Interviews & Talks

"Provenance and the Natural World," An Interview with Notion, a publication of the Exeter Philosophy Society at the University of Exeter. This offers an introduction to some of my current research.

I was interviewed for this piece on "What You Can Do With a Philosophy Degree"

This is a very short NPR Academic Minute piece on "How Science Connects Us To Places."

This is one of several interviews I did with Robert Lawrence Kuhn for the series Closer to Truth. This one focuses on evolutionary theory.

You can find more interviews and episodes here.

This is a joint talk with Michelle I. Turner, on our co-authored project on "Leaving Traces."

This is a favorite interview snippet from Closer to Truth. We get into contingency, convergence, counterfactuals, and what it all means for thinking about evolution and religion.

This interview gets into questions about Darwin's account of the conscience, and more general questions about the relationship between evolutionary history and normative issues.

This was part of a student organized TEDx event at Connecticut College. It gives a short introduction to my cognitivist views in aesthetics.

This is a public book talk that I gave at UConn-Avery Point in 2023. The One Book/One Region program of southeastern Connecticut had chosen Mona Hanna-Attisha's book about the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, What The Eyes Don't See, as the summer reading selection. (It's a fantastic book.) Here I talk about some of the philosophical issues that the book raises.

In the spring of 2025 I gave this talk on "Environmental Caution and Generative AI," at Connecticut College. The talk focuses heavily on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and Carson's critique of the way in which people during the post-war years were deploying synthetic chemical pesticides. I argue that the enthusiasm for chemical pesticides is a useful analogue for today's enthusiasm for generative AI.

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