Recent and Upcoming Talks

  • “What Is Time?” (part of a symposium on Time and Explanation), to be presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, Portland, 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.
  • “Novels and Symphonies as Concrete Artifacts,” 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.