Yafeng Shan 單亞峰

• “Understanding Biological Phenomena.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Porto, Portugal, 25/07/2025
• "What is Scientific Progress?". 'Mapping the Invisible: Physics, Philosophy, and Scientific Progress' Workshop, Peking University, China, 08/07/2025
• "Explanation and Understanding in Social Science." Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK, 21/05/2025.
• "An HPS Reflection on Scientific Revolutions". Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 27/04/2025
• “Social Scientific Understanding.” The 28th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, 13/12/2024
• "Scientific Knowledge." Department of Philosophy, Xiamen University, China, 05/12/2024
• “Scientific Understanding.” Department of Philosophy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 25/11/2024
• “Understanding in the Social Sciences.” Veritas Philosophy Workshop: Logic & Epistemology, Yonsei University, South Korea, 17/07/2024
• "Proximate and Ultimate Causation." Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, 24/05/2024.
• "Proximate and Ultimate Causation in Evolutionary Biology.” Department of Philosophy of Science and Logic, Fudan University, China, 13/05/2024
• “Scientific Knowledge as Social Knowing: Summative, Commitment, Interactive?.” Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, China, 10/05/2024
• “Proximate and Ultimate Causation in Evolutionary Biology.” Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 08/05/2024
• "A Functional Approach to Scientific Knowledge as Social Knowing." The Annual New Zealand Association of Philosophers Conference, University of Waikato, Tauranga, New Zealand, 06/12/2023
• "The Web of Scientific Development: The Origins of Genetics." International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Toronto, Canada, 10/07/2023
• “The Social Nature of Scientific Knowledge.” The 9th Congress of the Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of Paris Nanterre, France, 01/06/2023
• “Scientific Knowledge as Social Knowing Reconsidered.” The CONCEPT FEST, University of Cologne, Germany, 31/03/2023
• "The Demarcation Problem Reconsidered." The "120 Years Since the Birth of Karl Popper" Conference, Sofia University, Bulgaria, 03/12/2022
• "Proximate and Ultimate Causation in Biology Reconsidered." The 7th Panhellenic Conference on Philosophy of Science, University of Athens, Greece, 02/12/2022
• “Rethinking Kuhn’s Legacy.” III Coloquio de filosofía e historia de la ciencia del Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 08/11/2022
• “In What Sense is Scientific Knowledge Social?” The Workshop on Knowing Science, University of Kent, UK, 25/10/2022
• “Causation in Biology.” Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics Seminar, Jagiellonian University, Poland, 20/10/2022
• "The Myths of Mendel." Centre for Science Studies Colloquium, Aarhus University, Denmark, 28/09/2022
• “History and Philosophy of Mixed Methods Research.” The “Mixed Methods: Development of Innovative Methods” Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 06/09/2022
• “Evidential Pluralism and Political Science.” The 4th Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science, Tartu, Estonia, 18/08/2022
• “Is Evidence of Mechanisms Sufficient for Making Within-case Causal Claims?” The 4th International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, Berlin, Germany, 15/08/2022
• “The 1900 'Rediscovery'.” “Mendel at 200”, Bristol, UK, 20/07/2022 [watch]
• “Rethinking Progress.” “Understanding Progress and Progress in Understanding” Conference, University of Iceland, Iceland, 30/06/2022
• “Mayr's Proximate-Ultimate Distinction Reconsidered." The 14th International History of Philosophy of Science Conference, Irvine, USA, 21/06/2022
• “Evidential Pluralism and Legal Mechanism.” The “Diversity of Evidence” Symposium, University of Kent, UK, 30/05/2022
• “How to Establish a Causal Claim in the Social Sciences." The 4th 'Formal Methods and Science in Philosophy' Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 21/04/2022
• “Two Criteria of Concept Identification in Biology.” “Structure and Development of Concepts across the Life Sciences” Conference, Bielefeld University, Germany, 07/02/2022
• “Disambiguating Proximate and Ultimate 'Causes'." International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Huntington, USA, 13/07/2021
• “Applying Evidential Pluralism to the Social Sciences.” British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, 08/07/2021
• “What is the New Functional Approach to Scientific Progress?” “Understanding & Progress, in Science and Beyond” Zoom Workshop, University of Iceland, Iceland, 04/08/2020
• “Making Causal Claims in Sociology.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences Roundtable, Atlanta, USA, 14/03/2020
• “What Philosophical Progress is not.” “Philosophical Method(s)?” International Conference, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia, 06/12/2019
• ​“Scientific Development: Beyond Evolution, Revolution, and Specialisation.” The “Revolution and Evolution: Development Models in Science, Culture and Society” Conference, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 29/11/2019
• “Weldon, No Biometricians?" International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Oslo, Norway, 10/07/2019
• "Scientific Explanation: Beyond Contrastivism and Non-Contrastivism." The 19th Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Jerusalem, Israel, 16/06/2019
• "Analogical Reasoning: Lessons from Davy's work on Electrochemical Decomposition." The 26th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, USA, 02/11/2018
• "The Formation of the Concept of Dominance." "Concept Formation in Natural and Social Sciences" Workshop, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 19/10/2018
• “Davy on Analogical Reasoning.” The 22th International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Annual Conference 2018, University of Bristol, UK, 17/07/2018
• “Theory Choice in the Mendelian Revolution.” “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” Workshop, Durham University, UK, 30/10/2017
• “Choice in the Mendelian-Biometrician Controversy: Why Weldon was not a Mendelian.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 19/07/2017
• “Two Ways of Naturalising Metaphysics.” “Epistemology of Metaphysics” Ernst Mach Workshop 6, Prague, Czech Republic, 29/05/2017
• “What is Recollection in the Meno?” British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Sheffield, UK, 06/04/2017
• “Conceptual Change and the Nature of Scientific Concepts.” “Conceptual Change in History” Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, 23/09/2016
• “Exemplarising Mendel.” The 3rd Philosophy of Biology in the UK Conference, University of Bristol, UK, 08/06/2016
• “Progressive Success: A Successful Defence of Selective Realism?” The History of Science and Contemporary Scientific Realism Conference, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA, 21/02/2016
• “What did de Vries rediscover in 1900?” The 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki, Finland, 07/08/2015
• “Gärtner and Mendel on Entwicklung.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Montreal, Canada, 06/07/2015
• “Did Mendel Have Good Evidence? The Gap Problem in Hypothetico-Deductivism.” The 10th Annual UK Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, Durham University, UK, 16/04/2015
• “Kuhn’s ‘Wrong Turning’ Revisited.” The 10th International History of Philosophy of Science Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 03/07/2014
• “The Re-examination of Mendel’s Objective.” “Mutual Interactions.” The 2nd Singapore Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in Practice, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 20/08/2014
• “What Entities Exist? A Lesson from the ‘Gene’.” The “New Thinking about Scientific Realism” Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 07/08/2014
• “Reconsidering Mendel’s Pisum.” The 9th Annual UK Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Leeds, UK, 11/04/2014
• “Against Theory-Centric Classical Genetics.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Biennial Conference, Montpellier, France, 08/07/2013