Univ.-Prof. Tarja Knuuttila, MSc M.Soc.Sc PhD
Tarja Knuuttila
Summer term 2024
Winter term 2023

Knuuttila, T, Johansson, H & Carrillo, N 2024, Abstraction as Material Translation: An Artistic Reflection of (Re)Presentation. in C Ambrosio & J Sánchez-Dorado (eds), Abstraction in Science and Art Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Routledge Research in Aesthetics.


Loettgers, A & Knuuttila, T 2024, Synthetic Models in Biology. in The Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling . Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Knuuttila, T 2024, The Artifactual Account of Modeling. in The Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling . Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Knuuttila, T, Carrillo, N & Koskinen, R (eds) 2024, The Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling. Routledge, Taylor & Francis.










Carrillo, N & Knuuttila, T 2021, An Artifactual Perspective on Idealization: Constant Capacitance and the Hodgkin and Huxley Model: Constant Capacitance and the Hodgkin and Huxley Model. in A Cassini & J Redmond (eds), Models and Idealizations in Science: Fictional and Artifactual Approaches. Springer International Publishing AG , Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, no. 1, vol. 50, pp. 51-70. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65802-1

Knuuttila, T 2021, Models, Fictions, and Artefacts. in WJ Gonzalez (ed.), Language and Scientific Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 199-220.

Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2020, Magnetized Memories: Analogies and Templates in Model Transfer. in S Holm & M Serban (eds), Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology: Living Machines?. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 123-140. <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351212243-9/magnetized-memories-tarja-knuuttila-andrea-loettgers>



Transdisciplinary Model Templates: The Many Applications of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

30 Nov 2023

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Disruption or Convergence? Cognition Redistributed Between the Biological and the Artificial

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Johannes Jäger (Invited speaker)

17 Oct 2023

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The Combinatorial Possibilities of Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

20 Sep 202323 Sep 2023

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Model Templates and Multiple Realizability

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

5 Jun 2023

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Abstraction as Material Translation

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Natalia Carrillo (Invited speaker)

18 Apr 2023

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Surrogate Reasoning: An Artifactual Approach

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

23 Jan 2023

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Modelling and Surrogate Reasoning

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

30 Nov 2022

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Surrogate Reasoning: Representational and Artefactual Approaches

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

30 Sep 2022

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The Combinatorial Possibilities of Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

31 Aug 2022

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Surrogative Reasoning: An Artifactual Approach

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

17 Aug 202219 Aug 2022

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Models as Epistemic Artifacts for Scientific Reasoning: A Perspective from Science Education

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Marvin Rost (Invited speaker)

4 Aug 2022

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Surrogative Reasoning: An Artefactual Approach

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

21 Jun 2022

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The Combinatorial Possibilities of Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

26 May 2022

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Transdisciplinary Model Templates: Application and Entanglement

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

23 Apr 2022

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Abstraction is (Much) More than Omission: Alon's Network Motifs Reconsidered

Andrea Loettgers (Speaker) & Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

11 Nov 2021

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(Un)Easily Possible Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

11 Nov 2021

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Idealization and De-Idealization in Economics and Beyond

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

24 Sep 2021

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Heimburg-Jackson Model: A Non-Mechanist Challenge to the Hodgkin-Huxley Model

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Natalia Carrillo Martinez de la Escalera (Speaker)

15 Sep 202118 Sep 2021

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Ontological Agnosticism about Topological Explanations

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

15 Sep 202118 Sep 2021

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Success or not? Two models of collective phenomena

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

7 Jul 2021

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Transdisciplinary Template Application: The Kuramoto Model

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

Jul 2021

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Evolutionary Innovations: Explorations of Immense Libraries or Adjacent Empty Niches?

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

16 Jun 2021

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Evolutionary Innovations: Explorations of Immense Libraries or Adjacent Empty Niches?

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

3 Jun 2021

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Synthetic Biology In Between the Actual, Virtual – And Fictional

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

19 Mar 2021

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In Sync Across Disciplines: A Computational Approach to Template Transfer

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Andrea Loettgers (Speaker) & Maximilian Noichl (Speaker)

Mar 2021

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How to Understand Scientific Modeling: A Case from Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

27 Jan 2021

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Ontological agnosticism about topological explanations

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

2 Dec 2020

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What Do We See When Cells Blink?

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

31 Aug 20203 Sep 2020

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Abstraction in Systems Biology (And Beyond)

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

6 Mar 20207 Mar 2020

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How to Be Constructivist about Scientific Representation

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

17 Dec 2019

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De-Idealization: No Easy Reversals

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

13 Nov 201915 Nov 2019

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De-Idealization: No Easy Reversals

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

11 Oct 2019

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Modeling and Representation: An Artefactual Approach

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

24 Sep 2019

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Analogies and Templates in Model Transfer: the Statistical Physics of Associative Memory

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

11 Sep 201914 Sep 2019

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Model-based Theorizing: An Artefactual Account

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

11 Sep 201914 Sep 2019

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Modeling Biological Possibilities in Multiple Modalities

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

5 Aug 201910 Aug 2019

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De-idealization – No Easy Reversals

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Mary S. Morgan (Invited speaker)

12 Jun 201914 Jun 2019

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Synthetic Models: Concrete and Fictional

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

31 May 2019

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Mechanisms and Epistemic Artefacts: Modeling the Nerve Impulse

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Natalia Carillo-Escalera (Invited speaker)

5 Apr 20196 Apr 2019

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The Model-based Theoretical Strategy: Representations, Fictions and Artefacts

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

26 Mar 2019

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Representations, Fictions and Artefacts: Modeling Genetic Circuits

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

5 Mar 2019

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Model-Based Theoretical Strategy and the Artefactual Approach

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

5 Feb 2019

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Multiple Modeling in Tackling Epistemic Opacity

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

28 Nov 201830 Nov 2018

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Models and Analogies in Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

16 Nov 2018

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Modelling in Multiple Modalities – Triangulating Mathematical, Synthetic and Electronic Circuits

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Andrea Loettgers (Speaker) & Rami Koskinen (Speaker)

2 Oct 2018

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Exploring Genetic Regulation: Modeling in (Multiple) Materialities

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

3 Sep 20187 Sep 2018

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Synthetic Biology’s Alternative Realities – Turning Fictional Systems into Concrete Ones

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Rami Koskinen (Speaker)

3 Sep 20187 Sep 2018

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Synthetic biology’s alternative realities – Turning fictional systems into concrete ones

Rami Koskinen (Speaker) & Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

30 Jun 2018

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Macro Level Modeling of Phenomena: A Challenge to the Current Mechanistic Discussion

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Natalia Carillo-Escalera (Speaker)

15 Mar 201817 Mar 2018

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Simple – and Thick: Abstract Models in Economics

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Mary S. Morgan (Speaker)

15 Mar 201817 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Imagination Extended and Embodied: Fictional vs. Artifactual Accounts of Modeling

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

16 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Scientific Representation: Strategies of Compartmentalization in Negotiating the Structuralist-Pragmatist Divide

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Elena Castellani (Invited speaker)

25 Oct 2017

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Seemingly Simple: The Role of Addition in Abstraction

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Mary Morgan (Speaker)

12 Oct 201713 Oct 2017

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Synthetic Biology’s Alternative Realities – Turning Fictional Systems into Concrete Ones

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Rami Koskinen (Speaker)

12 Oct 2017

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Abstract and Concrete: Fictional and Artifactual Approaches to Modeling

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

6 Apr 2017

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Models, Fictions and Languages of Science

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

9 Mar 201710 Mar 2017

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Models as Experimental Objects: Constructing Synthetic Genetic Circuits

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

27 Jan 2017

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Definitions of life – why should we care (in astrobiology and elsewhere)?

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

3 Nov 20165 Nov 2016

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Imagination Extended and Embedded: An Artefactual Approach to Scientific Fiction

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

3 Nov 20166 Nov 2016

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Economic Models as Fictions and Artefacts

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

2 Sep 2016

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Imagination extended and Embedded: Fictional vs. Artefactual Accounts of Models

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

2 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Abstraction, Analogical Reasoning, and Big Data in Modeling Biological Systems

Tarja Knuuttila (Keynote speaker)

29 Aug 201630 Aug 2016

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Abstract and Concrete: An Artefactual Account of Models

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

20 May 201621 May 2016

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Abstraction and Model Construction in Systems Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Keynote speaker)

15 Apr 201616 Apr 2016

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Modelling and Experimentation in the Study of Genetic Circuits

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

10 Mar 2016

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Artefactual vs. Fictional Accounts of Models

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

8 Mar 2016

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Small Worlds Variously Embodied: the Material Dimension of Modelling

Tarja Knuuttila (Keynote speaker)

10 Dec 201512 Dec 2015

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Counterfactual Storytelling and Fictional Modelling: Friedman vs. Tobin on the Causation of Nominal Income

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

13 Nov 2015

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Synthetic biology: Turning Biology into an Engineering Discipline

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

10 Sep 201511 Sep 2015

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How to Understand Abstraction in Modeling Complex Systems

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

3 Aug 20158 Aug 2015

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What Are the Most Important Societal Challenges of Synthetic Biology?

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

2 Jul 20153 Jul 2015

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Fictional Modeling and Counterfactual Reasoning

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

29 Jun 201530 Jun 2015

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Two Kinds of Modellers

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

29 May 201530 May 2015

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Modelling and Engineering in the Study of Genetic Networks

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

22 May 2015

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Ways of Entering the Biological Organization: Mathematical Representations and Material Agency

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

18 May 201520 May 2015

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Diagrams, Mathematical Models, and Synthetic Models in the Study of Genetic Circuits … (Or, What are Diagrams Not Good For?)

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

19 Mar 201521 Mar 2015

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Modeling, Representing, and Experimenting in the Study of Genetic Circuits

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

21 Nov 2014

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The Lotka-Volterra Model Revisited

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

21 Nov 201422 Nov 2014

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Abstract and Concrete: Towards and Artifactual Theory of Fiction in Science

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

6 Nov 20149 Nov 2014

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Interdisciplinarity at the Grassroots Level: The Modeling Practice of Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

27 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Fictions and Models in Economic Theorizing

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

4 Jul 20145 Jul 2014

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Modeling/Experimenting: Constructing Synthetic Genetic Circuits

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

27 Jun 201428 Jun 2014

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Models and Representation: An Artifactual Approach

Tarja Knuuttila (Keynote speaker)

18 Jun 201420 Jun 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Models as Experimental Objects: Mathematical and Synthetic Modeling in the Study of Genetic Circuits

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

8 Jun 201410 Jun 2014

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Abstract and Concrete: Towards and Artifactual Theory of Fiction in Science

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

14 Mar 201415 Mar 2014

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Concrete Fictions: Synthetic Genetic Circuits in the Study of Biological Organization

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

28 Aug 201331 Aug 2013

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Models as Experimental Objects

Tarja Knuuttila (Keynote speaker)

23 May 201325 May 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interdisciplinarity at the Grassroots Level: The Modeling Practice of Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

1 Feb 20132 Feb 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Synthetic Modeling and the Mechanistic Account: Material Recombination and Beyond

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

15 Nov 201217 Nov 2012

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The Problem of Reflexivity and the Possibility of Constructivist Realism

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

17 Oct 201220 Oct 2012

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Mathematization in Synthetic Biology: Analogies, Templates, and Fictions

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

9 Aug 201211 Aug 2012

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Synthetic Modeling and the Mechanistic Account: Material Recombination and Beyond

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

14 Jun 201216 Jun 2012

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Synthetic Biology: The Combinatorial Modeling Practice

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

23 Feb 201224 Feb 2012

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Results-Oriented and Methods-Driven: The Contemporary Modeling Practice

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

15 Sep 201116 Sep 2011

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Varieties of Noise: Analogical Reasoning in Systems Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

18 Aug 201120 Aug 2011

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Synthetic Biology and the Functional Meaning of Noise

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

22 Jun 201124 Jun 2011

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The Combinatorial Modeling Strategy of Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

2 May 20113 May 2011

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Synthetic Modeling and Functional Meaning of Noise

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

1 Apr 20113 Apr 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Synthetic Biology and the Functional Meaning of Noise

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

3 Mar 20114 Mar 2011

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An Artefactual Approach to Scientific Modeling

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Invited speaker)

6 Jan 20117 Jan 2011

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Contradictions of Commercialization: The Norms of Scientific Research Revealed?

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

4 Nov 20106 Nov 2010

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Modeling and Experimenting: The Combinatorial Strategy in Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

15 Oct 201017 Oct 2010

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Modeling and the Problem of Scientific Representation

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

15 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Comment on Ismo Koponen: Models and Modelling in Physics: From Maxwell to Present Days

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

27 Sep 201028 Sep 2010

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Comment on Socio-Cognitive Modelling (Timo Honkela)

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

17 Jun 201018 Jun 2010

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Modeling and Representing: An Artefactual Approach to Representation

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

11 Nov 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How do models give us knowledge?

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker) & Mieke Boon (Invited speaker)

26 Oct 2009

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Templates vs. Mechanisms? The Lotka-Volterra Model Reconsidered

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

28 May 200930 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How does fiction help us understanding scientific models? The case of economic modeling

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

27 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Templates vs. Mechanisms? The Lotka-Volterra Model Reconsidered

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)

6 Mar 20098 Mar 2009

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Decoupling the Model-Target Dyad: the Thesis of Indirect Representation and Reverse Reasoning

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

6 Nov 20088 Nov 2008

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Indirect Representation, Multidisciplinary Templates and Underlying Mechanisms

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

31 Oct 20081 Nov 2008

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How to Approach Model-Based Scientific Practice?

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

5 Sep 20086 Sep 2008

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Modeling and Representing: How to Approach the Model-Based Scientific Practice

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

9 Jun 200813 Jun 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Representation, Idealization and Fiction in Economics: From the Assumptions Issue to the Epistemology of Modelling

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

19 May 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Incredible Models -- Credible Inferences? Economic Modelling in Theory and Practice

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

10 Mar 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Model, Image and Representation: Established interrelationships and possible cross-disseminations

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

31 Jan 20081 Feb 2008

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Computational Templates and the Strategy of Model-Based Science

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

29 Nov 200730 Nov 2007

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Some Consequences of Pragmatism: Whatever Happened to the Notion of Representation in the Philosophy of Science

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

15 Nov 200717 Nov 2007

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Determining the Norms of Science: From Epistemological Criteria to Local Struggle on Organizational Rules?

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Juha Tuunainen (Speaker)

18 Oct 200720 Oct 2007

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Neural Networks as Cross-Disciplinary Computational Templates: the Philosophical Implications of the Dissemination of Self-Organizing Maps

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Timo Honkela (Speaker)

11 Oct 200713 Oct 2007

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Unrealistic models -- credible inferences? Economic modelling in theory and practice

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

23 Aug 200725 Aug 2007

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Self-Organizing Maps as Travelling Computational Templates

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Anna-Mari Rusanen (Speaker) & Timo Honkela (Speaker)

12 Aug 200717 Aug 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interdisciplinary Relations in the Social and Cognitive Sciences, Inaugural Conference of TINT

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

15 Jun 200716 Jun 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


It is Not Just the Underlying Structure that Matters: Towards a Semiotic Approach to Scientific Representation

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

11 Jun 200713 Jun 2007

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The Absent Encyclopedia, or, How to Account for Meaning Making A

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

11 Jun 200717 Jun 2007

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Determining the Norms of Science: From Epistemological Criteria to Local Struggle on Organizational Rules?

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Juha Tuunainen (Speaker)

16 May 200718 May 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


In Praise of Purposeful ‘Misrepresentation’: Toward a Productive Understanding of Models

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

2 Nov 20064 Nov 2006

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Is it all about adaptation? On the dissemination of Self-Organising Maps

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Timo Honkela (Speaker)

1 Nov 20065 Nov 2006

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Combining Academic Work and Business Activity – Squaring the Circle?

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Juha Tuunainen (Speaker)

11 Sep 200613 Sep 2006

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The Double Agenda of STS Constructivism: On the Possibility of Fruitful Dialogue between STS and Philosophy of Science

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

23 Aug 200626 Aug 2006

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Representation and Realism in Economics: From the Assumptions Issue to the Epistemology of Modelling

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

2 Feb 20064 Feb 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Models, Machines, Mechanisms: Or, to Know One is to Build One?

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

12 Dec 200513 Dec 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Combining Academic Work and Commercialization of Research Results – Squaring the Circle?

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Juha Tuunainen (Speaker)

1 Sep 20053 Sep 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Model-Based Understanding? An Objectual Approach to Scientific Understanding

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Martina Merz (Speaker)

25 Aug 200527 Aug 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Philosophy of Science Meets STS: The Case of Scientific Models

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

7 Jul 20058 Jul 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Models as Epistemic Artefacts

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

4 Mar 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Models, Representation and Mediation

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

18 Nov 200420 Nov 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Modelling Language: From Representation to Productive Heuristics

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

25 Aug 200428 Aug 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From Representation to Production: Parsers and Parsing in Language-Technology

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

17 Jul 200419 Jul 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Questioning External and Internal Representation: The Case of Scientific Models

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Timo Honkela (Speaker)

3 Jun 20045 Jun 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Models, representation and mediation

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

22 Apr 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Analog Models as Epistemic Artefacts

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

11 Dec 200312 Dec 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Models, Representation and Mediation: A Two-Fold Account of Representation

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

15 Oct 200318 Oct 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Causality in Economics: The Supply of Money and the Phenomenon of Inflation

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

7 Aug 200313 Aug 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Models as Epistemic Artefacts

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

7 Aug 200313 Aug 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reconstructing Representation

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

30 Jul 20032 Aug 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Parser as an Epistemic Artefact: A Material View on Models

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Atro Voutilainen (Speaker)

7 Nov 200210 Nov 2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Practice-Oriented Approach to Models

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

31 Jul 20023 Aug 2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Toolness of Signs, The Signnes of Tools: Activity Theory Meets Semiotics

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

18 Jun 200222 Jun 2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Practice-Oriented Approach to Models

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

14 Jun 200218 Jun 2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Causality in Economics: The Supply of Money and the Phenomenon of Inflation

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

15 May 200218 May 2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Modeling and Experimentation in Language Technology

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker) & Atro Voutilainen (Speaker)

4 Oct 20015 Oct 2001

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What is a Model a Model of? Modeling as a Key to Understanding Representation

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

10 Jun 200115 Jun 2001

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Modeling Language: Parser Construction and Evaluation

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

17 May 200119 May 2001

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


After the Modern: Semiotics as Postmodern Philosophy?

Tarja Knuuttila (Invited speaker)

1 Dec 2000

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Constructing a Parser: Language Technology in the Marchland Between Theory and Practice

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

27 Sep 200030 Sep 2000

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


On the Concept of the Encyclopedia: An Absent Encyclopedia?

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

6 Oct 199911 Oct 1999

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tools and Signs: Towards a Marxian Semiotics

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

3 Oct 19996 Oct 1999

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Semiosis and the Concept of the Ideal

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

7 Sep 19998 Sep 1999

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Encyclopedia and Semiosis: On the Artefactuality of Encyclopedia

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)

11 Jun 199918 Jun 1999

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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