Hampstead Heath and children
Autumn 2013
Saturday 7 September
A discussion of sporting skills with John Sutton and others
Words and Wickets Cricket literary festival, Wormsley, Buckinghamshire
Thursday 19 September
Teleosemantics without Tears
Conference on Minds without Magic: The Natural Basis of Intentionality Bielefeld, Germany
Friday 27 September
MM McCabe and I will be hosting a workshop on “Medical Knowledge, Medical Duties"
Centre for Humanities and Health, King’s College London
Friday 3 October
The Nature of Philosophy
King’s College London Philosophy Society
Monday 7 October
Sensory Experience and Representational Properties
Aristotelian Society
Friday 18 October
Epistemic Practice and Normativity
Jowett Society, Oxford
Monday 11 November
Mind and Brain
Isiah Berlin Society, St Pauls Boy’s School
Saturday 23 November
Epistemic Practice and Normativity
Epistemic and Practical Rationality conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Monday 2 December
Epistemic Practice and Normativity
University of Helsinki
2014
Tuesday 28 January
Consciousness and the Brain
Erasmus Prize Ceremony, Charterhouse School
Friday 7 February
A Priori Intuitions: Analytic or Synthetic?
Jean Nicod Institute, Paris
Thursday 27 February
Mind and Brain
James Allen Girls' School Sixth Form Conference
Monday 3 March
What is the Philosophy of Physics?
Maxwell Society, King's College London
Thursday 6 March
Indexicality in Mind and Action
Conference in honour of François Recanati, Paris-Sorbonne
Thursday 27 to Saturday 29 March
Consciousness and Representation
Symposium on Consciousness, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Friday 11 to Sunday 13 April
Natural and Phenomenal Intentionality
Phenomenology and Naturalism Conference, University of Johannesburg
Sunday 27 to Wednesday 30 April
The Nature of Conscious Sensory Properties
Conference on Conscious Thought and Thought about Consciousness, University of Mississsippi
Monday 19 May to Tuesday 20 May
Addiction and Action Control (with Patrick Butlin)
King's/UNC Workshop on Desire, King's College London
Friday 23 May
Philosophical Views about the Nature of Conscious Sensory Experience
Meanings of Mind Conference, Human Mind Project, Institute of Philosophy, London
Wednesday 11 June
Phenomenal Sorites Series and the Argument against Luminosity
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Monday 16 June
The Minimal Phenomenal Concept Strategy
Workshop on Phenomenal Concepts, Jean Nicod Institute, Paris
Thursday 19 June
The Perspective of a Football Supporter
Conference on Aesthetics of Football, University of Kent
Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July
The Nature of Sensory Experience
Philosophy of Mind Conference, Assos, Turkey
Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 September
Symposium on Control, Skill and Automaticity
European Society for Psychology and Philosophy, Noto, Sicily
Tuesday 21 October
Symposium on Death:Philosophical Perspectives
Arts and Humanities Research Institute, King's College London
Wednesday 22 October
Causation as a Thermodynamic Phenomenon
Cambridge Philosophy of Science Seminar
Monday 3 November
Causation as a Thermodynamic Phenomenon
Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv
Tuesday 4 November
Mind and Body
Al Bashaeir School for Science, Sakhnin
Tuesday 4 November
Sport, Philosophy and Politics
Yaffa Bookstore and Coffee Shop, Yaffa
Wednesday 5 November
Sensory Experience and Cognitive Representation
Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
Tuesday 25 November
Mind and Body
City of London School
Thursday 4 December
TBA
Workshop on Perceptual and Nonperceptual Phenomenology, University of Antwerp
Saturday 7 September
A discussion of sporting skills with John Sutton and others
Words and Wickets Cricket literary festival, Wormsley, Buckinghamshire
Thursday 19 September
Teleosemantics without Tears
Conference on Minds without Magic: The Natural Basis of Intentionality Bielefeld, Germany
Friday 27 September
MM McCabe and I will be hosting a workshop on “Medical Knowledge, Medical Duties"
Centre for Humanities and Health, King’s College London
Friday 3 October
The Nature of Philosophy
King’s College London Philosophy Society
Monday 7 October
Sensory Experience and Representational Properties
Aristotelian Society
Friday 18 October
Epistemic Practice and Normativity
Jowett Society, Oxford
Monday 11 November
Mind and Brain
Isiah Berlin Society, St Pauls Boy’s School
Saturday 23 November
Epistemic Practice and Normativity
Epistemic and Practical Rationality conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Monday 2 December
Epistemic Practice and Normativity
University of Helsinki
2014
Tuesday 28 January
Consciousness and the Brain
Erasmus Prize Ceremony, Charterhouse School
Friday 7 February
A Priori Intuitions: Analytic or Synthetic?
Jean Nicod Institute, Paris
Thursday 27 February
Mind and Brain
James Allen Girls' School Sixth Form Conference
Monday 3 March
What is the Philosophy of Physics?
Maxwell Society, King's College London
Thursday 6 March
Indexicality in Mind and Action
Conference in honour of François Recanati, Paris-Sorbonne
Thursday 27 to Saturday 29 March
Consciousness and Representation
Symposium on Consciousness, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Friday 11 to Sunday 13 April
Natural and Phenomenal Intentionality
Phenomenology and Naturalism Conference, University of Johannesburg
Sunday 27 to Wednesday 30 April
The Nature of Conscious Sensory Properties
Conference on Conscious Thought and Thought about Consciousness, University of Mississsippi
Monday 19 May to Tuesday 20 May
Addiction and Action Control (with Patrick Butlin)
King's/UNC Workshop on Desire, King's College London
Friday 23 May
Philosophical Views about the Nature of Conscious Sensory Experience
Meanings of Mind Conference, Human Mind Project, Institute of Philosophy, London
Wednesday 11 June
Phenomenal Sorites Series and the Argument against Luminosity
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Monday 16 June
The Minimal Phenomenal Concept Strategy
Workshop on Phenomenal Concepts, Jean Nicod Institute, Paris
Thursday 19 June
The Perspective of a Football Supporter
Conference on Aesthetics of Football, University of Kent
Monday 30 June to Thursday 3 July
The Nature of Sensory Experience
Philosophy of Mind Conference, Assos, Turkey
Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 September
Symposium on Control, Skill and Automaticity
European Society for Psychology and Philosophy, Noto, Sicily
Tuesday 21 October
Symposium on Death:Philosophical Perspectives
Arts and Humanities Research Institute, King's College London
Wednesday 22 October
Causation as a Thermodynamic Phenomenon
Cambridge Philosophy of Science Seminar
Monday 3 November
Causation as a Thermodynamic Phenomenon
Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv
Tuesday 4 November
Mind and Body
Al Bashaeir School for Science, Sakhnin
Tuesday 4 November
Sport, Philosophy and Politics
Yaffa Bookstore and Coffee Shop, Yaffa
Wednesday 5 November
Sensory Experience and Cognitive Representation
Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
Tuesday 25 November
Mind and Body
City of London School
Thursday 4 December
TBA
Workshop on Perceptual and Nonperceptual Phenomenology, University of Antwerp
Antwerp Dec 2014 photo Angelica Kaufman
Monday 8 December
Emergent Causation and the Philosophy of Mind
Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham, Emergence Lecture Series
Monday 15 to Thursday 18 December
Causation as a Thermodynamic Phenomenon
Durham Emergence Project, Workshop on the Completeness of Physics
2015
Friday 9 January
The Evolution of Team Reasoning
Perspectives on Human Cooperation, University College London
Monday 9 February
Against Representationalism
New York Consciousness Discussion Group
Monday 2 March
Physicalism without Causal Closure
New York Philosophy of Science Group
Wednesday 25 March
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
CUNY Colloquium
Friday 27 March
Sports and Games
Workshop on Games and Play, University of Toronto
Friday 29 May
Symposium, The Reality of Feeling
How The Light Gets In Festival, Hay-on-Wye
Tuesday 2 June
Against Representationalism
Seminar on Powers, Causation and Persons, Oxford
Tuesday 9-Saturday 13 June
Physicalism without Causal Closure
Towards a Science of Consciousness, Helsinki
Wednesday 2-Saturday 5 September
More than a Game
International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Cardiff
Tuesday 15-Thursday 17 September
Private and Public Concepts
Workshop on Mental Files, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Friday 25-Saturday 26 September
Mind/Brain/Responsibility Roundtable
Galena, Illinois
Thursday 1 October
Placebo-Controlled Surgical Trials, Comments on David Beard
Philosophy and Medicine Colloquium, King's College London
Friday 16 October
Against Representationalism
Sheffield University Departmental Colloquium
Saturday November 7
Gender Gap Panel Discussion
OUP Philosophy Festival, Oxford
Saturday November 21
Aiming for Equality
George Ross Memorial Lecture, Conway Hall, London
Emergent Causation and the Philosophy of Mind
Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham, Emergence Lecture Series
Monday 15 to Thursday 18 December
Causation as a Thermodynamic Phenomenon
Durham Emergence Project, Workshop on the Completeness of Physics
2015
Friday 9 January
The Evolution of Team Reasoning
Perspectives on Human Cooperation, University College London
Monday 9 February
Against Representationalism
New York Consciousness Discussion Group
Monday 2 March
Physicalism without Causal Closure
New York Philosophy of Science Group
Wednesday 25 March
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
CUNY Colloquium
Friday 27 March
Sports and Games
Workshop on Games and Play, University of Toronto
Friday 29 May
Symposium, The Reality of Feeling
How The Light Gets In Festival, Hay-on-Wye
Tuesday 2 June
Against Representationalism
Seminar on Powers, Causation and Persons, Oxford
Tuesday 9-Saturday 13 June
Physicalism without Causal Closure
Towards a Science of Consciousness, Helsinki
Wednesday 2-Saturday 5 September
More than a Game
International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Cardiff
Tuesday 15-Thursday 17 September
Private and Public Concepts
Workshop on Mental Files, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Friday 25-Saturday 26 September
Mind/Brain/Responsibility Roundtable
Galena, Illinois
Thursday 1 October
Placebo-Controlled Surgical Trials, Comments on David Beard
Philosophy and Medicine Colloquium, King's College London
Friday 16 October
Against Representationalism
Sheffield University Departmental Colloquium
Saturday November 7
Gender Gap Panel Discussion
OUP Philosophy Festival, Oxford
Saturday November 21
Aiming for Equality
George Ross Memorial Lecture, Conway Hall, London
With Tom Nagel and Ned Block at NY Consciousness Group Feb 2015
2016
Friday 8-Saturday 9 January
The Plausibility of Representationalism
Mind and Metaphysics Conference for Howard Robinson, CEU Budapest
Thursday 4-Friday 5 February
Does Functional Falsity Refute Teleosemantics?
Workshop on False But Useful Beliefs, London
Friday 26 February
The Mind-Body Problem
Haberdashers' Aske's Girls and Boys Schools, London
Friday 18 March
The Virtues of Structuralism
50 Years of Worrall, London School of Economics
Friday 3 June
Corruption and Sport
University of Birmingham
Friday 17-Saturday June 18
Grounds and Gaps
Grounding and Consciousness
University of Birmingham
Wednesday June 22
Perceptual Representationalism
La Sapienza, Rome
Thursday June 30-Friday July 1
Kinds of Kinds, Kinds of Sciences
Conference on Natural and Artificial Kinds, Genoa
Wednesday 14-Friday 16 September
Causation, Intervention and Thermodynamics
British Postgraduate Philosophy Association, Reading
Wednesday 21-Thursday 22 September
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
Conference on Thought and Perception, Braga, Portugal
Tuesday 4-Thursday 6 October
The Limits of Conditioning
Conference on Rational Animals, Bochum, Germany
Tuesday 11 October
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
Cambridge Moral Sciences Club
Friday 14 October
Panel on Games and Play, with Sarah Fine, David Owens and John Tasioulas
6.30pm King's College London
Thursday 20 October
Sensory Experience
National Association of Postgaduate Philosophy Programs, Aracaju, Brazil
Monday 24-Wednesday 26 October
The Limits of Conditioning, and
Perceptual Representation
Workshop on Naturalism, Pelotas, Brazil
Friday 28 October
Fast Skills and Conscious Control
UNISINOS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Tuesday 8 November
Rich Perceptual Content
New Directions in the Study of the Mind, Cambridge
Wednesday 16 November
Perception and Representation
St Andrews Philosophy Club
Friday 25 November
A Priori Intuitions: Analytic or Synthetic
Zurich
Monday 28 November
What's the Use of Consciousness? Panel discussion at the Royal Institution, London, with Cecilia Heyes, Chris Frith and Nicholas Shea
Friday 2 December
TBA
Workshop on Phenomenality, Paris
Thursday 8-Saturday 10 December
TBA
Opening Conference for Einstein Center for Neuroscience, Berlin
2017
Wednesday 18 January
The Metaphysics of Perception
King's College London Philosophy Society
Tuesday 24 January
Team Reasoning
University College London Radical Anthropology Seminar
Friday 3 February
Perception and Representation
Florida State University, Tallahassee
Thursday April 13
Perception and Representation
PhilEAs Conference Cycle, Geneva
Thursday 11-Friday 12 May
The Intelligence of Basic Actions
Workshop on Executive and Automatic Action Control, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Friday 26 May
Final Panel
Workshop on Collaborative Embodied Skill, Senate House, London
Friday 2 June
Causes and Correlations
University of Lisbon
Wednesday 7 June
Thinking about Animal Consciousness
The Evolution of Consciousness, London School of Economics
Thursday 15-Friday 16 June
Correlations and Causes
Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse
Thursday 21-Sunday 24 September
The Status of Epistemic Evaluations
Conference on Epistemic Rationality, Barcelona
Monday 25-Wednesday 27 September
Ontological Naturalism and Physical Science
Symposium on Naturalism, DGPhil, Berlin
Friday 20-Saturday 21 October
70th Birthday Conference
King's College London
Friday 27-Saturday 28 October
Causes, Correlations, Actions
Conference on Where is Causation?, Umea, Sweden
Thursday 7-Friday 8 December
Kinds and Essences
Scots Philosophical Association, Edinburgh
Thursday 14-Friday 15 December
Mental Representation
Symposium: Thinking about Thinking, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
2018
Monday 30 January
Mind and Brain
North London Collegiate School Philosophy Conference
Wednesday 7 February
Kinds and Essences: Taming Metaphysical Modality
Jerold Katz Lecture, CUNY
Tuesday 27 February
Consciousness and the Brain
University of Lincoln
Monday 5 March
Understanding Causal Networks
Probability Seminar, Rutgers
Wednesday 6 June
Team Reasoning
Blackwell's Bookshop, Oxford
Thursday 14 June
Team Reasoning
University of Aberdeen Philosophy Public Lecture, Belmont Filmhouse (with screening of The Magnificent Seven)
Thursday 6-Saturday 8 September
Teleosemantic Explanation
Conference on Teleosemantics, Bielefeld, Germany
Monday 10-Wednesday 12 September
Stop Making Senses
Dubrovnik, Logic and Language Conference
Thursday 27 September
The Structure of Substances
CEU, Budapest
Thursday 29 November-Saturday 1 December
Kinds and Essences
Greek Congress in Philosophy of Science, Athens
2019
Tues 8 Jan
Comments on Hartry Field's Romanell Lecture
American Philosophical Association Meeting Eastern Division, New York
Mon 18 Feb
Doping in Sport
Forum for Philosophy, London School of Economics
Thur 28-Fri 29 Mar
Causation and the Direction of Time
CUNY/Milan Conference on Tense, Milan
Mon 1 Apr
Consciousness and Panpsychism
Oxford Literary Festival
Mon 22 Apr
The Metaphysics of Causation
Bordeaux Seminar on Epistemic Norms in Theories of Explanation
Thur 25 Apr
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
London Mind Group
Mon-Wed 8-10 Jul
Two Kinds of Colour Perception
Structuralism in Consciousness Studies Workshop, Humboldt University Berlin
Thur 19 Sep
Statistics and Causation
Philosophy of Science Today, London School of Economics
Fri-Sat 25-26 Oct
Self-Knowledge of Sensory States
Exploring the Mind's Eye, Bilkent University, Ankara
Thur 14 Nov
Swampman, Teleosemantics and Natural Kinds
Department of Philosophy, Edinburgh
Thur 5 Dec
Causation in Statistics and Metaphysics
West Midlands Royal Statistical Society, Warwick
2020
Tues 21 Jan
The Seductions of Interventionism
FraMEPhys Group, University of Birmingham
Mon 17 Feb
The Rules of the Game
Albright College, Philadelphia
Tues 25 Feb
Symposium on The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Forum for Philosophy, London School of Economics
Tues 3 Mar
The Nature of Representation
NY-NJ Philosophy of Science Colloquium
Tues 10 Mar
Kinds and Essences
Mind and Language Seminar, New York University
Mon 16 Mar CORONA-CANCELLED
The Statistical Nature of Causation
Logic and Metaphysics Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center
Mon 23 Mar
Metaphilosophy
Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich
Tues 31 Mar CORONA-POSTPONED
Symposium on Mathematics and Morality by Justin Clarke-Doane
Heyman Center, Columbia University
Wed 8 April CORONA-CANCELLED
TBA
Workshop on Adverbialism, Birkbeck College London
Thurs 9 April
The Fetishization of RCTs
RIOTs Club, King's College London
Tues 21 April CORONA-POSTPONED
In the Zone
Department of Philosophy, Providence College RI
Tues 28 Apr CORONA-POSTPONED
Choking and the Yips
Department of Philosophy, Iona College NY
Mon-Wed 4-6 May CORONA-CANCELLED
The Statistical Nature of Causation
Causation in Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sat-Sun 6-7 Jun CORONA-POSTPONED
TBA
Sensory Experience, Tiayuan, China
Wed 23 Jul
Why Sensory Experience Cannot be Essentially Representational
Uriah Kreigel's online "Summer of Consciousness"
Tues-Thur 27-27 Aug CORONA-POSTPONED
TBA
Latin-American Association for Analytic Philosophy, Santiago, Chile
Fri 25 Sep
Why Sensory Experience Cannot be Essentially Representational
Department of Philosophy, University of Lisbon
Mon 19 Oct
The Power of Team Reasoning
RIP Lectures on Collective Action, Anglia Ruskin University
Mon 26 Oct
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
Richard Brown's website Consciousness Live!
Thur 12 Nov
Swampman, Semantics and Kind Essences
3rd International Conference on Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Federal University of Rio de Janiero
Fri 20 Nov CORONA-POSTPONED
TBA
Nuit de la Philosophie, Paris
Fri 11 Dec CORONA-POSTPONED
Why Sports (but not Games) Matter
L'esprit du Jeu, University of Aix, Marseille
Mon 14 Dec
Symposium on Mathematics and Morality by Justin Clarke-Doane
Heyman Center, Columbia University
2021
Thur 11 Mar
Why Sensory Consciousness Cannot be Essentially Representational
University of Pavia, 1500-1700 CET Online
Fri 18 Mar
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience--my new book
The Dissenter, 1400-1500 GMT
Fri 16 Apr
Why Sports (but not Games) Matter--CORONA POSTPONED
L'esprit du Jeu, University of Aix, Marseille
Thur 22 Apr
Perceptual Science and the Philosophy of Perception
Radboud University, Nijmegen, 1500-1700 CET online
Mon 26 AprWhy Sensory Consciousness Cannot be Essentially Representational
Oxford Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar Series
Fri 11 Jun
Kinds, Objects and Essences
LanCog Group, University of Lisbon
Thur 29 Jul
Protected Characteristics and AI Prediction
Summer Series on Stereotyping and Medical AI, Sowerby Philosophy and Medicine Programme, King's College London
Fri Aug 13
Symposium on The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
2nd Mind Brazil Brainstorms (with Kati Farkas, Michelle Montague, Francisco Pereira and Sergio de Souza Filho)
Tues Sep 14
The Ambiguity of Equipoise
Philosophy and Medicine Workshop, King's College London
Fri Sep 17
Physicalism (recorded talk)
Une nuit de la Philosophie à l'UNESCO, Paris
Tues Sep 21
The Causal Argument Against Representationalism
Language and Mind Group, St Andrew's
Fri Sep 24
Why Sports (but not Games) Matter
L'esprit du Jeu, University of Aix, Marseille
Mon-Tue Sep 27-28
A Philosopher's Reactions to GPT-3
Philosophy and Theory of AI, Gothenburg, Sweden
Fri Nov 19
TBA
Congress on Mind and Philosophy, National University of Costa Rica
Tues Nov 23
Knowledge and the Failings of Folk Epistemology
Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge
2022
Thur-Fri 13-14 Jan--CORONA POSTPONED (until May-June)
Workshop on The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
University of Bochum
Tues 22 Feb
Philosophical Naturalism
Mind and Language Seminar, New York University
Tues 1 Mar
Mind Chat podcast with Keith Frankish and Philip Goff
Wed 2 Mar
Knowledge Norms are Bad for You
CUNY Graduate Center
Mon 7 Mar
The Statistical Nature of Causation
Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center
Tues 8 Mar
Quine and Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism
Naturalism and its Challenges online conference, Tehran
Wed 9 Mar
The Causal Structure of Reality
Metropolitan Area Philosophy of Science (MAPS), New York
Thurs 10 Mar
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
MIT Graduate Seminar on Perception
Thur 31 Mar
Science, Religion and the Limits of Reason
Oxford Literary Festival
Wed-Sat 13-16 Apr
Author Meets Critics: The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience, with Katalin Balog, Farid Masrour, and Michael Tye
APA Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver
Thur-Fri 28-29 Apr
Universals, Representation and Perception
Workshop on Naturalism, Luxembourg
Tues-Wed 28-29 Jun
Why are Causes the Right Way to Produce Effects?
Physics, Time and Agency Conference, Trinity College Dublin
Wed-Fri 6-8 Jul
Causal Inference and Structural Equations
Symposium on Causal Inference, British Society for Philosophy of Science conference, Exeter
Wed-Fri27-29 Jul
What Causal Inference Tells Us About Causation
Emergence and Reduction in Science and Metaphysics, University of Lisbon
Tue-Thur 23-25 Aug
Knowledge Norms are Bad for Us
Latin-American Association for Analytic Philosophy, Santiago, Chile
Thur-Fri 1-2 Sep
Problems for Representationalism
Workshop on The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience, Bochum
Mon 12 Sep
The Temptations of Representationalism
National Taiwan University (online)
Thur-Fri 29-30 Sep
Reduce or Eliminate? The Varieties of Consciousness Worth Wanting
Workshop on Illusionism, Bochum
Tues-Mon 18-24 Oct
How the MWI Matters: Relief, Regret and Distributive Justice
MWI Workshop, Tel Aviv
Thurs 10 Nov
What is Representation?
LSE Philosophy Society
Friday 18 Nov
The Problem of Perception
Sutton School
Tues 7 Dec
The Nature of Essential Properties
Naming and Necessity at 50 seminar series, CUNY Graduate Center
Fri 9 Dec
Mental Representation
Max Planck Cognition Academy, Berlin
