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Univ.-Prof. Tarja Knuuttila, MSc M.Soc.Sc PhD
T: +43-1-4277-46430
M: +43-664-60277-46430
http://tarjaknuuttila.com
Winter term 2020
180212 SE Artefacts and Scientific Reasoning
180213 SE Emergence in Sciences
Summer term 2020
180099 SE Modelling in Economics
430009 SE Seminar for Doctoral Candidates
Winter term 2019
180126 SE Philosophy of climate science
180156 SE Philosophy of Science
Knuuttila, T & Carillo-Escalera, N 2020, An Artefactual Perspective on Idealization: Constant Capacitance and the Hodgkin and Huxley Model. in A Cassini & J Redmond (eds), Models and Idealizations in Science: Fictional and Artifactual Approaches. Springer.
Knuuttila, T & Morgan, MS 2019, 'Deidealization: No easy reversals', Philosophy of Science, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 641-661. https://doi.org/10.1086/704975
Knuuttila, T & Deister, VG 2019, 'Modelling Gene Regulation: (De)compositional and Template-based Strategies', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 77, pp. 101-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.11.002
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2019, Magnetized Memories: Analogies and Templates in Model Transfer. in S Holm (ed.), Living Machines? : Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology. Routledge.
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2018, Models as Experimental Objects: Mathematical and Synthetic Modelling in the Study of Genetic Circuits. in IF Peschard & BC van Fraassen (eds), The Experimental Side of Modeling. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 21.
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2017, 'Modelling as Indirect Representation? The Lotka-Volterra Model Revisited', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 1007-1036. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axv055
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2017, 'What are definitions of life good for? Transdisciplinary and other definitions in astrobiology', Biology and Philosophy, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1185-1203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-017-9600-4
Koskinen, R & Knuuttila, T 2017, Elämä ja mahdollinen elämä: filosofisia näkökulmia. in K Enqvist (ed.), Kaikki vapaudesta. Gaudeamus Helsinki University Press, Helsinki, pp. 247-259.
Knuuttila, T 2017, 'How to Do Science with Models: A Philosophical Primer / Axel Gelfert. - 2016' The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Knuuttila, T 2017, 'Imagination Extended and Embedded: Artifactual and Fictional Accounts of Models', Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1545-2
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2017, Mathematization in Synthetic Biology: Analogies, Templates and Fictions. in J Lenhard & M Carrier (eds), Mathematics as a Tool: tracing new roles of mathematics in the sciences. Springer, Cham, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 327, pp. 37-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54469-4_3
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2016, 'Model templates within and between disciplines: from magnets to gases - and socio-economic systems', European journal for philosophy of science, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 377-400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-016-0145-1
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2016, Contrasting Cases: The Lotka-Volterra Model revisited. in T Sauer (ed.), The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies. Springer, Cham.
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2016, Contrasting Cases: The Lotka-Volterra Model Three Times. in T Sauer & R Scholl (eds), The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies. Springer, pp. 151 - 178.
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2014, 'Varieties of noise: analogical reasoning in synthetic biology', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 48, pp. 76-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2014.05.006
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2014, 'Magnets, spins, and neurons: the dissemination of model templates across disciplines', Monist: an international quarterly of general philosophical inquiry, vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 280-300. https://doi.org/10.5840/monist201497319
Knuuttila, T & Boon, M 2014, Bruch mit dem Epochenbruch: Der Fall der Ingenieurswissenschaften. in A Nordmann (ed.), Strukturwandel der Wissenschaft ; Science transformed?: Positionen zum Epochenbruch . Velbrück, pp. 82 - 96.
Knuuttila, T 2014, Reflexivity, Representation, and the Possibility of Constructivist Realism. in MC Galavotti (ed.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Springer, Cham, pp. 297-312.
Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2013, 'Synthetic Modelling and Mechanistic Account: Material Recombination and Beyond', Philosophy of Science: official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 874-885. https://doi.org/10.1086/673965
Evans, MR, Grimm, V, Johst, K, Knuuttila, T, de Langhe, R, Lessells, CM, Merz, M, O'Malley, MA, Orzack, SH, Weisberg, M, Wilkinson, DJ, Wolkenhauer, O & Benton, TG 2013, 'Do simple models lead to generality in ecology?', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 578-583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.022

De-idealization – No Easy Reversals

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
13 Nov 2020 → 15 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

De-idealization – No Easy Reversals

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
11 Oct 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Modeling and Representation: An Artefactual Approach

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
24 Sep 2020

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Abstraction in Systems Biology (And Beyond)

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
6 Mar 2020 → 7 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

How To Be Constructivist About Scientific Representation

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
17 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)
11 Sep 2019 → 14 Sep 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Model-based Theorizing: An Artefactual Approach

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
11 Sep 2019 → 14 Sep 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Modeling Biological Possibilities in Multiple Modalities

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
5 Aug 2019 → 10 Aug 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

De-idealization – No Easy Reversals

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Mary S. Morgan (Speaker)
12 Jun 2019 → 14 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
26 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Representations, Fictions and Artefacts: Modeling Genetic Circuits

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
5 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Model-Based Theoretical Strategy and the Artefactual Approach

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
5 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Mechanisms and Epistemic Artefacts: Modeling the Nerve Impulse

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Natalia Carillo-Escalera (Speaker)
2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Synthetic Models: Concrete and Fictional?

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Multiple Modeling in Tackling Epistemic Opacity

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)
28 Nov 2018 → 30 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Models and Analogies in Synthetic Biology

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker)
16 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Andrea Loettgers (Speaker), Rami Koskinen (Speaker)
2 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Exploring Genetic Regulation: Modeling in (Multiple) Materialities

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Andrea Loettgers (Speaker)
3 Sep 2018 → 7 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Rami Koskinen (Speaker)
3 Sep 2018 → 7 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Natalia Carillo-Escalera (Speaker)
15 Mar 2018 → 17 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Simple – and Thick: Abstract Models in Economics

Tarja Knuuttila (Speaker), Mary S. Morgan (Speaker)
15 Mar 2018 → 17 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Department of Philosophy

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