Prof. Dr. Lena Kästner
Selected Talks & Posters
invited talks
| Jul 2024 | “What XAI can Learn from Philosophy of Science” | Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany |
| May 2024 | “Moderne KI-Systeme in der Gesellschaft: Chancen, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen” [Modern AI-Systems in Society: Chances, Risks and Side-effects] | Tagung der Freien Akademie, Schloss Schney, Germany |
| Apr 2024 | “What is Artificial Intelligence?” | Münchenwiler Seminar, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Mar 2024 | “Navigating Towards Trustworthy AI” | International Congress on Biophotonics (ICOB24), Jena, Germany |
| Feb 2024 | “Opacity as a Stepping Stone” | Workshop: Epistemological Issues of Machine Learning in Science, Dortmund, Germany |
| Feb 2024 | “AI in Society: On Trustworthiness, Fairness and Explainability” | Weizenbaum Institut, Berlin, Germany |
| Dec 2023 | “The Weal and Woe of Black Box Systems” | Lingnan-Cambridge Workshop on AI in Science, Cambridge University, UK |
| Nov 2023 | “What Explainable AI can Learn from Philosophy of Science” | CamPoS talk series, Cambridge University, UK |
| Sep 2023 | Keynote: “To trust or not to trust? – On Challenges for AI in Modern Society” | Requirements Engineering for Explainable Systems (RE4ES), Hannover, Germany |
| Jul 2023 | “Machine Learning & Neuroscience: A Complex Relation” | University of Ulm, Germany |
| Jul 2023 | “Wunderpille KI? Zu Chancen, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen” [Magic Pill AI? Chances, Risks, and Side Effects] |
Wissenschaftstag 2023,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
| May 2023 | “Machine Learning & Scientific Discovery” | Bielefeld University, Germany |
| Apr 2023 | “ADM-Systeme in der modernen Gesellschaft: ihr Potenzial und ihre Grenzen” [Automated Decision-Making Systems in Modern Society: Potentials and Pitfalls] | Bayerischen Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM) and Münchener Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht (IUM), Munich, Germany |
| Feb 2023 | “For Better or Worse? AI in Modern Society: The Case of ChatGTP” | International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS), Salzburg, Austria |
| Feb 2023 | “Gedanken aus der Philosophie: Ist KI im Gerichtssaal vertretbar?” [Thoughts from Philosophy: Is AI in the Courtroom Justifiable?] (with Ulla Wessels) | International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS), Salzburg, Austria |
| Jan 2023 | “Explaining AI Through the Scientific Perspective” | RWTH Aachen/ HLRS Stuttgart, Germany |
| Oct 2022 | “Blackbox AI: How to Discover What’s Happening Inside” | GeSiMeX Workshop: Model-Development in Neuroscience: Generalizability and Simplicity in Mechanistic Explanations, Berlin, Germany |
| Oct 2022 | “Introducing the XiC (Explainability in Context) Framework” (with Markus Langer) | Herrenhausen Conference on AI and the Future of Society, Hannover, Germany |
| Oct 2022 | Keynote: “Discovering the Inside of the Blackbox” | Conference: Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, CORPUS Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| Apr 2022 | Keynote “On Modeling Psychopathology: Eight Challenges and How to Meet Them” | Workshop: Foundations and Applications of AI: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Peking University, Beijing, China |
| Mar 2022 | “Modelling Mental Illnesses: Multiplexes to Rescue?” | Lugano/Milan Series on the Foundations and Ethics of AI, IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Lugano, Italy |
| Jan 2022 | “Mechanisms and Scientific Pursuit” | Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Germany |
| Nov 2021 | “Grasping Psychopathology: On Complex and Computational Models” | Summer School: Machine Learnings meets Philosophy of Science, Tübingen, Germany |
| Jul 2021 | Keynote “Mysterious Multiplexes” | Workshop: ECR Workshop in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Bochum, Germany |
| May 2021 | “The Promises of XAI: Understanding, Explanation and Discovery” (with Timo Speith) | Workshop: Current Issues in XAI #2: Understanding and Explaining in Healthcare, Cambridge, UK |
| May 2021 | “XAI in Context: Glassboxing vs. Interpretability Methods” | Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands |
| Apr 2021 | Keynote “What is the Epistemology of XAI?” | Workshop: Explainable medical AI: Ethics, Epistemology, and Formal Methods, Lorentz Center Leiden, Netherlands |
| Feb 2021 | “Perspicuous Computing“ (with Holger Hermanns, Bernd Finkbeiner, Christof Fetzer, Raimund Dachselt, and Rupak Majumdar) | Session at Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) 2021, online |
| Jan 2021 | “Mechanisms and Interventions” | Cognition Academy at the Max Planck School of Cognition, Berlin, Germany |
| Dec 2020 | “Modelling Psychopathology: When Correlation Waggles Its Eyebrows” | Research Colloquium in Philosophy of Cognition, TU Berlin, Germany |
| Oct 2020 | “Causal Modelling and Computational Models” | Department of Philosophy, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| May 2020 | “Explaining, Modelling, and Merely Interacting” | Workshop: Philosophy of Psychiatry and Extrospection, Berlin, Germany |
| Feb 2020 | “Representing Psychopathology” | Workshop: Representations in Cognitive Science, Bochum, Germany |
| Nov 2019 | “Phänomene erklären, Mechanismen entdecken” [Explaining Phenomena, Discovering Mechanisms] | Department of Philosophy, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| Nov 2019 | “Approaching Mental Disorders: Mechanisms, Predictions, or Networks?” | NIAS-Lorentz workshop: What is Translation, Leiden, Netherlands |
| Oct 2019 | “How to Model the Mind and its Relation to the World” | Distinguished Speakers Colloquium, SFB1102 Information Density and Lunguistic Encoding, Saarland University, Germany |
| Jul 2019 | “How Can We Make Sense of Explainable Intelligent Systems?” | Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge, UK |
| Jun 2019 | “Modelling Mental Disorders: Cognitive, Causal, Both or Neither” | Modelling Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| May 2019 | “Identifying Causes in Psychiatry” | Philosophy Department, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Jan 2019 | “Mechanism Discovery: What Does It Take?” | Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany |
| Dec 2018 | “Mechanism Discovery and Pattern Recognition” | Real Patterns Workshop, University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Jul 2018 | “Network Models in Psychiatry: Same but Different?” | Morris Colloquium: The Self and Its Realizations, Boulder, CO |
| Apr 2018 | “Mechanistic Inquiry: From Intervention to Explanation?” | Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany |
| Jul 2017 | “Predictive Processing: A Theory of Every Thing?” | ISHPSSB symposium “Philosophy of Neuroscience”, ISHPSSB , São Paulo, Brazil |
| Jun 2017 | “Levels as Epistemic Perspectives” | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Feb 2016 | “Mechanism Trinity” | Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| Sept 2015 | “Patterns and Interlevel Explanations” | workshop: Hempel & Beyond, Universität zu Köln, Germany |
| Jul 2015 | “Mapping the Experimental Landscape” | workshop: Explanations of Cognition, University of Stirling, UK |
| Jul 2015 | “Causation, Manipulation & Explanation” | University of Magdeburg, Germany |
| May 2015 | “Concepts of Cognition From William James to Predictive Coding” | workshop: Pragmatism and Cognitive Science, Koblenz, Germany |
| Apr 2015 | “There and Back Again: Predictive Coding As a New View on Cognition?” | Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Jun 2014 | “Levels as Perspectives” | workshop: Realizability and the Levels of Reality, IHPST, Paris, France |
| Jan 2014 | “Materials & Methods: On Finding Scientific Explanations” | workshop: Causality in the Biological Sciences: Workshop with Ken Waters, Köln, Germany |
| Aug 2013 | “Beyond Mutual Manipulation” | Research Colloquium, Universität zu Köln, Germany |
| Jul 2013 | commentary on Karen Neander’s “Locating Content in Science” | workshop: The Natural and the Normative, Fribourg, Switzerland |
| Jul 2012 | “Demystifying Constitutive Relevance” (with Beate Krickel) | workshop: The Metaphysics of Mind: Realization, Mechanisms, and Embodiment, Berlin, Germany |
| Jul 2011 | “Top-down Experiments & Downward Causation” | workshop: Levels and Causation in Neuroscience, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany |
| Jan 2011 | “’What’ & ‘How’/’Where’ in the Signing Brain” | HEAD Seminar Series, Linköping, Sweden |
conference activities
| Sep 2023 | organized symposium: “Explainable AI in Scientific Research” talk: “Deep Learning in Neuroscience: Overcoming the Trade-off Between Predictive Accuracy and Intelligibility“ (with Barnaby Crook) other contributors: E. Ratti, A. Facchini, A. Termine, P. Verreault- Julien, C. Zednik, H. Greif |
European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Belgrade, Serbia |
| Sep 2022 | talk: “Discovering Emergent Structure in AI Systems“ (with Barnaby Crook) | GAP.11, International Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Berlin, Germany |
| Aug 2022 | paper: “Multiplexes: New Directions for Computational Psychiatry?“ | International Congress German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP), Berlin, Germany |
| Sep 2019 | organized interdisciplinary panel: “Explainable Intelligent Systems and the Trustworthiness of Artificial Experts“ paper: “What Kind of Explanation Shall Artificial Experts Provide?” other penalists: K. Baum, T. Speith, E. Schmidt, D. Oster, A. Sesing, M. Langer |
European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), Athens, Greece |
| Sep 2019 | organized symposium: “Explanation in Psychiatry: From Pluralism to Integration – and Back Again?” paper: “Network models and their Variables” other contributors: M. Colombo, M. Eronen, J. Lenssen |
European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Geneva, Switzerland |
| Jul 2019 | organized panel: “What’s New in ‘The New Mechanical Philosophy’? – Book Symposium with Stuart Glennan” other panelists: C. Craver, S. Glennan, B. Krickel, D. van Eck, B. Radomski |
ISHPSSB 2019, Oslo, Norway |
| Nov 2018 | paper: “Identifying Causes in Psychiatry” | 26th Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Sep 2018 | talk: “Network Explanations in Psychiatry: Interventions and Causal Relations?” | Causality in the Neuro- and Psychological Sciences (CiNaPS), Antwerp, Belgium |
| Sep 2018 | talk: “Discovering Patterns: On the Norms of Mechanistic Inquiry” (with Philipp Haueis) |
GAP.10, International Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Köln, Germany |
| Jun 2016 | talk: “Causal Mechanisms – Not the One and Only” | Causality in the Sciences of the Mind and Brain, Aarhus, Denmark |
| Sep 2015 | talk: “Building Powerful Explanations: Mechanisms vs. Difference-Making” (with Beate Krickel) | European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Oct 2014 | paper: “The Power of Non-Interventions” | Neurons, Mechanisms, and the Mind: The History and Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience, Boulder, CO, USA |
| Aug 2013 | organized symposium: “Constitutive Relevance” paper: “Mutual Manipulation Isn’t the Full Story” |
European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Helsinki, Finland |
| Jun 2013 | paper: “Mechanistic Explanation & Interlevel Manipulation”, commentary by John Bickle | Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP), Providence, RI, USA |
| Dec 2011 | talk: “Phonological Processing Across Modalities: Evidence from Sign Language” | Sensory-motor Concepts in Language and Cognition, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Oct 2011 | paper: “Interventionism Cannot Cross” | European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Athens, Greece |
| Jun 2011 | paper: “Mechanistic Explanation and Interventionism: An Untruthful Marriage” | Models and Mechanisms in Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK |
| May 2011 | paper: “One to Rule Them All? Situated Cognition, Dynamical Systems Theory, and the Systematicity Challenge” (with Leon de Bruin) | Systematicity and the post-connectionist era: Taking stock of the architecture of cognition, San José, Spain |
posters
| Feb 2024 | “What is AI Ethics Anyway?” (authors: T. Helfer, L. Deck, L. Kästner, K. Miyahara, A. Schomäcker, T. Speith, H. Zhang) |
Bayreuth Lab for Digital Science Day, University of Bayreuth |
| Feb 2023 | “Explainable Intelligent Systems (EIS)” (authors: K. Baum, G. Borges, H. Hermanns, L. Kästner, C. König, M. Langer, U. Wessels) |
Bayreuth Lab for Digital Science Day, University of Bayreuth | Nov 2019 | “Explainable Intelligent Systems (EIS)” (authors: K. Baum, G. Borges, H. Hermanns, L. Kästner, C. König, M. Langer, U. Wessels) |
VW Kickoff Symposium: AI and the Society of the Future |
| Jun 2016 | “Epistemology of Neuroscience – An Interdisciplinary Master’s Class” | Best Practice Forum, Berlin Center for Higher Education Teaching |
| Jun 2014 |
“Manipulation without Intervention” |
Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP), Vancouver, Canada |
| Nov 2011 |
“Signs that violate phonological rules differentially activate parietal areas in deaf native signers” (authors: V. Cardin, E. Orfanidou, L. Kästner, C.M. Capek, J. Rönnberg, B. Woll, M. Rudner) |
Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Annapolis, Maryland |