SELECTED TALKS & COMMENTARIES
Invited talks indicated by “*”
Reportability does not entail consciousness: A study of two cases.
(63) To be presented as a symposium at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA). New York, NY. January 2025.
Involuntary Powers: A cognitive construal of social privilege
(62) To be presented at Macquarie University, Sydney NSW, Australia. December 2024. *
Is the Scaling Hypothesis Falsifiable?
(61) To be presented at the Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting, New Orleans, LA. November 2024.
Machines with a Cause
(60) Invited symposiast presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP), at Purdue University. June 2024. *
The Dive’s in the head, or the cognitive value of Dive(rse)-bars
(59) Part of the panel, “The aesthetics of the dive (bar),” at the American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division(e-ASA). Also served as panel organizer. April 2024.
Interaction of gendered labour norms and AI
(58) The annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in Cincinnati, OH. March 2024. *
Examining the constitutive relationship between individual intentions and joint action
(57) The annual meeting of the SSPP Cincinnati, OH. To be presented March 2024.
Virtually Synthesized Music, Aesthetic Deception, and AI Generated Music
(56) The American Society for Aesthetics Affiliated Program at the Central APA meeting, New Orleans, LA. February 2024.
Sketching a computational approach to cognitive ontology
(55) The Deep-South Philosophy of Neuroscience Affiliated Program Panel on Cognitive Ontology at the Central APA meeting, New Orleans, LA. February 2024.
How to build a mind without working memory
(54) The Center for Philosophy of Science Colloquium Series. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, February 2024.*
Why working memory doesn’t work anymore and what to do about it
(53) Cognitive Psychology Colloquium Series, Dept. of Psychology, Purdue. October 2023.*
Better together: An empirical investigation of strategic interaction and shared agency
(52) The Western Canadian Philosophical Association (WCPA). Vancouver, BC. October 2023.
The cognitive mosaic underlying working memory
(51) The Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach workshop. Moruya, Australia. October 2023.*
Identifying the (sub)person-level commitments of working memory
(50) PPLS Speakers Series, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, UK. October 2023.*
A diagnosis of working memory’s explanatory failures
(49) Invited colloquium at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. Berlin, DE. June 2023.*
The two faces of working memory
(48) The 2023 Pacific meeting of the APA in San Francisco. April 2023.
(47) The annual meeting of the SSPP in Louisville, KY. March 2023.
Why we still need a new normativism
(46) The annual meeting of the SSPP in Louisville, KY. March 2023.
Is Game Theory all there is?
(45) The annual meeting of the SSPP in Louisville, KY. March 2023.
What comes after working memory?
(44) The Bochum-Grenoble Memory Colloquium series. January 2023.*
Dirty Concepts: Philosophical laundering in cognitive science
(43) The Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS) Speaker Series. December 2022.*
Psychological components of shared agency
(42) The Ethics Center at Lake Forest College. October 2022.*
Rekindling a Pessimism in Philosophy of Psychology
(41) The University of Cincinnati. September 2022.*
Phantasia, working memory, and psychological explanation
(40) The annual meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) in Rome. June 2022.
Measured interactions of task and labor allocation to feminized AIs
(39) The annual meeting of Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) meeting at Purdue. University. September 2022.
(38) The annual meeting of the SSPP in Mobile, AL. April 2022.
A plea for integrated empirical and philosophical research on the impact of feminized AI workers
(37) The annual meeting of SSPP in Mobile, AL. April 2022.
Virtuosity without performance in gaming
(36) The annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) in Montreal, QC.
November 2021. Panel Organizer.
Why we need a new normativism about collective action
(35) Social Ontology 2021. Hosted by UCSD. August 2021 (delivered virtually).
Psychological implications of gendered AIs and their social impact.
(34) The first European Experimental Philosophy Conference. Prague, Czechia. June 2021.
A mosaic ontology of cognition*
(33) The Interdisciplinary Symposium on Cognitive Ontology hosted by the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg. May 26, 2021 (delivered virtually).
Videogames and rampant spectation: A detour through the ontology of musical instruments
(32) The annual meeting of ASA in Washington, DC. November 2020 (delivered virtually).
Productive pessimism and new ontologies of cognition
(31) The Problem of Cognitive Ontology Workshop at the Center for Philosophy of Science. Pittsburgh, PA. October 19, 2020. (delivered virtually).
Immigration and the moral self
(30) The first European Experimental Philosophy Conference (Xphi Europe) in Prague, Czechia. June 2020. (moved online due to COVID-19).
Why we need a new normativism
(29) The annual meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) in Athens, Greece. September 2019.
Cognition is not a natural kind
(28) Workshop on natural kinds and cognitive science hosted by York University in Toronto, Ontario. June 2019
Reportability does not entail consciousness: A study of two cases
(27) The annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) in London, Ontario. June 2019.
Things we do together
(26) The annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP) in Cincinnati. March 2019.
What comes after working memory?
(25) The Cognitive Sciences Speaker Series at the CUNY Graduate Center. March, 2019. *
Working memory is not a natural kind
(24) Neural Mechanisms Online Webconference. October 2018: https://tinyurl.com/y9hp9pgm
(23) The annual meeting of the SSPP in San Antonio. March 2018.
(22) The sixth annual Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science Workshop at the Universitat de Barcelona. April 2016. early draft.
(21) The ESPP annual meeting in Tartu, Estonia. July 2015. early draft.
The aesthetic self
(20) The annual meeting of the European Society of Aesthetics in Maribor, Solvenia. June 2018.
Pernicious disbelief
(19) The Digital Humanities & Experimental Philosophy Collaborative workshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands. December 2017.
Music and the aesthetic self
(18) The annual meeting of the ASA in New Orleans. November 2017.
Borders of the moral self
(17) The Self, Motivation, and Virtue project’s second grant awardee meeting in Norman, Oklahoma. June 2017. * https://tinyurl.com/y9mez5sr
Parole and the moral self
(16) The annual meeting of the SSPP in Savannah, Georgia. March 2017. Prize
Video games as social instruments
(15) The annual meeting of the ASA in New Orleans. November 2016.
Phantasia as working memory
(14) The Classics and Cognitive theory conference at NYU. October 2016.
Disbelief as mere belief
(13) The ESPP annual meeting in Saint Andrews, Scotland. August 2016.
Joint action as normatively constituted
(12) The SSPP annual meeting in Louisville, KY. March 2016.
(11) Collective Intentionality X Meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. August 2016.
Simulating the margins: Experiential simulation of stigmatization through video games
(10) The annual meeting of the ASA in Savannah. November 2015.
Boundaries of the moral self
(9) The ESSP annual meeting in Tartu, Estonia. July 2015.
(8) The SSPP annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. April 2015.
(7) The Interdisciplinary Moral Forum organized and held by Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. March 2015. *
The end of working memory
(6) The Cognitive Sciences Speaker Series at the CUNY Graduate Center. 2014. *
(5) ESPP annual meeting in Granada, Spain. July 2013.
A review of objections to standard models of working memory
(4) The ESPP annual meeting in Noto, Italy. September 2014.
Describing a New Neuro-ontology for Central Executive Processes
(3) The SSPP annual meeting in Charleston, SC. February 2014. Prize
Frontal-parietal network differences for item and category working memory
(2) The SSPP annual meeting in Savannah, GA. March 2012.
Language, embodiment and structure.
(1) The SSPP annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. March 2011.
Commentaries
(11) Mary Gregg (Yonsei University), “Cat and Mouse: How Cartoon Violence Uniquely Debunks Morreall’s Incongruity Theory” at the e-ASA, April 2024.
(10) Charlie Maybee (College of Charleston), “Tap Dancing Cyborgs” at the annual National Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA). November 2023.
(9) Julian Dodd (University of Leeds) and Nemesio García-Carril Puy (University of Murcia), “Composers’ mistakes and their correction in performance” at the e-ASA. April 2023.
(8) E. Terrone’s “The Paradox of Taste to the Experimental Test” at the annual National
Meeting of the ASA. November 2022.
(7) O. Kiianlinna’s “Aesthetic Gadgets and Predictive Minds: Universalism in Evolutionary
Aesthetics Today” at the e-ASA. April 2022.
(6) J. Cutmore’s “Mere memes and likes” at the e-ASA. April 2019.
(5) M. Ravasio’s “Tactile values in video games,” at the e-ASA. April 2018.
(4) E. Guter’s “Beyond the museum conception of computer art,” at the e-ASA. April 2017.
(3) N. Strohminger’s, “Personal identity and attribution: A battle to the death,” at the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association. January 2016.
(2) F. de Brigard’s “Vivacity and the distinction between memory and imagination,” at the
American Association of Mexican Philosophers at Columbia University. April 2015.
(1) Kostko, & J. Bickle’s “Causal explanation in social neuroscience: Two analyses,” SSPP 2015.
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