top of page

News & Updates


Relating explanatory paradigms in cognitive neuroscience - pluralism, integration, and elimination (TU Berlin, 25-27 Feb 2026)
We are pleased to announce that our next workshop will take place on 25th to 27th February at TU Berlin. Our goal is to examine the relations between different explanatory paradigms in cognitive neuroscience, including mechanistic, dynamical, computational, topological, and other types of explanations. We are looking forward to insightful discussions with our panel of internationally renowned experts in philosophy of neuroscience. For more information, click here
17. Okt. 2025
Introduction to philosophical debates on mechanistic, representational and computational explanation
We have prepared an introductory handout for our collaborators, which introduces the main topics of our project - the philosophical...
9. Jan. 2025


Talk on computational explanation at the ISPSM web conference
Matej gave a talk at the 2nd Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind on 18th...
20. Okt. 2024


Talk at Workshop "Reasons, Explanations, and Models"
Beate gave a talk on the connection between mechanistic and topological explanation at a wonderful workshop in Hamburg organized by...
3. Okt. 2024


CFP: NeuroExp 2025 - Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience: From empirical case studies to philosophical analysis, Feb 19-21 2025
Philosophical analysis of scientific explanation has undergone a great shift from armchair theorising to empirically inspired and...
22. Aug. 2024
bottom of page