conferences and workshops

SELECTED TALKS & COMMENTARIES

Invited Presentations

  1. “Group th(oughts): The role of conflicting intuitions in perceptions of joint action”. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, annual meeting submitted symposium. February 2026.
  2. “Smuggling a LoT through the phonological loop”. Memory and Language of Thought workshop. Center for Philosophy of Memory. Grenoble, France. December, 2025.
  3. “The shape of working memory.” The Center for Philosophy of Memory, invited talk. Grenoble, France. November, 2025.
  4. “Pessimism in psychology.” The Association Association Workshop. Gainesville, FL. January, 2025.
  5. “Videogames in the classroom.” American Society for Philosophy Teachers Affiliate Program Meeting at the American Philosophical Association. New York, NY. January, 2025. Invited Keynote.
  6. “Involuntary Powers: A cognitive construal of social privilege.” Ethics and Agency Centre Panel. Macquarie University, NSW Australia. December, 2024.
  7. “Machines with a cause.” Symposium on current issues in AI. Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Purdue University. June, 2024. (With B. Rushing)
  8. “Interaction of gendered labour norms and AI.” Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Cincinnati, Ohio. March, 2024.
  9. “How to build a mind without working memory.” Lunchtime Speakers Series. Center for Philosophy of Science. University of Pittsburgh. February, 2024.
  10. “Why working memory doesn’t work anymore and what to do about it.” Cognitive Psychology Colloquium Series. Department of Psychology, Purdue University. October, 2023.
  11. “The cognitive mosaic underlying working memory.” The 16th annual Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach (PBDB) workshop. Moruya, NSW Australia. October, 2023.
  12. “The cognitive mosaic underlying working memory.” The Interdisciplinary Symposium on Cognitive Ontology. Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg. May, 2021. (Earlier version).
  13. “Identifying the (sub)person-level commitments of working memory.” PPLS Speakers Series. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh. October, 2023.
  14. “A diagnosis of working memory’s explanatory failures.” Invited colloquium at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. June, 2023.
  15. “What comes after working memory?” The Bochum-Grenoble Memory Colloquium Series. Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes. January, 2023.
  16. “What comes after working memory?” The Cognitive Sciences Speaker Series at the CUNY Graduate Center. March, 2019. (Earlier version).
  17. “Dirty concepts: Philosophical laundering in cognitive science.” The Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS) Speaker Series. December, 2022.
  18. “Psychological components of shared agency.” The Ethics Center. Lake Forest College. October, 2022.
  19. “Rekindling a pessimism in philosophy of psychology.” Annual Colloquium Series. Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati. September, 2022.
  20. “Boundaries of the moral self.” The Interdisciplinary Moral Forum. Marquette University. March, 2015. (With S. Nichols, N. Strohminger, and J. Prinz).
  21. “The end of working memory.” The Cognitive Sciences Speaker Series at the CUNY Graduate Center. 2014.

 

Refereed Presentations

  1. “Involuntary powers.” Society for Philosophy and Psychology meeting. Cornell. June, 2025.
  2. “Reportability does not entail consciousness: A study of two cases.” Symposium session. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division meeting. New York, NY. January, 2025.
  3. “Reportability does not entail consciousness: A study of two cases.” Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Western University. June, 2019. (Far earlier iteration).
  4. “Is the Scaling Hypothesis Falsifiable?” Philosophy of Science Association Biennial meeting. New Orleans, LA. November 2024. (With B. Rushing).
  5. “The Dive’s in the head, or the cognitive value of Dive(rse)-bars.” American Society of Aesthetics, Eastern Division meeting. Philadelphia, PA. April, 2024. Panel organizer.
  6. “Examining the constitutive relationship between individual intentions and joint action.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Cincinnati, OH. March, 2024. (With M. Wiebus).
  7. “Virtually Synthesized Music, Aesthetic Deception, and AI Generated Music.” American Society for Aesthetics affiliated program, American Philosophical Association, Central Division meeting. New Orleans, LA. February, 2024. (With L. Barer).
  8. “Sketching a computational approach to cognitive ontology.” The Deep-South Philosophy of Neuroscience affiliated program, American Philosophical Association, Central Division meeting. New Orleans, LA. February, 2024. (With E. Feiten).
  9. “Better together: An empirical investigation of strategic interaction and shared agency.” Western Canadian Philosophical Association. Vancouver, BC. October, 2023. (With M. Rachar).
  10. “The two faces of working memory” Colloquium session. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division meeting. San Francisco, CA. April, 2023.
  11. “The two faces of working memory” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Louisville, KY. March, 2023.
  12. “Why we still need a new normativism.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Louisville, KY. March, 2023. (With M. Rachar).
  13. “Is game theory all there is?” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Louisville, KY. March, 2023. (With M. Rachar).
  14. “Phantasia, working memory, and psychological explanation.” The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) annual meeting. Rome, Italy. June, 2022.
  15. “Measured interactions of task and labor allocation to feminized AIs.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. Purdue University. September, 2022.
  16. “Measured interactions of task and labor allocation to feminized AIs.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Mobile, AL. April, 2022. (With H. Read).
  17. “Measured interactions of task and labor allocation to feminized AIs.” European Experimental Philosophy Conference. Prague, Czechia. June, 2021. (With H. Read).
  18. “A plea for integrated empirical and philosophical research on the impact of feminized AI workers.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Mobile, AL. April, 2022. (With H. Read).
  19. “Virtuosity without performance in gaming.” American Society for Aesthetics, National meeting. Montreal, QC. November, 2021. Panel organizer.
  20. “Why we need a new normativism about collective action.” Social Ontology. UCSD. August, 2021. (With M. Rachar).
  21. “Why we need a new normativism about collective action.” The European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Athens. September, 2019. (Earlier iteration with M. Rachar).
  22. “Videogames and rampant spectation: A detour through the ontology of musical instruments.” American Society for Aesthetics, National meeting. Washington, DC. November, 2020.
  23. “Productive pessimism and new ontologies of cognition.” The Problem of Cognitive Ontology Workshop at the Center for Philosophy of Science. Pittsburgh, PA. October, 2020.
  24. “Immigration and the moral self.” European Experimental Philosophy Conference. Prague, Czechia. June, 2020. (With J. Fingerhut, and J. Prinz).
  25. “Cognition is not a natural kind.” Workshop on natural kinds and cognitive science. York University. June, 2019.
  26. “Things we do together.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Cincinnati, OH. March, 2019. (With M. Rachar).
  27. “Working memory is not a natural kind.” Neural Mechanisms Online Webconference. October, 2018.
  28. “Working memory is not a natural kind.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. San Antonio, TX. March, 2018.
  29. “Working memory is not a natural kind.” Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science Workshop. Universitat de Barcelona. April, 2016. (Early draft).
  30. “Working memory is not a natural kind.” The European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Tartu, Estonia. July, 2015. (Early draft).
  31. “The aesthetic self.” European Society of Aesthetics. Maribor, Solvenia. June, 2018. (With J. Fingerhut & J. Prinz).
  32. “The aesthetic self.” American Society for Aesthetics, National meeting. New Orleans, LA. November, 2017. (With J. Fingerhut & J. Prinz).
  33. “Pernicious disbelief.” The Digital Humanities & Experimental Philosophy Collaborative workshop. Amsterdam. December, 2017.
  34. “Parole and the moral self.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Savannah, GA. March, 2017. Prize.
  35. “Videogames as social instruments.” American Society for Aesthetics, National meeting. New Orleans, LA. November, 2016.
  36. “Phantasia as working memory.” Classics and Cognitive Theory Conference. New York University. October, 2016.
  37. “Disbelief as mere belief.” European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Saint Andrews. August, 2016.
  38. “Joint action as normatively constituted” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Louisville, KY. March, 2016. (With M. Rachar).
  39. “Joint action as normatively constituted” Collective Intentionality X Meeting. The Hauge. August, 2016. (With M. Rachar).
  40. “Simulating the margins: Experiential simulation of stigmatization through video games.” American Society for Aesthetics, National meeting. Savannah, GA. November, 2015.
  41. “Boundaries of the moral self” European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Tartu, Estonia. July, 2015. (With J. Prinz).
  42. “Boundaries of the moral self” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. New Orleans, LA. April, 2015. (With J. Prinz).
  43. “A review of objections to standard models of working memory.” European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Noto. July, 2014.
  44. “Describing a New Neuro-ontology for Central Executive Processes.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Charleston, SC. February, 2014. Prize.
  45. “The end of working memory.” European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Grenada. July, 2013.
  46. “Frontal-parietal network differences for item and category working memory.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Savannah, GA. March, 2012. (With K. Braunlich)
  47. “Language, embodiment and structure.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Atlanta, GA. March, 2011.

 

Invited Commentaries

  1. Munroe, “Is intrusive speech blameworthy speech” at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP) meeting. February, 2026.
  2. Herman, “Grounding moral debiasing within empirical moral psychology” at the SSPP meeting. March, 2025.
  3. Fisher, “The value of contemporaneity in Contemporary Art” at the American Society of Aesthetics Eastern Division meeting (e-ASA). April, 2025.
  4. Gregg, “Cat and Mouse: How Cartoon Violence Uniquely Debunks Morreall’s Incongruity Theory” at the e-ASA. April, 2024.
  5. Maybee, “Tap Dancing Cyborgs” at the National Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA). November, 2023.
  6. Dodd and N. García-Carril Puy, “Composers’ mistakes and their correction in performance” at the e-ASA. April, 2023.
  7. Terrone, “The Paradox of Taste to the Experimental Test” at the ASA. November, 2022.
  8. Kiianlinna, “Aesthetic Gadgets and Predictive Minds: Universalism in Evolutionary Aesthetics Today” at the e-ASA. April, 2022.
  9. Cutmore, “Mere memes and likes” at the e-ASA. April, 2019.
  10. Ravasio, “Tactile values in video games” at the e-ASA. April, 2018.
  11. Guter, “Beyond the museum conception of computer art” at the e-ASA. April, 2017.
  12. Strohminger, “Personal identity and attribution: A battle to the death” at the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association. January, 2016.
  13. de Brigard, “Vivacity and the distinction between memory and imagination” at the American Association of Mexican Philosophers. Columbia University. April, 2015.
  14. Kostko, & J. Bickle, “Causal explanation in social neuroscience: Two analyses” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. April, 2015.