This is a talk on my forthcoming book The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts (OUP) at SUNY Buffalo as part of their PPE speakers series.
This talk is on my research with Jordan Wylie and Ana Gantman looking at the relationship between aesthetic and moral excellence at the Most Good Conference in NYC.
This talk is on my research on the motivational force of philosophical arguments at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference in 2021.
Selected Talks
“Morality, Aesthetics, and the Diversity of Virtue,” The Most Good You Can Do: How The Science of Logic, Love, and Morality are Changing Ideas About The Ethics of Altruism, Conference at the Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn, NY, October 2024
“Fruitfulness for Normative Concepts,” PhD Summer School in Ethics and Political Philosophy, Ilia State University and Université Catholique de Louvain, September 2024
“Aesthetic Excellence, Moral Excellence” (with Ana Gantman and Jordan Wylie), Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 2024
“The Role of Empirical Research in Philosophical Work on Discrimination,” Aarhus University, June 2024
“Fruitfulness for Normative Concepts,” University at Buffalo, March 2024
“What Makes Feasibility Judgments Distinctive, and What to Do About It” (with Nicholas Southwood), Poster Presentation, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 2022
“Philosophical Arguments Can Motivate Charitable Giving,” Symposium: Nudging Donations: New Insights into Maximizing Charitable Giving, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February 2021
“Conceptual Engineering as Concept Preservation,” Colloquium Presentation, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, January 2021
“Experimental Philosophy and the Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts,” University of Zurich, November 2019
“Feasibility and the Problem of Normative Encroachment” (with Nicholas Southwood), X-Phi and Normativity Workshop, Australian National University, July 2019
“Competing Admissions,” Workshop on Asylum and Feasibility, University of Amsterdam, September 2018
“Feasibility and the Problem of Normative Encroachment” (with Nicholas Southwood), Utrecht University, September 2018
“Domestic Justice and Refugee Prioritization,” Refugees and Minority Rights Conference, University of Tromsø, June 2018
“Open Borders and Feasibility,” Feasibility and Immigration Workshop, Australian National University, April 2018
Comments on Katja Vogt’s “A Genuinely Aristotelian Guise of the Good,” Third Speculative Ethics Forum, St. John’s University, November 2017
“The Varieties of Impartiality” (with Justin Bruner), Second Annual Australasian Experimental Philosophy Workshop, Waikato University, July 2017
“Experimental Philosophy and the Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts,” Fifth Australasian Workshop in Moral Philosophy, Kioloa Coastal Campus, Australian National University, January 2017
“Experimental Philosophy and the Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts,” Keynote talk at First Annual Australasian Experimental Philosophy Workshop, Victoria University of Wellington, September 2016
“Philosophical Arguments and Moral Motivation,” Symposium on Experimental Philosophy, Thirty-First International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan, July 2016
“Moral Judgment and the Duties of Innocent Beneficiaries” (with Christian Barry), Responding to Global Poverty, Conference in Honor of Gerhard Øverland, University of Oslo, May 2015
“Immigration Policy and External Relationships,” Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory, Australian National University, June 2014
“Against Closed Borders, From the Perspective of Domestic Justice,” Conference on Global Justice and the Global South, University of Delhi, April 2014
“Testing the Motivational Force and Perceived Plausibility of Positive and Negative Duty Arguments Regarding Global Poverty” (with Carissa Véliz), Metro Experimental Research Group, CUNY Graduate Center, March 2014
“Doing, Allowing, and Enabling Harm: An Empirical Investigation” (with Christian Barry and Gerhard Øverland), Workshop on Enabling Harm, University of Oslo, June 2012
“Analysis and Doubt in Descartes’ Meditations,” Fifth Biennial Margaret Dauler Wilson Philosophy Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, June 2010
“The Influence of Knowledge of Upbringing on Moral Responsibility Judgments,” Experimental Philosophy and Experimental Economics Conference, Kyoto Sangyo University, March 2010