
Recent & upcoming talks, etc.
- Feb. 25, 2022. Invited commentator in a symposium on Hannah Kim, "Propositional Imagination and the Permissive View of Fictional Truth," American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting.
- Jan. 5, 2022. Symposium on “The Event-Property View of Sounds,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting. Commentators: Megan Entwistle (Harvard) and Jacob Lettie (Johns Hopkins).
- Nov. 2021. “Visual Curiosity,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics. Part of a panel on “Curiosity” with Carolyn Korsmeyer and Bence Nanay. (Canceled)
- Aug. 29, 2021. "Magic and Curiosity," Bridging the Impossible: Magic and Well-Being Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London. (Online)
- July 10, 2021. “Moving Audiovisual Pictures," Sound Pictures Conference, King’s College, London: Sponsored by the British Society for Aesthetics. (Online)
- March 16, 2021. "Picture: The Impossible," Scottish Aesthetics Forum, University of Edinburgh, Scotland: “Picture: The Impossible.” (Online)
- November 14, 2020, "Sonic Pictures," American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Kivy Prize Session. (Online) (Talk handout)
- May 28, 2020, "Savouring Magic," Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent, UK. (Online.)
- July 16, 2019, "Impossibly Curious." 2nd Biannual Science of Magic Conference, Chicago, IL.
- April 1, 2019, "The Curious Pleasure of Magic and Science." Department of Philosophy, Furman University, Greenville, SC.
- January 16, 2019, "The Pleasures of Curiosity." Department of English and the Committee for Cultural Events, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.
- October 10–13, 2018, "Comic Impossibilities: Magic & Stand-Up," American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
- July 2–3, 2018, Aesthetics Reborn: an invitation-only workshop in aesthetics. Department of Philosophy, NYU (Florence, Italy).
- April 5, 2018, "Musical Picturing," American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Meeting, Asilomar, CA. (Handout)
- January 2018, "Bearable Noise," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Savannah, GA.
- September 1, 2017, "The Experience of Magic," 1st Biannual Science of Magic Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London.
- March 24, 2017, “Cognitive Conflict in the Experience of Magic," International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Vienna, Austria.
- 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.