Upcoming Talks:
CNY Moral Psychology Workshop
Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, November 14
and at the 2025 meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society
Savannah, GA, November 21-22
Also Upcoming:
Is Berkeley's God a Deceiver?
Comparing the views of historical philosophers René Descartes and George Berkeley on issues in epistemology and metaphysics ​
To be presented at the meeting of
The International Berkeley Society
Eastern APA Conference, January 2026
Baltimore, MD
PREVIOUS TALKS & COMMENTS
COMMENTS ON "A PRAGMATIC SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY" BY MICHAEL HANNON
"EVOLUTIONARY DEBUNKING ARGUMENTS AND THE MODAL SAFETY OF OUR MORAL BELIEFS"
Symposium, Eastern APA Conference
New York, NY, January 2024
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Symposium, Central APA Conference
Denver CO, February 2023
With comments by Sharon Berry and Dustin Locke
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"EPISTEMIC BLAME AND EPISTEMIC INSTRUMENTALISM"
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR)
Hosted by the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis,
and Saint Louis University
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May 2022
COMMENTS ON "A STANDING ASYMMETRY BETWEEN BLAME AND FORGIVENESS" BY KYLE FRITZ AND DANIEL MILLER
Pacific APA, Vancouver​
April 2022
The handout is available here.
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COMMENTS ON "AGAINST CAPACITY VIEWS OF ACTION AND CONTROL" BY MALTE HENDRICKX
Central APA, Chicago​
February 2022
The handout is available here.
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COMMENTS ON "NORMATIVE INFERENCE TICKETS" BY JENNIFER FOSTER AND JONATHAN ICHIKAWA
Eastern APA, Baltimore​
January 2022
The handout is available here.
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"EPISTEMIC BLAME AS A CHALLENGE FOR EPISTEMIC INSTRUMENTALISM"
NYU Philosophy Department "Lunch Talk"​
December 2021
COMMENTS ON OLOF LEFFLER'S "CONTINGENCY, SOCIALITY, AND MORAL PROGRESS"
Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (RoME)​
University of Colorado-Boulder (virtual)
August 2021
The handout is available here
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COMMENTS ON MILES TUCKER'S "A QUIET MORAL ONTOLOGY"
Eastern APA Conference (held virtually)
January 2021
The handout is available here
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PARTICIPANT IN "DEBATING EVOLUTION & ETHICS: DOES EVOLUTION UNDERMINE MIND-INDEPENDENT MORALITY?"
University of Delaware
with Russ Shafer-Landau
Newark, DE, March 2020
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COMMENTS ON LUKE KALLBERG'S "THIRD FACTOR DEFENSES OF MORAL KNOWLEDGE"
Central APA, Colloquium: Debunking in Epistemology
"COULD OUR EPISTEMIC REASONS BE COLLECTIVE PRACTICAL REASONS?
"COULD EPISTEMIC REASONS BE COLLECTIVE PRACTICAL REASONS?"
University of Southampton, U.K.
June 2019
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"WHAT DO LISA, HER COLLEGE'S CHESS CLUB, AND NATO HAVE IN COMMON? RETHINKING WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AN AGENT"
2019 Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2019
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"ALL DAY, EVERY DAY"
Le Moyne College
Syracuse, NY, May 2019
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COMMENTS ON ROBERT GRUBER'S "HARMLESS TORTURERS, ACCUMULATION CASES, AND A SOLUTION TO THE MISMATCH PROBLEM"
Eastern APA, Colloquium: Ethics of Collectives
New York, NY, January 2019
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"GROUP AGENCY MEETS META-ETHICS:
HOW TO CRAFT A MORE COMPELLING FORM OF NORMATIVE RELATIVISM"
13th Annual Madison Metaethics Workshop
University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2018
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For prior talks, see my CV
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