Research

Rowbottom, D. P. (forthcoming). The Role of AI in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies, with André Curtis-Trudel and David Barack, London: Routledge.

Curtis-Trudel, A. (forthcoming). Computability and Computational Explanation. Cambridge Elements in Philosophy of Mathematics. Cambridge University Press.

Curtis-Trudel, A., Rowbottom, D. P., Li, T. G. F. (forthcoming) Computational science and unconceived alternatives: lessons from, and for, gravitational-wave astronomy. Synthese.

Barack D. L. (2025). “The Multiple Action Account of Filling a Role”. Philosophical Studies. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-025-02358-0

Barack D. L. (2025). “Theory change in cognitive neurobiology: the case of the orbitofrontal cortex”. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 16:e70003, p. 1-12. https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcs.70003

Curtis-Trudel, A. (2024). “Computation in Context”, Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00851-2 

Rowbottom, D. P., Peden, W., Curtis-Trudel, A. (2024). “Does the No-Miracles Argument Apply to AI?” Synthese 203, 173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04524-z 

‘Functioning but Aimless Science: Critical Notice on Alexander Bird’s Knowing Science’, Metascience 33, 317–324 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11016-024-01023-2 

Radzvilas, M., Peden, W., and De Pretis, F. (2023). “The Ambiguity Dilemma for Imprecise Bayesians” British Journal for Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1086/729618 

Rowbottom, D. P. (2023). Scientific Progress. Cambridge Elements in Philosophy of Science. Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781108625753 

Radzvilas, M., Peden, W., and De Pretis, F. (2023). “Making decisions with evidential probability and objective Bayesian calibration inductive logics.” International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2023.109030

Curtis-Trudel, A. (2023). “Limitative Explanations in Computer Science.” Philosophical Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02039-w 

Rowbottom, D. P., Curtis-Trudel, A. and Peden, W. (2023). “Evidence, Computation, and AI: Why Evidence Ain’t Just in the Head.” Asian Journal of Philosophy 2(11). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-023-00061-7

Rowbottom, D. P. (2023). “Reply by the Author.” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Book forum on The Instrument of Science: Scientific anti-realism revitalized.

Curtis-Trudel, A. (2023). “Mathematical Explanation in Computer Science.” Philosophy of Science. doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.26 

Rowbottom, D. P. (2025). “On Probabilities in Personalised Medicine: The Problem of Untestable Treatments”, EVITE.

Harting, P. H. (2025). “Scientific Explanation of Chemical Structure.” The 22nd Chinese Biennial Conference on Philosophy of Science, Sun Yat Sen University, Zhuhai, China.

Rowbottom, D. P. (2025). “What’s Hidden Inside Predictively Successful Deep Learning Models?”, Philosophy of AI in Asia Workshop, Hong Kong University.

Harting, P. H. (2025). “The Ontology of Science, Natural Kinds and Indistinguishability.” 5th International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

Curtis-Trudel, A., Rowbottom, D. P., Li, T. (2024). “Computational Science and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives: Lessons from Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics.” Models, Representation, and Computation, Paris, France.

Curtis-Trudel, A., Rowbottom, D. P., Möckl, L. (2024). “What can philosophy of science do for XAI?” Analytic Philosophy Forum, University of Tokyo.

Curtis-Trudel, A., Rowbottom, D. P., Li, T. “On Finding What You're (Not) Looking For: Challenges and Prospects for AI-Driven Discovery.”

• April, 2024. University of Sapporo, Japan.

• April 2024, University of Kyoto, Japan.

• April, 2024. ML, Explain Yourself! Utrecht University.

• March, 2024. Philosophy of AI in Asia, University of Hong Kong.

Curtis-Trudel, A., Rowbottom, D. P. (2024). "The AI-specific No Miracles Argument and Quasi-representation.” Sun Yat Sen University, Zhuhai. [Keynote]

Rowbottom, D. P., Seminar on Scientific Progress (CUP), Section of Logic & Cognitive Science. Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Curtis-Trudel, A., Rowbottom, D. P., Peden, W., “What is the Challenge to Acquiring Understanding via Deep Learning Systems?”

• September, 2023. Epistemology & AI 2023. Zhejiang University, China.

• September, 2023. CLPS Seminar Series, KU Leuven.

• August, 2023. Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.

Rowbottom, D. P., Curtis-Trudel, A., and Peden, W. (2023). “Machine Learning and the Problem of Noise-Dominated Measurement.” British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting. Bristol, UK. 

Peden, W. “The Ignorance Dilemma for Imprecise Bayesianism.”

• August, 2023. Progic: Probability and Logic workshop, University of Utrecht. 

• April, 2023. Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economic, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

• March, 2023. Department of Philosophy, University of Turin. 

• March, 2023. Formal Epistemology Meets General Epistemology Workshop, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Munich, Germany.

Rowbottom, D. P., Peden, W., Curtis-Trudel, A. “Does the No Miracles Argument Apply to AI?”

• 2024. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.

• March, 2024. IHPST, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

• September, 2023. Epistemology & AI 2023. Zhejiang Univesity, China. [Keynote]

• July, 2023. Philosophy of Science Seminar, Technical University of Berlin.

• March, 2023. Kyoto University, Japan.

Rowbottom, D. P., Curtis-Trudel, A., Peden, W. (2023). “Evidence, Computation, and AI: Why Evidence Ain't Just in the Head.” PCFS Seminar Series. Hong Kong SAR, China.

Curtis-Trudel, A. (2022). “Mathematical Explanation in Computer Science.” Philosophy of Science Association 28th Biennial Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA.

Rowbottom, D. P. (2022). “Confirmation and Evidence in the Light of AI and Big Data.” An International Conference in Humanities Research: A.I. and Beyond, Culturally Speaking. Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR. Conference webpage