recent & upcoming talks, etc.

• 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," Second Annual 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.