Presentations

"Acts of Address and Acts of Reference," Workshop on Judging and Entertaining: A Perennial Debate, University of Copenhagen, Sept. 13-14, 2023.

"Reference and Address," University of Ilinois-Chicago, Oct. 24, 2022.

"Act-Type Multipropositionalism and Communication," with Ainhoa Fernandez, Workshop on Multipropositionalism, Lisbon, Sept.29-30, 2022.

"The Varieties of Cancellation," Symposium on the Force/Content Distinction, College de France, Paris, June 16-18, 2021.

"Singular Propositions"

    University of Texas, Austin, Feb. 7, 2020.

    Workshop on the Act-Type Theory of Propositions, University of the Basque Country,  Dec. 12-13, 2019.

    Pragmasophia II, Lisbon, Sept. 2018.

    University of Chicago, Wittgenstein Workshop, April 20, 2018.

    University of Kansas, Nov. 10, 2017.

"The Classificatory Conception of Propositions"

    Propositions and Linguistic/Cognitive Action, Dusseldorf, May 24-26, 2017, (slides).

    Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition, Vienna, May 19-20, 2017 (slides).

    Intentionality: New Directions Workshop, University of Cambridge, March 21-23, 2017, (slides).

    University of Manitoba, Metaphysics of Propositions Workshop, Nov. 18-19, 2016, (slides). 

"Mont Blanc Revisited: Frege and Russell on Propositional Content," (slides).

    University of Minnesota, Oct. 16, 2017.

    SSHAP conference, Calgary, May 8-10, 2017.  

"On Cancellation" 

    Lawrence University, February 29, 2016. (slides)

    Ninth Barcelona Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Reference, June 22-24, 2015. (slides)  

    Texas Tech Workshop on Propositions, November 7-8, 2014. (slides)

"Types of Speech Acts", (slides).

    St. Cloud State, November 5, 2015.

Comments on "Doing without Propositions," by Kevan Edwards. (comments, handout) 

    Pacific APA Colloquium Session, Vancouver, April 3, 2015.  

Critical remarks on New Thinking About Propositions, by Jeffrey King, Scott Soames, and Jeff Speaks. (comments, handout)

    Central APA Author Meets Critics Session, St. Louis, Feb. 21, 2015.

"Three Pictures of Propositional Content," Central APA Symposium on Naturalistic Theories of Propositions, with Scott Soames and Friederike Moltmann, Chicago, February 26, 2014. (handout)

"Propositional Content and Types of Speech Acts," (slides). 

    University of Manitoba, October 24, 2014.

    Ohio State University, February 4, 2014.  

"Propositional Content, Semantic Content, and Types of Speech Acts," New Work on Speech Acts Conference, Columbia University, September 27-9, 2013. (slides)

"Bipolarity and Sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus," Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy Conference, McMaster University, May 24-6, 2012. (slides)

Context and Content Lectures, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, March-April 2012.

    "Propositions as Types I: Predication and the Content-Force Distinction," March 6, 2012. (slides) 

    "Propositions as Types II: Proper Names," March 13, 2012. (slides)

    "Propositions as Types III: Propositional Attitude Reports," March 20, 2012. (slides) 

    "First-Person Propositions," Workshop on Propositions and Propositional Attitudes, April 6, 2012. (slides)

"First-Person Propositions"

    Center for the Study of Mind and Nature, University of Oslo, April 3, 2012.

    University of Stirling, April 12, 2012.

    University of Glasgow, April 17, 2012.

    University of Missouri, September 30, 2011.

"Quine's Criticisms of Quantified Modal Logic," NEH Summer Seminar on Quine and Davidson, Princeton University, June 2011.

"Three Problems in Philosophy of Language," Itasca Community College Philosophy Club, Grand Rapids, MN, April 13, 2011.

Invited Remarks at John Searle's 50th Anniversary, UC Berkeley, February 2009.

"Modest and Ambitious Ontology," LOGOS conference on Metametaphysics, Barcelona, June 2008.

"The Varieties of Content"

    Minnesota State Mankato, September 2007.

    St. Cloud State, November 2006.

    UNC Chapel Hill, November 2006.

"Conceiving of Pain," (with Brendan O'Sullivan), Alabama Philosophical Society, October 2006. 

"Reflexive Content and the Modal Argument," (with Brendan O'Sullivan), Central Division APA, April 2006.

"How Wittgenstein Defeated Russell's Multiple Relation Theory of Judgment," Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Winnipeg, October 2005.

"Questions, Orders, and Propositions," Santa Cruz Language and Linguistics Reading Group, UC Santa Cruz, November 2004.

"Animal Minds and Animal Behavior," UC Santa Cruz, November 2004.

"A Dilemma About Necessity"

    Joint Session of the Mind/Aristotelian Society, University of Kent, July 2004.

    Central Division APA, April 2004.

    Northwest Philosophy Conference, Reed College, October 2003.

"The Content-Force Distinction" 

    University of Minnesota, Duluth, December 2003.

    UC Davis, October 2002.

"Predication and Mood"

    University of Minnesota, February 2003.

    Harvard University, January 2003.

    Bates College, January 2003.

"Russell, Frege, and the Unity of the Proposition"

    University of St. Andrews, May 2002.

    Indiana University, April 2002.

    UC Berkeley, November 2001.

"What Propositions Could Not Be," Pacific Division APA, April 2001.

"Attitude Reports and Semantic Intuitions," Pacific Division APA, April 2000.