Recent and Upcoming Talks

  • “Novels and Symphonies as Concrete Artifacts,” to be presented at the University of Lisbon, 23 June 2023.
  • “Characterizing Presentism and Eternalism” (comments on Mark Hinchliff, “The Significance of Presentism”), presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, San Francisco, 5 April 2023.
  • “Against Egomaniacal Capitalist Moral Posers” (comments on Meghan Sullivan, “Mediocrity in the Age of Crypto-Philanthropy”), presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, San Francisco, 5 April 2023.
  • “Novels and Symphonies as Concrete Artifacts,” presented at the 2023 Ranch Metaphysics Workshop, Tucson, 26 January 2023.
  • “Against Additivity” (comments on a symposium talk, “Value or Quantity,” by Alain Pe-Curto), presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, Montreal, 4 January 2023.
  • “Novels and Symphonies as Concrete Artifacts,” presented at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Northern New England Philosophical Association, at the University of New Hampshire, 21 October 2022.
  • “Novels and Symphonies as Concrete Artifacts,” presented at Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris 2, 27 May 2022.
  • “Nothing Erases the Past: Time, Time Travel, and Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” presented at a conference on Ted Chiang and Philosophy, Union College, 14 May 2022.
  • “Episodic People” (comments on an invited symposium talk by Jennifer Wang), presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, Vancouver, 15 April 2022.
  • “Social Structural Objects and The Problem of the Many” (comments on an invited symposium talk by Michaela McSweeney), presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, Vancouver, 15 April 2022.
  • “Novels and Musical Works as Physical Objects,” presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Montreal, 20 November 2021.
  • “Is There a Simple Solution to The Two Envelope Problem?” presented at Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris 2, 13 July 2021.
  • “Three New Arguments for The Dynamic Theory of Time,” presented at Springfield College, 15 February 2021.
  • “A Fundamental Level of Atomic Properties?” (comments on Paul Nedelisky, “How to Get to a Fundamental Level (Without Even Leaving Your Armchair)”), presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, Zoom City, 9 January 2021.
  • “Three New Arguments for The Dynamic Theory of Time,” presented as a work-in-progress talk at MIT, 15 October 2020.
  • “Three New Arguments for The Dynamic Theory of Time,” presented at The California Metaphysics Conference, 17 January 2020.