Academic talks

• "Humean scientific realism," Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 23 March 2024.
• "On phenomenal contrast," University of Antwerp, 11 March 2024.
• "On locational sensory individuals and spacetime," University of Antwerp, 7 March 2024.
• "Multimodal binding as mereological co-constiuency," Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia, 26 July 2023.
• "Wine tasting, blind and otherwise: Blindness as a perceptual limitation," University of Toronto, 14 July 2023.
• "Multimodal binding as mereological co-constiuency," York University, 10 March 2023.
• "Multimodal binding as mereological co-constiuency," University of Antwerp, 12 May 2022.
• "Coherence and coherence establishment: Lessons from eliciture," Università di Torino, 10 May 2022.
• "Multimodal binding as mereological co-constiuency," University of Geneva, 4 May 2022.
• "Multimodal binding as mereological co-constiuency," Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 29 June 2021.
• "Coherence, communication, and conversational eliciture", Society for Philosophy and Psychology (keynote address), 11 July 2019.
• "Coherence and Conversation," Rutgers Semantics Workshop, 25 April 2019.
• "Comments on Morrison," Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 17 April 2019.
• "Lawson on the de se and the self," Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, 7 January 2019.
• "Many Molyneux Questions," Kyoto University, 13 December 2018.
• "Coherence and Conversation," Kyoto University, 12 December 2018.
• "Coherent integration in language understanding," UC San Diego-Kyoto Workshop on the Self, 19 October 2018.
• "Many Molyneux Questions," University of Cambridge, 10 October 2018.
• "Coherence and Conversation,” University College, London, 8 October 2018.
• "Schellenberg on Perceptual Capacities," Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 28 March 2018.
• "Schellenberg on Perceptual Capacities," Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 15 March 2018.
• "Coherence and Conversation," University of California, Davis, 23 February 2018.
• "Many Molyneux Questions," University of California, Santa Cruz, 12 October 2017.
• "Comments on Wilhelm's `Lawhood and Calculational Tracticability'," Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 13 April 2017.
• "Conversational Eliciture," University of Wisconsin, Madison, 31 March 2017.
• "On Convention and Coherence," Philosophy Desert Workshop, 25 March 2017.
• "Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too," UC Berkeley, 21 February 2017.
• "Wine Tasting, Blind and Otherwise: Blindness as a Perceptual Limitation," Brandon University, 16 January 2017.
• "Conversational Eliciture," University of Manitoba, 13 January 2017.
• "On the Presuppositional Behavior of Coherence-Driven Pragmatic Enrichments" (with Andrew Kehler), California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics 9, 21 October 2016.
• "On the Presuppositional Behavior of Coherence-Driven Pragmatic Enrichments," Boğaziçi University, 27 June 2016.
• "Perceptual Integration, Modularity, and Cognitive Penetration," Rutgers University, 20 May 2016.
• "On the Presuppositional Behavior of Coherence-Driven Pragmatic Enrichments" (with Andrew Kehler) Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26, 14 May 2016.
• "Chirimuuta's adverbialism," Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 1 April 2016.
• "Conversational Eliciture," Institut Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 25 March 2016.
• "Perceptual Integration, Modularity, and Cognitive Penetration," University of Antwerp, 17 March 2016.
• "Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too," North Carolina State University, Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative Conference on Perception, 25 September 2015.
• "Conversational Eliciture," Florida International University, 10 September 2015.
• "Suffering and Other States" (with Matthew Fulkerson) Affective Experience: Pain and Pleasure, 14 June 2015.
• "Conversational Eliciture," Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 4 June 2015.
• "Conversational Eliciture," University of California, Merced, Mind, Technology, and Society Seminar, 30 March 2015.
• "Perceptual Integration, Modularity, and Cognitive Penetration" (with Daniel Burnston), Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, 30 December 2014.
• "The Agony of Reason: The Unsteady Bond Between Suffering and Human Rationality," University of California, Santa Barbara, 7 November 2014.
• "Frame-Semantic Derivation of Failure-Free Extrasemantic Content" (with Andrew Kehler), Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language, 6 November 2014.
• "Sameness and Difference for Color Ontology," Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 19 June 2014.
• "Perceptual Variation and Color Relationalism," Fabricating Color, University of Chicago, 26 April 2014.
• "Failure-Free Extrasemantic Content," Workshop in Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Chicago, 25 April 2014.
• "The Agony of Reason: The Unsteady Bond Between Suffering and Human Rationality," (with Matthew Fulkerson), Suffering and Normativity Workshop, University of Glasgow, 18 January 2014.
• "Sensory Substitution and Perceptual Emergence," University of Southern California, 11 December 2013.
• "A Sensible Subjectivism about Flavor?," American Society of Aesthetics, 30 October 2013.
• "Sensory Substitution and Perceptual Emergence," SoCal Philosophy Conference, 19 October 2013.
• "Failure-Free Extrasemantic Content," Investigating Semantics: Empirical and Philosophical Approaches, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 10 October 2013.
• "Sensory Substitution and Perceptual Emergence," Columbia-Barnard Perception Workshop, 26 July 2013.
• "On Some Limitations of Sensory Substitution," Sensory Substitution and Augmentation Conference, The British Academy, 26 March 2013.
• "Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too," Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 25 March 2013.
• "Wine Tasting, Blind and Otherwise: Blindness as a Perceptual Limitation," Workshop on the Philosophy and Psychology of Food and Drink, University of Leeds, 23 March 2013.
• "Indexicality and the Puzzle of the Answering Machine," Arizona State University, 1 March 2013.
• "Indexicality and the Puzzle of the Answering Machine," University of Texas, Austin, 4 February 2013.
• "Building a Better System" (with Craig Callender), Law and Order Conference, UC San Diego, 2 February 2013.
• "On Some Limitations of Sensory Substitution," MIT Works in Progress Seminar, 10 December 2012.
• "Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too," University of Glasgow, 18 September 2012.
• "Indexicality and the Puzzle of the Answering Machine," Workshop on Billboards, Indexicals, Context, and Interpreters, Arche, St. Andrews, 16 September 2012.
• "Wine Tasting, Blind and Otherwise: Blindness as a Perceptual Limitation," Albritton Society, UCLA, 8 June 2012.
• "Wine Tasting, Blind and Otherwise: Blindness as a Perceptual Limitation," Philosophy Today, Mexico City, 2 June 2012.
• "Perception, Feature Perception, and Object Perception" (with Dan Burnston), Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 5 April 2012.
• "Ecumenicism, Comparability, and Color, Or: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too," 4th Annual Auburn Philosophy Conference: Color and Philosophy, Auburn University, 2 March 2012.
• "Wine Tasting, Blind and Otherwise: Blindness as a Perceptual Limitation," Grossmont College, 22 February 2012.
• "Semantic Content and Collection," Semantic Content Workshop, Barcelona, 6 November 2011.
• "Wine Tasting, Blind and Otherwise: Blindness as a Perceptual Limitation," Workshop on Wine Expertise, University of London in Paris, Paris, 13 October 2011.
• "Synesthetic Perception as Continuous With Ordinary Perception, or: We're All Synesthetes Now," Institut Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 11 October 2011.
• "Special Sciences Laws and Fundamental Laws: A Unified Approach," European Philosophy of Science Association, Athens, 7 October 2011.
• "Synesthetic Perception as Continuous With Ordinary Perception, or: We're All Synesthetes Now," More or Less: Varieties of Human Cortical Colour Vision, Vancouver, 6 August 2011.
• "Redder and Realer: Responses to Egan and Tye," Author Meets Critics session on The Red and The Real: An Essay on Color Ontology, Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 20 April 2011.
• "Knowledge of Color and Knowledge of Objects," Philosophy of Science, Dubrovnik, 15 April 2011.
• "Indexicality and the Puzzle of the Answering Machine," University of Leeds, 4 November 2010.
• "Special Sciences, Conspiracy and the Better Best System Account of Lawhood," University of Leeds, HPS, 3 November 2010.
• "Indexicality and the Puzzle of the Answering Machine," Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 28 October 2010.
• "Special Sciences, Conspiracy and the Better Best System Account of Lawhood," Governance of Nature Workshop, London School of Economics, 27 October 2010.
• "Computation and the Ambiguity of Perception," Popper Seminar, London School of Economics, 26 October 2010.
• "Contextualism and Color Predication," El color y el lenguaje del color, UNAM, Mexico City, 20 May 2010.
• "Contextualism and Color Predication," Epistemology and Philosophy of Psychology Workshop, UC Riverside, 29 April 2010.
• "Special Sciences, Conspiracy and the Better Best System Account of Lawhood" (with Craig Callender), University of California, San Diego, 9 April 2010.
• "Computation and the Ambiguity of Perception," Northwestern University, 15 January 2010.
• "Comments on Brogaard's `An Alternative to Color Relationalism'," Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, 29 December 2009.
• "Special Sciences, Conspiracy and the Better Best System Account of Lawhood" (with Craig Callender), Pitt-Paris II: Emergence and Reduction in the Sciences, 12 December 2009.
• "Computation and the Ambiguity of Perception," Washington University, St. Louis, 3 December 2009.
• "Computation and the Ambiguity of Perception," University of California, Irvine, 16 October 2009.
• "A Better Best System Account of Lawhood" (with Craig Callender), Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, April 2009.
• "Computation and the Ambiguity of Perception," Workshop on Cognitive and Developmental Factors in Perceptual Constancy, University of Pennyslvania, 20 February 2009.
• "Do Colors Look Relational?," Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network, 17 August 2008.
• "A Better Best System Account of Lawhood" (with Craig Callender), Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, 4 August 2008.
• "Do Colors Look Relational?," University of Kentucky, 7 March 2008.
• "A Better Best System Account of Lawhood," Kyoto University, 6 November 2007.
• "The Red and The Real, I-IV," University of Tokyo, 30 October 2007 - 2 November 2007.
• "It's Not Easy Being Green: Hardin and Color Relationalism," Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 15 June 2007.
• "Colors, Functions, Realizers, and Roles," Florida State University Conference on Color, 14 April 2007.
• "Wine, Categories, and Wine Categories," APA Mini-Conference on Philosophy and Wine, 4 April 2007.
• "Color and Perceptual Variation Revisited: Unknown Facts, Alien Modalities, and Perfect Psychosemantics," Third Biennial Margaret Dauler Wilson Conference, 23 June 2006.
• "Colors, Functions, Realizers, and Roles," University of California, San Diego, 26 May 2006.
• "Color Properties and Color Ascriptions: A Relationalist Manifesto," University of Texas, Austin, 9 September 2005.
• "Objects, Places, and Perception," University of Texas, Austin, 7 September 2005.
• "Averill's Colors: Objectivism, Relationalism, Projectivism," Texas Tech University, 8 April 2005.
• "Color Constancy as Counterfactual," UC Berkeley, 23 February 2005.
• "Color Constancy as Counterfactual," University of Toronto, 8 February 2005.
• "Color Constancy as Counterfactual," King's College London, 12 May 2004.
• "There is No Special Problem About Scientific Representation," London School of Economics, 11 May 2004.
• "Spatially Agnostic Informants and the Epistemic Status of Photography" (with Aaron Meskin), Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 26 March 2004.
• "Color Constancy as Counterfactual," Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, 30 December 2003.
• "Objects, Places, and Perception," Auburn University, 5 December 2003.
• "Error, Variation, and Color Vision," Workshop on Colour Ontology and Colour Science, University of British Columbia, 4 October 2003.
• "Objects, Places, and Perception," University of British Columbia, 2 October 2003.
• "Williamson on Knowledge and Psychological Explanation" (with P. D. Magnus), Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on Explanation and Causation, 2 May 2003.
• "Photographs Are Not Transparent" (with Aaron Meskin), Pacific Division, American Society for Aesthetics, 3 April 2003.
• "Color Constancy as Counterfactual," University of California, Santa Barbara, 6 December 2002.
• "Color Properties and Color Ascriptions: A Relationalist Manifesto," Southern California Philosophy Conference, 27 October 2001.
• "Color and Color Space: Structural and Metrical Properties of the Colors," Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 29 March 2001.
• "Color Properties and Color Experience: When and When Not To Be A Functionalist," University of British Columbia, 1 March 2001.
• "Color Properties and Color Experience: When and When Not To Be A Functionalist," Simon Fraser University, 27 October 2000.
• "Analyticity and Katz's New Intensionalism: or, If You Sever Sense from Reference, Analyticity is Cheap But Useless," Western Canadian Philosophical Association, 6 October 2000.
• "Color and Color Space: Structural and Metrical Properties of the Colors," Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 29 September 2000.
• "Inverted Spectra and Fred," Central Division, American Philosophical Association, 21 April 2000.
• "Color and Color Space: Structural and Metrical Properties of the Colors," CUNY Graduate Center Cognitive Science Symposium, 3 March 2000.
• "Color and Color Space: Structural and Metrical Properties of the Colors," Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, 18 November 1999.
• "Primary Qualities and The Structure of Color Space," Rutgers Undergraduate Cognitive Science Club, 5 October 1999.
• "Imagined Extrapolation of Uniform Motion is Not Continuous" (with Zenon Pylyshyn), Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (poster session), 13 May 1999.
• "Inverted Spectra and Fred," Northeast Cognitive Science Society, 1 May 1999.
• "Comments on Wright's `A Dilemma for Jackson's and Pargetter's Account of Color'," Rutgers University Graduate Philosophy Conference, 10 April 1999.
• "Being Red and Seeing Red: Color Properties and Color Perception," Rutgers Undergraduate Cognitive Science Club, 24 February 1999.
• "Perceptual Availability and Primary Quality Theories of Color," Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, 29 December 1998.
• "Comments on Hernando's `Belief Attribution, Assertion, and the New Theory of Reference'," Rutgers University Graduate Philosophy Conference, 19 April 1998.
• "Holism: Some Reasons for Buyer's Remorse," Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 27 March 1998.
• "Holism: Some Reasons for Buyer's Remorse," Mid-South Philosophy Conference, 28 February 1998.
• "Comments on Hardcastle's `But Is It Going to Hurt?'," Mid-South Philosophy Conference, 28 February 1998.
• "Perceptual Availability and Primary Quality Theories of Color," Brown University Graduate Student Conference, 22 February 1998.
• "Comments on Armour-Garb's `Contextualism and Attitudinal Beliefs'," New Jersey Regional Philosophy Conference, 22 November 1997.
• "The Case Against Holism Reconsidered," Society for Philosophy and Psychology (poster session), 5 June 1997.
• "Modal Realism and Intentional Content," CUNY Graduate Center Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, 12 April 1997.
• "Mental Content: About Aboutness," Rutgers Undergraduate Philosophy Club, 4 March 1997.
• "The Case Against Holism Reconsidered," Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophy Association, 9 November 1996.
• "Why Content Should Not Be Diagonalized," New Jersey Regional Philosophy Conference, 4 May 1996.
• "Comments on Seltzer's `Psychologism and Logic'," Rutgers University Graduate Philosophy Conference, 21 April 1996.
• "Pretend, Metarepresentation, and Mixed Inference," Syracuse University Graduate Philosophy Conference, 23 March 1996.
• "Comments on Robert Rupert's `The Disjunction Problem: Testing Out'," Mid-South Philosophy Conference, 24 February 1996.
• "Psychological Explanation, Twins, and Narrow Content," Mid-South Philosophy Conference, 23 February 1996.
• "Pretend, Metarepresentation, and Mixed Inference," New Jersey Regional Philosophy Conference, 18 November 1995.
• "The Imagery Debate: A Critical Assessment," Workshop for Contemporary Philosophy, University of Chicago, 9 January 1995.
• "The Distinction of Metaphysics from Epistemology: Kripke's Contingent A Priori and Descartes's Cogito," Illinois Philosophical Association, 6 November 1993.