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Service to the Profession

Leadership Roles

Committee Membership and Other Leadership Roles

Services to the Department

Services to the Department

Reviewing of Research Applications

Reviewing of Research Applications

  • Member of the Award Committee for the Mannagetta Writing Up Fellowship Program 2025 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), 2026
     

  • Member of the Research Project Selection Panel Cult5 (Philosophy and Ethics) of the Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, FWO), 2024-2025
     

  • Reviewing fellowship applications for the Konrad Lorenz Institute (KLI) for the Advanced Study of Natural Complex Systems, 2023-
     

  • Member of the Review College of the Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, FWO), 2022-
     

  • Member of the Award Committee for the Go.Investigatio Fellowship Program 2021 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2022
     

  • Member of the College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation (ESF), 2021-
     

  • Reviewing for the Who Am I? Laboratorium of Excellence (Labex) Project, 2021-2024
     

  • Reviewing of fellowship applications for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2021-
     

  • Reviewing for the Research Foundation Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen – FWO), February 2021

Refereeing

Refereeing

Organisation of Conferences

  • Regular Reviewing of Manuscripts for Journals: Analysis; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Dialectica; Erkenntnis; European Journal for Philosophy of Science; History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry; The Journal of Philosophical Research; Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences; Philosophia: A Global Journal of Philosophy; Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophical Studies; Philosophy of Science; Ratio; Synthese
     

  • Reviewing for Publishing Houses: Oxford University Press, Routledge 
     

  • Member of Conference Programme Committees: Fourth International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP), 15th-17th August 2022, Berlin, Germany; Conference “Real Possibilities, Indeterminism and Free Will”, organised by Professor Thomas Müller, 18th-21st March 2015, Constance/Germany

Organisation of Conferences

  • “Free Will: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Biology and Neuroscience”, 2-day interdisciplinary conference, 11th-12th June 2025, Vienna, Austria (co-funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)), with talks by Björn Brembs (Regensburg), Geert Keil (HU Berlin), Christian List (LMU Munich), Anne Sophie Meincke (Vienna), Alfred Mele (Florida State University), Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin), Stephen Mumford (Durham), Henry D. Potter (Trinity College Dublin), Helen Steward (Leeds), Peter U. Tse (Dartmouth)
     

  • “Life”, Science Day of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), 19th September 2023, co-organised with Dagmar Woebken and funded by the Young Academy
     

  • “Persistence in Stability”, 2-day workshop, University of Bonn/Germany, 4th-5th July 2022 (originally planned for March 2020, postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic), co-organised with Florian Fischer
     

  • “Process Biology”, 3-day interdisciplinary conference of the research project A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology; co-organised with J. Dupré, S. Güttinger, D. Nicholson, The Royal Society of Great Britain, London/UK, 21st-23rd March 2018
     

  • “Process Epistemology”, 1-day workshop, key-note speaker: William Bechtel (San Diego), commentators: John Dupré & Sabina Leonelli, further speakers included: Anne Sophie Meincke, Stephan Güttinger, Daniel Nicholson, Niccoló Tempini, Adam Toon (all Exeter); co-organised with S. Leonelli, S. Güttinger, D. Nicholson, University of Exeter/UK, 25th May 2017
     

  • “Organisms: Living Systems and Processes”, 2-day interdisciplinary conference of the research project A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology with contributions by Eva Boon (Eindhoven), John Dupré (Exeter), Antony Galton (Exeter), Stephan Güttinger (Exeter), Sui Huang (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle), Johannes Jaeger (Konrad Lorenz Institute, Klosterneuburg), Marie I. Kaiser (Bielefeld), Anne Sophie Meincke (Exeter), Alvaro Moreno (San Sebastián), Daniel Nicholson (Exeter), Bernd Rosslenbroich (Witten-Herdecke), Astrid Schrader (Exeter), Davide Vecchi (Lisbon); co-organised with John Dupré, EGENIS, The Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter/UK, 9th-10th March 2017 (speakers were partly selected through a call for papers)
     

  • “Biological Identity”, 2-day international conference with contributions by Ellen Clarke (Oxford), John Dupré (Exeter), Arantza Etxeberria (San Sebastián), Philippe Huneman (Paris), Anne Sophie Meincke (Exeter), Alvaro Moreno (San Sebastián), Matteo Mossio (Paris), David S. Oderberg (Reading), Eric T. Olson (Sheffield), Thomas Pradeu (Bordeaux), Paul Snowdon (London), Denis Walsh (Toronto); co-organised with J. Dupré, Institute of Philosophy, London/UK, 2nd-3rd June 2016
     

  •  “Determinism/ Indeterminism in Nature. Agency – Genetics – Quantum Mechanics”, 1-day interdisciplinary workshop with John Dupré (Exeter) and contributions by Michael Brownnutt (Dep. of Experimental Physics, Innsbruck), Josef Quitterer (Dep. of Christian Philosophy, Innsbruck), Anne Sophie Spann (née Meincke) (Dep. of Christian Philosophy, Innsbruck), Gabriele Werner-Felmayer (Dep. of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University Innsbruck) & Johannes Zschocke (Dep. of Human Genetics, Medical University, Innsbruck); Innsbruck/Austria, 13th March 2014
     

  • “The Ontological Commitments of Dispositionalism”, 3-day international conference of the Austrian Science Fund-Research Project Powers and the Identity of Agents with contributions by Rani Lill Anjum (UMB Oslo), Ruth Groff (St. Louis University), John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis), Jonathan Jacobs (St. Louis University), Max Kistler (Sorbonne, Paris), Anna Marmodoro (Oxford), Stephen Mumford (Nottingham), Josef Quitterer (Innsbruck), Edmund Runggaldier (Innsbruck), Anne Sophie Spann (née Meincke) (Innsbruck), Neil Williams (Buffalo), Innsbruck/Austria; co-organised with D. Wehinger, 31st July - 2nd August 2013
     

  • “Vermögen und Handlung. Der dispositionale Realismus und unser Selbstverständnis als Handelnde”, 3-day conference of the Austrian Science Fund-Research Project Powers and the Identity of Agents with contributions by Georg Gasser (Innsbruck), Philipp Hübl (Stuttgart), Eva-Maria Jung (Münster), Christian Kanzian (Innsbruck), Geert Keil (Berlin), Erasmus Mayr (Oxford), Uwe Meixner (Augsburg), Markus Schrenk (Köln), Anne Sophie Spann (née Meincke) (Innsbruck), Barbara Vetter (Berlin); co-organised with D. Wehinger, Innsbruck/Austria, 26th-28th September 2012

Organisation of a Conference Session with Refereed Presentations

Organisation of Guest Lecures

  • “Process Perspectives in EvoDevo: From Metaphysics to Practice”, with talks by Dr. Isabella Sarto-Jackson (“What´s in a Trait? How Process Philosophy Can Inform Evolutionary Neurodevelopmental (NeuroEvoDevo) Research”), Dr. Markus Kunze (“Studying Modell Organisms to Elucidate the Dynamics of Developmental Processes”) and me (“The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution: From Thing Ontology to Process Ontology”), Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Porto, Portugal, 25th July 2025
     

  • “The Biology and Metaphysics of Free Will” with talks by myself (“Maximising Efficiency in an Indeterministic World: The Free Will of Biological Agents”), Professor Björn Brembs (“The Neurobiology of Probabilistic Actions”) & Professor Eva Jablonka (“The Feeling of Free Will“), Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Laurel Hollow, NY, USA, 14th July 2021 (online due to the COVID-19 pandemic) 

Organisation and Chairing of Public Lectures 

Chairing

  • Professor Claudia Benthien & Professor Julia Lajta-Novak (Vienna, Austria, 3rd November 2025; Young Academy Distinguished Lecture, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW))
     

  • Professor Alfred Mele (Vienna, Austria, 10th June 2025; Young Academy Distinguished Lecture, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW))
     

  • Professor W. Hugh Woodin, Professor Jan von Plato, Dr. Sandra Müller (Vienna, Austria, 9th October 2024; Young Academy Distinguished Lecture, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW))
     

  • Professor Stella Villarmea (Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology lecture series, Vienna, Austria, 25th January 2024)
     

  • Professor Heidi Grasswick (Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology lecture series, Vienna, Austria, 20th May 2021, online due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
     

  • Professor Steven French (Exeter, UK, 22nd May 2017: guest lecture plus small workshop)
     

  • Professor John Dupré (Innsbruck, Austria, 12th March 2014: guest lecture plus interdisciplinary 1-day workshop)
     

  • Professor Thomas Buchheim (Innsbruck, Austria, 14th November 2012)
     

  • PD Dr Ludger Jansen (Innsbruck, Austria, 2nd May 2012)
     

  • Professor Marcus Willaschek (Munich, Germany, 3rd November 2010)

Chairing at Conferences with Refereed Presentations

Memberships

  • Conference “Convergence? Interfaces of the Digital and the Living”, interdisciplinary conference organised by Christoph Bock, chairing of various sessions, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna, Austria, 17th-18th October 2023
     

  • Workshop “Formal Accounts of Powers, Processes and Change”, organised by the Scientific Network “Change and Change-Makers”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), online, 9th-10th December 2021
     

  • Conference “Compatibilist Libertarianism: Advantages and Challenges”, organised by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy in collaboration with the Düsseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Inductive Metaphysics research group, online, 29th October 2021
     

  • 3rd Conference of the German Society of the Philosophy of Science (GWP), Session “Biomedicine”, University of Cologne, Germany, 25th February 2019
     

  • 10th International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP.10) Plurality in Philosophy and Beyond, University of Cologne/Germany, Section “Metaphysics and Ontology”, Cologne/Germany, 18th September 2018
     

  • 92nd Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Session “Persons”, University of Oxford/UK, 7th July 2018
     

  • Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Session “Scientific Change”, University of Exeter/UK, 8th September 2017
     

  • Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Session “Identity and Individuality”, University of São Paulo/Brazil, 18th July 2017
     

  • 2nd Conference of the German Society of the Philosophy of Science (GWP), Session “Philosophy of the Life Sciences”, Düsseldorf/Germany, 10th March 2016
     

  • 10th Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, Session “Metaphysics and Ontology”, Innsbruck/Austria, 4th June 2015

Memberships of Professional Organisations and Learned Societies

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  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (German Society for Philosophy) (DGPhil)
     

  • European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA)
     

  • Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (German Society for Analytic Philosophy) (GAP)
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  • Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie (German Society for the Philosophy of Science) (GWP)
     

  • The International Simone de Beauvoir Society, https://beauvoir.weebly.com/
     

  • International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB)
     

  • Junge Akademie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
     

  • Österreichische Gesellschaft für Philosophie (OeGP)
     

  • S.P.O.T. (Society for Philosophy of Time), http://s-p-o-t.weebly.com/

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