Recent and Upcoming Talks

  • “Causation, Agent Causation, and Free Will” to be presented at Brandeis University, TBD.
  • “Our Bodies, Our Selves: Composition, Constitution, and the Question of What We Are,” presented at the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology, Berkeley, CA, 12 November 2025.
  • “What Is Acquaintance?” (comments on Emad Atiq’s “Agency, Normativity, and Acquaintance”), presented at the New England Workshop on Acquaintance at Rhode Island College, 24 October 2025.
  • “The Open Future,” presented at The College of the Holy Cross, 3 October 2025.
  • “What Is Time?” presented at a workshop called Beyond the Present: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Time, at The University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, 4 July 2025.
  • “What Is Time?” presented at The Second Annual LanCog Summer Metaphysics Workshop at The University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 24 June 2025.
  • “Fiocco’s Account of Time (And Some Other Accounts)” (contribution to a book symposium on M. Oreste Fiocco, Time and the World: Every Thing and Then Some), presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, San Francisco, 18 April 2025.
  • “What Is Time?” presented at the 9th Boston Phenomenology Circle Symposium, Boston, 4 April 2025.
  • “Are There Different Ways of Being?” (comments on a symposium talk, “Ontological Pluralism and the ‘Thin’ Conception of Being,” by Byron Simmons), presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, New York, 4 January 2025.
  • “Causation, Agent Causation, and Free Will,” presented at the New England Workshop on Metaphysics — Consciousness and Agency at Rhode Island College, 27 October 2024, Providence, RI.
  • “Causation, Agent Causation, and Free Will,” presented at the Cornell Workshop on Mind and Value III — The Self in the Space of Reasons, Ithaca, NY, 6 September 2024.
  • “Novels and Symphonies as Concrete Artifacts,” presented as a LEME Seminar at The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 14 June 2024.
  • “What Is Time?” presented at the 1st LEME Workshop (IFCS, PPGLM-UFRJ), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 13 June 2024.
  • “What Is Time?” (part of a symposium on Time and Explanation), presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, Portland, 20 March 2024.
  • “Are There Hippos that Can Turn Into Skyscrapers?” (comments on a symposium talk, “Essential Plenitude,” by Antonio Tiongson), presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, New York, 18 January 2024.