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​Recent & upcoming talks, etc.​
  • June 13, 2024. "The Structure of Wonder," Workshop on Epistemic Emotions, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp.
  • Nov. 16, 2023. “Visual Curiosity.” Part of a panel on “Curiosity” with Carolyn Korsmeyer and Bence Nanay at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics.
  • Feb. 25, 2023. 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.
Updated Aug 5, 2019