Philipp Haueis

@phaueis.eurosky.social

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Philosopher of science working on concepts, experiments, discovery, models, explanation, and societal issues, especially in neuroscience and climate research. Currently assistant prof @ Bielefeld University, Germany website: philipp-haueis.de

Speaker Philipp Haueis in front of a wall displaying a power point slide entitled „concepts without joints, brains without maps, and three images: an orange cognitive priority map, a picture of Dharmakirti, and a picture of an elephant. Below text saying „workshop on concepts and normativity“, Leibniz University Hannover, June 23 2026.
Photo showing Philipp Haueis in front of an audience pf philosophers, behind him a slide with a conceptual model of the term „cortical column“ in neuroscience, showing a Greek temple to illustrate that neuroscientists in the 1970s thought that the brain was similarly organized into vertical pillars.
Image showing several uses of the term „cortical column“ and how it failed to bring a building block in the brain into focus for neuroscientists: the term does not describe discrete functional unit, but various kinds of structures in specific domains that vary in functional significance.
Image shows a brain, with arrows going from epistemic goals to three boxes labeled introducing concepts, revising concepts and retiring/revising concepts, because the goals shape when these forms of developing concepts succeed or fail to advance our neuroscientific understand the brain.
A chalkboard showing a patchwork model of the gene concept. On the left is the classical gene patch, with the technique of cross-breeding, scale of whole organisms, and the property of patterns of inheritance. On the right is the molecular gene patch, with X Ray crystallography as technique, the molecular scale and the property of DNA. The patches partially overlap because the DNA is involved in intergenerational inheritance between parent and offspring, but also explains how proteins are produced while offspring develops.
Philosopher Patrick McGivern, wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, explaining the „metabolic turn“, i.e. the importance of metabolism for understanding cognition
Philosopher Matthew Sims, wearing a black shirt and beige pants showing a slide on ctenophores, a creature with external passive sensory receptors and epithelial sheets for locomotion
Neuroscientist Jordan Theriault wearing a blue shirt and black pants pointing at a slide that shows the relation between glucose metabolism and signals measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Philosopher David Colaço, eating a black suit jacket, white shirt and black tie in front of an image with a white balloon with „energy“ written in blue, a blue sky and white clouds on the back, some green tree canopies in front.
Philosopher Sapnar Kumar talking about on the role of indigenous knowledge in the International Panel on Climate Change
The philosopher Anastasiia Lazutkina in front of a screen displaying diagrams of the origins of galaxies merging from other galaxies.
The philosopher Oscar Westerblad in front of a screen displaying problems with monism in philosophy discussions about progress.
A man standing on a podium, pointing to a slide about analogies and model organisms in neuroscience
A picture of a computer screen, showing the beginning of a word page with the title „What is conceptual impact? Word choice and conceptual engineering in science and society“ in bold letters. The rest shows the abstract and a numbered table of contents.
Uljana Feest in Front of a slide on normative challenges of exploratory research
Marina di Marco in front of a slide showing a table on how epidemiologists measure biological sex.
Joeri Witteven in front of a slide showing a snow leopard and a diagram shifting from orange circle (endangered) to a yellow circle (not endangered)
The neuroscientist David Hubel operating a projector, together with his colleague Torsten Wiesel in their laboratory
Five people sitting next to each other and discussing about climate activism and philosophy, looking thoughtful and engaged.