophical Society of Finland Colloqium on Justice]. Helsinki, Finland, 7. – 8.1.2010, ”Idealisoivien (myös oikeudenmukaisuutta ja oikeutusta koskevien filosofisten) teorioiden oikeutuksesta” [On justifying idealising theories (including philosophival theories concerning justice and entitlement)], Suomen filosofinen yhdistys.

For activities 1988 – 2009, see the activities archive.