News:

• Now available, a new essay, "Magic: Art of the Impossible," intended for the 4th edition of Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, edited by Goldblatt and Partridge. This essay is especially intended for undergraduate audiences. See here.
• My prize-winning essay, "The Experience of Magic," is now available online in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. See here.
• The newest newsletter from the American Society for Aesthetics features a short essay (by me) on "Arts of the Impossible." My focus is on magic, but I also discuss drawings of impossible figures and the relationship between magic and humor (using Charles Addams' wonderful and famous cartoon, "The Skier"). Here's a link to the newsletter.
• I have been awarded a 2016 Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for my project, "The Art of the Impossible." As part of the project, I'll develop a new website dedicated to arts of impossibility (with a focus on magic). It will launch in September!
• The podcast for my talk at the London Aesthetics Forum is now available via iTunes. The slideshow—so that you can follow along at home (and watch the video clips)—is HERE.
• I have been awarded the 2015 John Fisher Memorial Prize in Aesthetics by The American Society for Aesthetics for my paper, "The Experience of Magic." The paper will be published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and I will read it at the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics in Savannah, Georgia.

Recent and Upcoming Talks:

• October 6, 2016. "Magic: Enjoying the Impossible." Experience UWF Downtown Lecture Series, University of West Florida.
• September 15, 2016. "Magic: Enjoying the Impossible." Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Marist College.
• June 30/July 1, 2016. "Sonic Images." Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp.
• April 15–17, 2016. "Sonic Images." Eastern Division meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics in Philadelphia, PA.
• April 7, 2016. "The Art of the Impossible: The Experience of Theatrical Magic." Department of Philosophy, Bloomsburg University.
• March 11, 2016. "The Art of the Impossible: The Experience of Theatrical Magic." Department of Philosophy, Oberlin College.

• January 14, 2016. "The Art of the Impossible: The Aesthetics of Theatrical Magic." Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds.
• January 13, 2016. "The Art of the Impossible: The Aesthetics of Theatrical Magic." The London Aesthetics Forum, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
• January 12, 2016. "Seeing and Noticing." New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project, Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge University.
• November 13, 2015. "The Experience of Magic." Annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics in Savannah, Georgia.
• September 19, 2015. "The Experience of Magic." Annual meeting of the British Society of Aesthetics at Homerton College, Cambridge University.
• June 24–26, 2015. "Epistemic Resilience: The Value of Understanding and Its Role in Science Communication." Midpoint conference for The Varieties of Understanding Project at Fordham University.
• June 4–6, 2015. "Cognitive Conflict in the Experience of Magic." Annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology at Duke University.

• March 28, 2015. "The Production of Public Understanding of Science" (with Matthew Slater). Annual meeting of the consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering at Michigan State University.

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