Talks

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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.