Univ.-Prof. Tarja Knuuttila, MSc M.Soc.Sc PhD
Tarja Knuuttila
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, Jg. 80, Nr. 5, S. 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, Jg. 28, Nr. 10, S. 578-583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.022


Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2013, 'Basic science through engineering? Synthetic modeling and the idea of biology-inspired engineering', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Jg. 44, Nr. 2, S. 158-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.03.011

Gramelsberger, G, Knuuttila, T & Gelfert, A 2013, 'Philosophical perspectives on synthetic biology', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Jg. 44, Nr. 2, S. 119-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.03.006

Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2013, Synthetic biology as an engineering science? analogical reasoning, synthetic modelling, and integration. in H Andersen (Hrsg.), New Challenges to Philosophy of Science. Springer, Dordrecht [u.a.], The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Bd. 4, S. 163-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5845-2_14

Knuuttila, T & Johansson, H 2013, Hommage à Holmberg/ Pédofil of Boa Vista: Representation, Laboratory and Field Studies. in L Beloff (Hrsg.), Field Notes – From Landscape to Laboratory. Finnish Bioart Society, S. 18 - 33.

Knuuttila, T 2013, Kaupallistuneen tieteen normit. in Talous ja filosofia. Gaudeamus Helsinki University Press.

Knuuttila, T 2013, Metamorphoses of Meaning: The Concept of the Ideal from a Semiotic Perspective. in A Levant (Hrsg.), Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism. Brill, S. 145 - 164.

Morgan, MS & Knuuttila, T 2012, Models and Modelling in Economics. in U Mäki (Hrsg.), Philosophy of Economics. Elsevier, Amsterdam, S. 49-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-51676-3.50003-8

Knuuttila, T 2012, 'Contradictions of Commercialization: Revealing the Norms of Science?', Philosophy of Science: official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, Jg. 79, Nr. 5, S. 833-844. https://doi.org/10.1086/667844

Knuuttila, T & Loettgers, A 2012, The Productive Tension: Mechanisms vs. Templates in Modeling the Phenomena. in P Humphreys & C Imbert (Hrsg.), Models, simulations, and representations. 1 Aufl., Routledge, New York [u.a.], Routledge studies in the philosophy of science, Bd. 9, S. 3-24. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203808412

Knuuttila, T & Boon, M 2011, 'How do models give us knowledge? The case of Carnot's ideal heat engine', European journal for philosophy of science, Jg. 1, Nr. 3, S. 309-334. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-011-0029-3

Knuuttila, T 2011, 'Modelling and representing: An artefactual approach to model-based representation', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Jg. 42, Nr. 2, S. 262-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.11.034

Boon, M & Knuuttila, T 2011, Breaking up with Epochal Break: The Case of Engineering Sciences. in A Nordmann (Hrsg.), Science Transformed: Debating Claims of an Epochal Break. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., S. 66-79.


Knuuttila, T & Kuorikoski, J 2011, Idealized Representations, Inferential Devices and Cross-Disciplinary Tools: Theoretical Models in Social Sciences. in I Jarvie (Hrsg.), The Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Science. Sage Publications Ltd., S. 530-550.

Knuuttila, T 2011, In the Grey Area: University Research and Commercial Activity – The Case of Language Technology. in J Dzisah (Hrsg.), The Age of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Universities, Knowledge and Society. Studies in critical social sciences, Bd. 37, S. 289-310.

Knuuttila, T & Lehtinen, A 2010, Johdanto: Representaatio – Tiedon kivijalasta tieteiden työkaluksi. in T Knuuttila & AP Lehtinen (Hrsg.), Representaatio: Tiedon kivijalasta tieteiden työkaluksi. Gaudeamus Helsinki University Press, Helsinki.

Knuuttila, T 2010, Not Just Underlying Structures: Towards a Semiotic Approach to Scientific Representation. in M Bergman & H Rydenfelt (Hrsg.), Ideas in Action: Proceedings of the Applying Peirce Conference., 12, Nordic Studies in Pragmatism, Nr. 1.

Modelling Biological Possibilities: A Philosophical Perspective

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

5 Dez. 2024

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Analogies, Templates and Models in Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

26 Nov. 2024

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Models Templates and Analogies in Model Transfer: From Physics to Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

14 Nov. 2024

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Generic and Generative Analogies

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

5 Nov. 2024

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Models as Representations and Artefacts

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

21 Okt. 2024

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Material Model Templates

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

11 Okt. 2024

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Mechanistic Reduction, Abstraction and Unification: Uri Alon’s Network Motifs

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

11 Okt. 2024

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A Computational Approach to Transdisciplinary Modeling

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

20 Juni 2024

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The Kuramoto Model: A Biography of a Model Template

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

13 Juni 2024

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Humphreys’ Templates, the Organization of Science, and Model Transfer

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

12 Juni 2024

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Fictions and Artefacts

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

23 Mai 2024

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How Come Multimodality is Still Missing from the Philosophy of Science, and What Can We Do to Change That?

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

15 Mai 2024

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

30 Nov. 2023

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Jäger, J. (Invited speaker)

17 Okt. 2023

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The Combinatorial Possibilities of Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

20 Sept. 202323 Sept. 2023

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Model Templates and Multiple Realizability

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

5 Juni 2023

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Abstraction as Material Translation

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Carrillo, N. (Invited speaker)

18 Apr. 2023

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Surrogate Reasoning: An Artifactual Approach

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

23 Jan. 2023

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Modelling and Surrogate Reasoning

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

30 Nov. 2022

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Surrogate Reasoning: Representational and Artefactual Approaches

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

30 Sept. 2022

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The Combinatorial Possibilities of Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

31 Aug. 2022

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Surrogative Reasoning: An Artifactual Approach

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

17 Aug. 202219 Aug. 2022

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Rost, M. (Invited speaker)

4 Aug. 2022

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Surrogative Reasoning: An Artefactual Approach

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

21 Juni 2022

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The Combinatorial Possibilities of Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

26 Mai 2022

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Transdisciplinary Model Templates: Application and Entanglement

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

23 Apr. 2022

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

Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r) & Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

11 Nov. 2021

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(Un)Easily Possible Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

11 Nov. 2021

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Idealization and De-Idealization in Economics and Beyond

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

24 Sept. 2021

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Carrillo Martinez de la Escalera, N. (Vortragende*r)

15 Sept. 202118 Sept. 2021

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Ontological Agnosticism about Topological Explanations

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

15 Sept. 202118 Sept. 2021

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Success or not? Two models of collective phenomena

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

7 Juli 2021

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Transdisciplinary Template Application: The Kuramoto Model

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

Juli 2021

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

16 Juni 2021

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

3 Juni 2021

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Synthetic Biology In Between the Actual, Virtual – And Fictional

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

19 März 2021

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In Sync Across Disciplines: A Computational Approach to Template Transfer

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r), Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r) & Noichl, M. (Vortragende*r)

März 2021

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How to Understand Scientific Modeling: A Case from Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

27 Jan. 2021

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Ontological agnosticism about topological explanations

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

2 Dez. 2020

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What do we see when cells blink?

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

31 Aug. 20203 Sept. 2020

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Abstraction in Systems Biology (And Beyond)

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

6 März 20207 März 2020

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How To Be Constructivist About Scientific Representation

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

17 Dez. 2019

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De-idealization – No Easy Reversals

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

13 Nov. 201915 Nov. 2019

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De-idealization – No Easy Reversals

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

11 Okt. 2019

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Modeling and Representation: An Artefactual Approach

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

24 Sept. 2019

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

11 Sept. 201914 Sept. 2019

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Model-based Theorizing: An Artefactual Approach

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

11 Sept. 201914 Sept. 2019

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Modeling Biological Possibilities in Multiple Modalities

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

5 Aug. 201910 Aug. 2019

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De-idealization – No Easy Reversals

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Morgan, M. S. (Invited speaker)

12 Juni 201914 Juni 2019

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Synthetic Models: Concrete and Fictional?

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

31 Mai 2019

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Mechanisms and Epistemic Artefacts: Modeling the Nerve Impulse

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Carillo-Escalera, N. (Invited speaker)

5 Apr. 20196 Apr. 2019

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

26 März 2019

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Representations, Fictions and Artefacts: Modeling Genetic Circuits

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

5 März 2019

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Model-Based Theoretical Strategy and the Artefactual Approach

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

5 Feb. 2019

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Multiple Modeling in Tackling Epistemic Opacity

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

28 Nov. 201830 Nov. 2018

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Models and Analogies in Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

16 Nov. 2018

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r), Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r) & Koskinen, R. (Vortragende*r)

2 Okt. 2018

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Exploring Genetic Regulation: Modeling in (Multiple) Materialities

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

3 Sept. 20187 Sept. 2018

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Koskinen, R. (Vortragende*r)

3 Sept. 20187 Sept. 2018

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

Koskinen, R. (Vortragende*r) & Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

30 Juni 2018

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Carillo-Escalera, N. (Vortragende*r)

15 März 201817 März 2018

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Simple – and Thick: Abstract Models in Economics

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Morgan, M. S. (Vortragende*r)

15 März 201817 März 2018

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

16 Nov. 2017

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Castellani, E. (Invited speaker)

25 Okt. 2017

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Seemingly Simple: The Role of Addition in Abstraction

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Morgan, M. (Vortragende*r)

12 Okt. 201713 Okt. 2017

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Koskinen, R. (Vortragende*r)

12 Okt. 2017

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Abstract and Concrete: Fictional and Artifactual Approaches to Modeling

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

6 Apr. 2017

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Models, Fictions and Languages of Science

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

9 März 201710 März 2017

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Models as Experimental Objects: Constructing Synthetic Genetic Circuits

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

27 Jan. 2017

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

3 Nov. 20165 Nov. 2016

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Imagination Extended and Embedded: An Artefactual Approach to Scientific Fiction

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

3 Nov. 20166 Nov. 2016

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Economic Models as Fictions and Artefacts

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

2 Sept. 2016

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

2 Sept. 2016

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

Knuuttila, T. (Keynote speaker)

29 Aug. 201630 Aug. 2016

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Abstract and Concrete: An Artefactual Account of Models

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

20 Mai 201621 Mai 2016

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Abstraction and Model Construction in Systems Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Keynote speaker)

15 Apr. 201616 Apr. 2016

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Modelling and Experimentation in the Study of Genetic Circuits

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

10 März 2016

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Artefactual vs. Fictional Accounts of Models

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

8 März 2016

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Small Worlds Variously Embodied: the Material Dimension of Modelling

Knuuttila, T. (Keynote speaker)

10 Dez. 201512 Dez. 2015

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

13 Nov. 2015

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Synthetic biology: Turning Biology into an Engineering Discipline

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

10 Sept. 201511 Sept. 2015

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How to Understand Abstraction in Modeling Complex Systems

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

3 Aug. 20158 Aug. 2015

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What Are the Most Important Societal Challenges of Synthetic Biology?

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

2 Juli 20153 Juli 2015

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Fictional Modeling and Counterfactual Reasoning

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

29 Juni 201530 Juni 2015

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Two Kinds of Modellers

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

29 Mai 201530 Mai 2015

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Modelling and Engineering in the Study of Genetic Networks

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

22 Mai 2015

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

18 Mai 201520 Mai 2015

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

19 März 201521 März 2015

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

21 Nov. 2014

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The Lotka-Volterra Model Revisited

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

21 Nov. 201422 Nov. 2014

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

6 Nov. 20149 Nov. 2014

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

27 Aug. 2014

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Fictions and Models in Economic Theorizing

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

4 Juli 20145 Juli 2014

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Modeling/Experimenting: Constructing Synthetic Genetic Circuits

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

27 Juni 201428 Juni 2014

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Models and Representation: An Artifactual Approach

Knuuttila, T. (Keynote speaker)

18 Juni 201420 Juni 2014

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

8 Juni 201410 Juni 2014

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

14 März 201415 März 2014

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

28 Aug. 201331 Aug. 2013

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Models as Experimental Objects

Knuuttila, T. (Keynote speaker)

23 Mai 201325 Mai 2013

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

1 Feb. 20132 Feb. 2013

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Synthetic Modeling and the Mechanistic Account: Material Recombination and Beyond

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

15 Nov. 201217 Nov. 2012

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The Problem of Reflexivity and the Possibility of Constructivist Realism

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

17 Okt. 201220 Okt. 2012

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Mathematization in Synthetic Biology: Analogies, Templates, and Fictions

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

9 Aug. 201211 Aug. 2012

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Synthetic Modeling and the Mechanistic Account: Material Recombination and Beyond

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

14 Juni 201216 Juni 2012

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Synthetic Biology: The Combinatorial Modeling Practice

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

23 Feb. 201224 Feb. 2012

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

15 Sept. 201116 Sept. 2011

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Varieties of Noise: Analogical Reasoning in Systems Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

18 Aug. 201120 Aug. 2011

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Synthetic Biology and the Functional Meaning of Noise

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

22 Juni 201124 Juni 2011

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The Combinatorial Modeling Strategy of Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

2 Mai 20113 Mai 2011

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Synthetic Modeling and Functional Meaning of Noise

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

1 Apr. 20113 Apr. 2011

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Synthetic Biology and the Functional Meaning of Noise

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

3 März 20114 März 2011

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


An Artefactual Approach to Scientific Modeling

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Loettgers, A. (Invited speaker)

6 Jan. 20117 Jan. 2011

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Contradictions of Commercialization: The Norms of Scientific Research Revealed?

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

4 Nov. 20106 Nov. 2010

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Modeling and Experimenting: The Combinatorial Strategy in Synthetic Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

15 Okt. 201017 Okt. 2010

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Modeling and the Problem of Scientific Representation

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

15 Okt. 2010

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

27 Sept. 201028 Sept. 2010

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Comment on Socio-Cognitive Modelling (Timo Honkela)

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

17 Juni 201018 Juni 2010

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Modeling and Representing: An Artefactual Approach to Representation

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

11 Nov. 2009

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


How do models give us knowledge?

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker) & Boon, M. (Invited speaker)

26 Okt. 2009

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Templates vs. Mechanisms? The Lotka-Volterra Model Reconsidered

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

28 Mai 200930 Mai 2009

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

27 Mai 2009

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Templates vs. Mechanisms? The Lotka-Volterra Model Reconsidered

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Loettgers, A. (Vortragende*r)

6 März 20098 März 2009

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

6 Nov. 20088 Nov. 2008

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Indirect Representation, Multidisciplinary Templates and Underlying Mechanisms

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

31 Okt. 20081 Nov. 2008

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


How to Approach Model-Based Scientific Practice?

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

5 Sept. 20086 Sept. 2008

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

9 Juni 200813 Juni 2008

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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

19 Mai 2008

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

10 März 2008

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

31 Jan. 20081 Feb. 2008

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Computational Templates and the Strategy of Model-Based Science

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

29 Nov. 200730 Nov. 2007

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

15 Nov. 200717 Nov. 2007

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Tuunainen, J. (Vortragende*r)

18 Okt. 200720 Okt. 2007

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Honkela, T. (Vortragende*r)

11 Okt. 200713 Okt. 2007

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

23 Aug. 200725 Aug. 2007

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Self-Organizing Maps as Travelling Computational Templates

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r), Rusanen, A.-M. (Vortragende*r) & Honkela, T. (Vortragende*r)

12 Aug. 200717 Aug. 2007

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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

15 Juni 200716 Juni 2007

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

11 Juni 200713 Juni 2007

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

11 Juni 200717 Juni 2007

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Tuunainen, J. (Vortragende*r)

16 Mai 200718 Mai 2007

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

2 Nov. 20064 Nov. 2006

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Honkela, T. (Vortragende*r)

1 Nov. 20065 Nov. 2006

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Combining Academic Work and Business Activity – Squaring the Circle?

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Tuunainen, J. (Vortragende*r)

11 Sept. 200613 Sept. 2006

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

23 Aug. 200626 Aug. 2006

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

2 Feb. 20064 Feb. 2006

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

12 Dez. 200513 Dez. 2005

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Tuunainen, J. (Vortragende*r)

1 Sept. 20053 Sept. 2005

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Model-Based Understanding? An Objectual Approach to Scientific Understanding

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Merz, M. (Vortragende*r)

25 Aug. 200527 Aug. 2005

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Philosophy of Science Meets STS: The Case of Scientific Models

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

7 Juli 20058 Juli 2005

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Models as Epistemic Artefacts

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

4 März 2005

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Models, Representation and Mediation

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

18 Nov. 200420 Nov. 2004

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Modelling Language: From Representation to Productive Heuristics

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

25 Aug. 200428 Aug. 2004

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

17 Juli 200419 Juli 2004

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Questioning External and Internal Representation: The Case of Scientific Models

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Honkela, T. (Vortragende*r)

3 Juni 20045 Juni 2004

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Models, representation and mediation

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

22 Apr. 2004

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Analog Models as Epistemic Artefacts

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

11 Dez. 200312 Dez. 2003

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

15 Okt. 200318 Okt. 2003

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

7 Aug. 200313 Aug. 2003

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Models as Epistemic Artefacts

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

7 Aug. 200313 Aug. 2003

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Reconstructing Representation

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

30 Juli 20032 Aug. 2003

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Voutilainen, A. (Vortragende*r)

7 Nov. 200210 Nov. 2002

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


A Practice-Oriented Approach to Models

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

31 Juli 20023 Aug. 2002

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

18 Juni 200222 Juni 2002

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


A Practice-Oriented Approach to Models

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

14 Juni 200218 Juni 2002

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

15 Mai 200218 Mai 2002

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Modeling and Experimentation in Language Technology

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r) & Voutilainen, A. (Vortragende*r)

4 Okt. 20015 Okt. 2001

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

10 Juni 200115 Juni 2001

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Modeling Language: Parser Construction and Evaluation

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

17 Mai 200119 Mai 2001

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


After the Modern: Semiotics as Postmodern Philosophy?

Knuuttila, T. (Invited speaker)

1 Dez. 2000

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


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

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

27 Sept. 200030 Sept. 2000

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


On the Concept of the Encyclopedia: An Absent Encyclopedia?

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

6 Okt. 199911 Okt. 1999

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Tools and Signs: Towards a Marxian Semiotics

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

3 Okt. 19996 Okt. 1999

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Semiosis and the Concept of the Ideal

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

7 Sept. 19998 Sept. 1999

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The Encyclopedia and Semiosis: On the Artefactuality of Encyclopedia

Knuuttila, T. (Vortragende*r)

11 Juni 199918 Juni 1999

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Philosophy as Conceptual Engagement: The Concepts we Have and the Concepts we Want (PACE)

Kölbel, M. (Projektleiter*in), Grimm, H. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Kallhoff, A. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Knuuttila, T. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Schiemer, G. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Sliwa, P. (Co-Projektleiter*in) & Meincke-Spann, A. S. (Co-Projektleiter*in)

1/10/2330/09/27

Projekt: Forschungsförderung


Wissen in der Krise / Knowledge in Crisis

Crane, T. (Projektkoordinator*in), Sliwa, P. (Projektleiter*in), Schmid, H. B. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Kölbel, M. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Werndl, C. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Farkas, K. (Co-Projektleiter*in), David, M. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Means, J. (Projektkoordinator*in), Rasl, M. (Projektadministrator*in), Kallhoff, A. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Schnieder, B. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Pinkert, F. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Grimm, H. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Coeckelbergh, M. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Knuuttila, T. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Peschl, F.-M. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Vraciu, C. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Benli, A. E. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Dal Conti Lampert, F. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Greslehner, G. P. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Harris, K. R. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Dougherty, M. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Tiisala, T. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Kappes, Y. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in) & Staykov, B. (Projektadministrator*in)

1/10/2330/09/28

Projekt: Forschungsförderung


Pushing the Boundaries: Agency, Evolution and the Dynamic Emergence of Expanding Possibilities

Jäger, J. (Projektleiter*in) & Knuuttila, T. (Co-Projektleiter*in)

1/12/2230/08/25

Projekt: Forschungsförderung


LIFEMODE: Possible Life: The Philosophical Significance of Extending Biology

Knuuttila, T. (Projektleiter*in)

1/06/1931/05/24

Projekt: Forschungsförderung


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