Talks

2011

“On The Standing to Blame” Ethics and Epistemology Working Group, Fordham Philosophy Department, New York, NY, October 2011

"Wrongdoing and Repair: On the Standing to Blame" Union College, Department of Philosophy, Schenectady, NY, October 2011

"Forgiveness, Inspiration, and the Powers of Reparation" Boston University, Ethics Reading Group, Boston, MA, April 2011

2010

"In Defense of Negative Emotions" Cafe Humanities, New York City, August 2010 (A public lecture organized by Columbia's Alumni Association.)

“Respecting Aesthetic Subjects” Workshop on Respect for Persons, Emerald Isle, North Carolina, May 2010 

“The Ethics of Moral Criticism” Philosophy Department, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, April 2010

2009

Globalist Attitudes and the Fittingness Objection” Princeton University Center for Human Values, Princeton NJ, December 2009

“Privacy, Respect, and Artistic Subjects” North American Society for Social Philosophy, Philadelphia, July 2009 

"Racial Vices," Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Black Philosophers, Chicago, February 2009

2008

“Globalist Attitudes and Special Relations,” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 2008 

2007

“Anger, Oppression, and Virtue,” Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy, New York City, November 2007

“Anger, Resistance, and the Possibility of Degeneration: Virtue Ethics and the Negative Emotions,” Minnesota International Conference in Ethics, University of Minnesota, July 2007

“Fording the Great Divide: on the Possibilities and Limitations of Human-Animal Friendship,” Philosophy, Film, and Fiction Interdisciplinary Working Group, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 2007

2006

“How to Argue About Moral Emotions,” Society for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Toronto, May 2006

2005 

"Beyond Scorn: On Overcoming our Contempt for Persons,” 2005 Conference in Honor of Tom Hill, University of Minnesota, November 2005

“Rethinking Repentance as a Reason to Forgive,” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2005 

“In Praise of Contempt,”
•    Department of Philosophy, York University, February 2005
•    Department of Philosophy, Occidental College, February 2005
•    Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, January 2005
•    Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, January 2005

2004 

“In Praise of Contempt,” Department of Philosophy, Temple University, October 2004

“Can Liberals Justly and Effectively Inflict Shaming Punishments?” 21st International Social Philosophy Conference, Creighton University, July 2004

“Contempt as a Response to Sexist Oppression and Oppressors,” Feminist Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, University of Western Ontario, June 2004

“Disvaluing our Relationships with Others,” Special Conference on Values: Values, Rational Choice and the Will, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, March 2004