Upcoming Talks:
Pacific APA, San Fransisco.
NYC Aesthetics Lunch Workshop, CUNY.
Visiting Speaker Series, Cardiff University.
Past Talks:
Invited:
2025. 'How Pessimistic Should we be about Human-AI Relationships. Human-AI Workshop. Interdisciplinary Ethics Applied Centre, Leeds.
2024. 'Epistemic Permissivism and Norms of Convergence'. Umeå Winter Workshop in Philosophy: Aesthetic Langauge. Umeå.
2024. 'Epistemic Permissivism in Aesthetic Discourse'. Epistemic and Aesthetic Normativity. Collège de France, Paris.
2024. 'The Role of Affect in Aesthetic Belief Formation'. Emotions Conference, the Université Paris 1 and the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris.
2024. 'Trust, Testimony and Aesthetic Beliefs', Nordic Network in Epistemology Workshop, INN University, Lillehammer.
2024. 'The Role of Affect in Aesthetic Belief Formation'. Quodlibeta. University of Geneva.
2024. 'Aesthetic Skepticism and Epistemic Permissivism', Higher Seminar in Aesthetics, Uppsala.
2023. ‘The Nature of Evidence-Resistant Trust’, Trusting State, Trusting Science, University of Geneva.
2023. ‘Trust and Aesthetic Authenticity’, Thumos Seminar Series, University of Geneva.
2023. ‘The Value of Trust in Aesthetic Testimony’, Knowledge, Perception and the Prospects of Criticism’: International Symposium, Uppsala.
2023. ‘Aesthetic Realism and Darwin’s Dilemma’. Higher Seminar in Aesthetics, Uppsala.
2022. ‘Love and the Aesthetic Ideal’. Expanded Aesthetics Workshop. University of Athens, Georgia.
2022. ‘Trust in Aesthetic Experts’. Social Epistemology and Aesthetics. Scottish Aesthetics Forum, St. Andrews University.
2022. ‘How to Rescue the Affective-Attitude Theory of Trust’. Stockholm-Uppsala Joint-seminar in Theoretical Philosophy.
2022. ‘The real problem of Aesthetic Testimony’. Aesthetic Testimony. University of Konstanz.
2021. ‘Love and Art.’ Higher Seminar in Aesthetics, Uppsala University.
2020. ‘The Problematic Nature of Trust’, Thumos Seminar, University of Geneva.
2019. ‘Trust, Testimony and Reasons’, Epistemic Duties Workshop, Fredericton, N.B, Canada. (Co-authored with Andrew Reisner.)
2019. ‘The Puzzles of Trust’, Higher Seminar in Aesthetics, Uppsala University.
2017. ‘Questions of Artistic Value’, Presentation at Cambridge and Uppsala Workshop, SCAS.
2016. ‘Improvisation in Literature’. Panel session, Philosophy of Improvisation Workshop. Durham University.
Peer-reviewed:
2024. American Society of Aesthetics 82nd Annual Meeting, Chicago.
2024. 'Emotions towards AI and the Echoes of a Paradox '. Mancept: The Future of Relationships, University of Manchester.
2024. 'The Darwinian Dilemma and the Collapse of Robust Aesthetic Realism', 10th Dubrovnik Conference on the Philosophy of Art.
2020. ‘Isolationism, Sheepism and Trust’, American Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Washington (Virtual).
2020. ‘What’s So Special About Social Media?, Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity, Tilberg, Netherlands (Virtual).
2018. ‘Trust in Aesthetic Testimony’, American Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.
2018. ‘On the Role of Trust in Aesthetic Testimony’, European Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Maribor, Slovenia.
2017. ‘Reconsidering Artistic Value.’ Understanding Values VI Conference, University of Sheffield, UK.
2017. ‘Reconsidering Artistic Value.’ Filosofidagarna, Uppsala University.
2017. ‘Reconsidering Artistic Value.’ Aesthetics and Cognitive Value Conference. University of Tampere, Finland.
2016. ‘Auditory Sensory Imagining within Literature and Aesthetic Appreciation’. Philosophy, Imagination and the Arts. Nordic Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden.
2015. ‘What explains Architecture’s High Art Status? Interact! British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference, University of Kent, UK.
Comments/Responses:
2022. Respondent to Errol Lord (Pennsylvania) ‘Generic Aesthetic Inference’, American Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Portland, US.
2021. Respondent to Madeleine Ransom (British Colombia) and David Freidell (Union College) ‘Against treating people like sunsets’, American Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Montreal.
2021. Respondent to Hale Doguoglu (Western) and Carolyn McLeod (Western) on ‘A Feminist Critique of the Commitment Account of Distrust’, Trust in the Public Sphere. Workshop organised by Dimitrios Panagos (Newfoundland and Labrador) and Kerstin Reibold (Potsdam)
2019. Respondent to Jessica Isserow (Leeds) on ‘Subjunctive Hypocrisy’. AHRC workshop on Higher Order Evidence in Epistemology, Ethics, and Aesthetics IV, organized by Daniel Whiting, Southampton.
2018. Respondent To John Gibson (Louisville) ‘On The Role of Metaphor in Aesthetic Discourse’, organised by Elisabeth Schellekens, Uppsala.