Photo: PR - Annual Meeting of the Danish Philosophical Association
[Keynote Lecvture]. Aarhus University, 2015.
Talks & Presentations
Recent & Forthcoming Talks and Presentations
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Conferences, Workshops and Invited Lectures
@ 2024 (TBD) Leibniz University 0f Hannover, philosophy department colloquium. Title: TBA. [Organized by Uljana Feest & Nicola Mößner]
@ 2024 (TBD) University of L'Aquila, philosophy department colloquium. Title: TBA. [Organized by Lorenzo Greco]
@ (October) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, philosophy department colloquium. Title: TBA.
@ 2024 (October). University of Helsinki, Department of Philosophy. Workshop on moral responsibility. [Organized by Lillian O'Brien & Dane Gogoshin.]
2024 (June) Friedrich Alexander University, Institute of Philosophy, Erlangen Workshop on "Reactive Attitudes in the Strawsonian Tradition". With R. Jay Wallace and others. [Organized by Erasmus Mayr]
2023 (September) University of Glasgow. Philosophy department colloquium. Title: "'Morality' and Responsibility Scepticism'".
2023 (September) . University of Salzburg. Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA). University of Salzburg, Austria. Invited keynote speaker. Title: "'Morality' and Responsibility Scepticism".
2023 (May). [Zoom] Ohio Northern University; Online Workshop on Free Will & Moral Luck. "Moral Luck and Disenchanted Ethics" [Organized by Robert Hartman.]
2023 (March) - King s College London; The Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law. Lecture Series on Practical Agency. '"Morality' and Responsibility Skepticism" [Organized by Massimo Renzo.]
2022 (August) - Bern, Switzerland. 9th International Lauener Symposium on Analytical Philosophy on Themes from Susan Wolf. Invited speaker. "The Reason View and 'the Morality System'".
2022 (July) -- Portland, Oregon. NEH Summer Institute: David Hume in the Twenty-first Century: Perpetuating the Enlightenment. Invited speaker. Organizers Angela Coventry & Elizabeth S. Radcliffe.
2022 (June) -- University of Copenhagen, "Workshop on Action & Responsibility". Title: "Responsibility and the New Scepticism". [Organized by ColnAct/ Filippos Stamatiou]
2021 (October ) -- University of Zürich, Center for Ethics. Masterclass on Moral Responsibility. [via Zoom] Invited teacher. Organized and led by Philipp Schwind & Jörg Löschke.
2021 (September) University of Antwerp, Belgium. Conference: ‘Natural Religion and the Scottish Enlightenment’. Invited keynote speaker (title: "David Hume and the Radical Enlightenment"). Organised by Willem Lemmens & Esther Kroeker.
2020 (March) University of Antwerp. Antwerp Philosophy Lecture: Title: Responsibility and the New Scepticism. Organisers: Jo Bervoets, Emma Moormann, and Willem Lemmens
2019 (November) KU Leuven, Belgium . P.F. STRAWSON AT 100 International Conference : "Responsibility after 'Morality': Strawson's Naturalism and Williams' Genealogy" [Organizers: Prof. Stefaan Cuypers, Prof. Stefan Rummens, Dr. Benjamin De Mesel, Audun Bengtson, Sybren Heyndels]
2019 (October) Chigwell School, Essex: The Williams Project: 'The Life and Philosophy of Bernard Williams'
* 2019 (June) KU Leuven - University of Leuven . Institute of Philosophy. Conference: “Free Will and Methodology” (June 6-7, 2019). Keynote speaker. [Co- organized by Stefaan Cuypers and Audun Bengtson] Title: “Free Will and the Tragic Predicament: Reflections on Williams”.
- * 2018 (November) University of British Columbia (February). UBC Association of Professors Emeriti. Topic: Free Speech. Panelist and Presenter.
- * 2018 (March) University of British Columbia . Nexus | ISGP Annual Student Conference: “Is Responsibility an Illusion?”. Keynote speaker.
- *2017 (November) University of Hamburg . Title: Hume’s Scepticism and the Problem of Atheism”. Hume Workshop. Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. (Organized by Máté Veres, Stephan Schmid and Josef Stern.)
- *2017 (October) Ferrara, Italy . Title : “Hume’s Sensible Atheism”. International Symposium "Around the Eighteenth Century" (Organized by Andrea Branchi.)
- * 2017 (June) University of Bonn. Conference: "Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Historical and Cultural Perspective". (Organized by M. Forster, M. Gabriel, and C. Wenze.)
- * 2017 (June) Ghent University . Conference: “Justice Without Retribution”. Title: “Naturalism, Genealogy and Responsibility Scepticism. (Organized by G. Caruso, F. Focquaert, D. Pereboom, E. Shaw.)
- * 2017 (February) Central European University, Budapest : Invited lecturer CEU Center for Religious Studies, for the university-wide doctoral seminar “Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion”. Topic: TBA. (Organized by Aziz Al-Azmeh.)
- * 2016 (December) Einstein Foundation, Berlin. Workshop: "Moral Address". Title: “Moral Address and Free Will Pessimism”. (Organized by R. Jay Wallace and Daniele Bruno.)
- * 2016 (October) Basel University. Seminar on Scepticism. Title: Naturalism, Genealogy and Responsibility Scepticism. (Organized by Gunnar Hindrichs.)
- * 2016 (May) Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Stockholm. Invited Lecture. Title – Free Will Pessimism.
- * 2016 (May) Oxford Hume Forum. Invited Talk. Title: “Hume’s Sensible Atheism”.
- * 2015 (November) Oxford University (November): Invited Keynote Speaker: Interdisciplinary Network on the ‘Affections and Ethics’ at Oxford University. Conference on "Feeling for Another: The Role of Empathy in Moral Theory and Moral Psychology. Title: “Sympathy, Impartiality and ‘the Morality System’”. (Organized by Erasmus Mayr and Lorenzo Greco.)
- * 2015 (November) "Free Will Pessimism". Tulane University, The Murphy Institute. “New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility”. (Organized by David Shoemaker.)
- * 2015 (October): "Free Will Pessimism". Philosophical Society at the University of Gothenburg.
- *2015 (April): "Hume, Williams and the 'Science of Man'". Hume Society Session @ American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. With Graciela De Pierris (Stanford). (Organized by David Landy.)
- *2015 (March): Invited Keynote Speaker. Annual Meeting of the Danish Philosophical Association. Aarhus University, Denmark. Topic: “Free Will Pessimism”. (Organized by Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen.)
- *2014 (September) The American University of Rome (September): Mandeville Readings in Rome. Panel participant (with Eugenio Lecaldano) discussing Mikko Tolonen's Mandeville and Hume Anatomists of Civil Society. [Organized by Andrea Branchi.]
- *2014 (April) -The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), Oxford University. (April): The Moral and Political Legacy of Bernard Williams:
“Hume, Williams and ‘the Morality System’”.
- *2014 (April) “Compatibilism, Pessimism and ‘the Morality System’.” University of Chicago, Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values: “Skepticism about Freedom and Responsibility” [The other speakers were Sarah Conly (Bowdoin), Jesse Prinz (CUNY), Saul Smilansky (Haifa), and Gideon Yaffe (Yale). (Organized by Brian Leiter.)
- *2014 (February) University of Calgary (February) - invited Keynote Speaker – “Old Atheism in New Bottles: Historical Reflections on the Contemporary Debate”. "The 1st Annual Canadian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference."
- 2013 (May): Yale University: New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, "Hume's Scepticism and the Problem of Atheism"
- *2013 (April): “Compatibilism, Pessimism and ‘the Morality System’”. Invited speaker. University of Delaware: "Free Will and the Scientific Worldview: Optimistic and Pessimistic Perspectives." [The other speakers were John Martin Fischer, Cendri Hutcherson, and Derk Pereboom – organized by Seth Shabo.]
- *2012 (March): “Critical Compatibilism and the Limits of Free Will”. Invited keynote speaker at the Western Canadian Undergraduate Conference of Philosophy at the University of Victoria.
- 2011 (November): “Responsibility, Naturalism and ‘the Morality System’”, 2011 New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility, The Murphy Institute, Tulane University. (Organized by David Shoemaker.)
- * 2011 (July): “Hume’s Scepticism and the Problem of Atheism”. Philosophy in Assos (Turkey) - David Hume On God, Religion and Morality: [Organized by Orsan Oymen.]
- * 2011 (May) “Author Meets Critics session on Riddle of Hume's Treatise”, The New England Colloquium on Early Modern Philosophy, Dartmouth College [Critics: Justin Broackes and Ken Winkler, ]
- * 2010 (October): Moral Agency, Deliberative Awareness and Conscious Control: Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Holland): “Responsibility, Naturalism and ‘the Morality System’”.
- *2010 (May) Nanjing Normal University, China (2 lectures). “Moral Sense and Responsibility”; “Hobbes and the Free Will Problem”
- * 2009 (June) Humean Readings: Themes from Hume: University of Rome, La Sapienza; “Author meets Critics - The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise” [Critics: Eugenio Lecaldano, Luigi Turco, Paola Zanardi, Peter Kail ]
- * 2009 (April) American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division: “Author meets Critics - The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise” [Critics: Joseph Campbell, Don Garrett, James Harris]
- * 2009 (February) Second Annual North Sea Early Modern Philosophy Workshop. Leiden University, The Netherlands [Theme: Moral and Political Theory]: "Of Gods and Clocks: On the Hobbes-Bramhall Debate". (Organized by Eric Schliesser).
- * 2006 ISSEI International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Malta: “Hume’s Lucretian Mission”
- * 2006 Humean Readings: Themes from Hume: University of Rome, La Sapienza: “Hume’s Lucretian Mission”. [Orgnized by Tito Magri, Eugenio Lecaldano, et al.]
- *2006 Bled Philosophical Conference, on Freedom and Determinism; Bled, Slovenia. “Free Will, Art and Morality”
- *2006 Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, Washington State University; “History, Implantation and (Selective) Hard Compatibilism”. (Organized by Joe Campbell & Michael O’Rourke.)
- *2006 American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (Portland, Oregon): Session on Hume and Naturalism; “Naturalism, Religion and Hume’s Lucretian Mission”
2005 Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, University of Lisbon; “Compatibilism, History and Implantation Problems”
- *2004 Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics, University of Dundee; “Moral Sense and Virtue in Hume’s Ethics”. (Organized by Tim Chappell.)
- *2004 Moralische Motivation. Kants Ethik in der Diskussion, Marburg University; “Practical Reason and Motivational Scepticism”
- * 2003 Lecture on Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy, University of Rome, La Sapienza; “Irreligion and the Impartial Spectator in Smith’s Moral System”
- *2001 28th Annual Meeting of the Hume Society, University of Victoria; “Author-Meets-Critics on Freedom and Moral Sentiment” [Critics: Francis Dauer, Jackie Taylor]
*2001 Humean Readings: Themes from Hume: University of Rome, La Sapienza: “Irreligion and Hume’s Treatise” . [Orgnized by Tito Magri, Eugenio Lecaldano, et al.]
- *1999 Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (April), Washington State University; "Moral Sense and Wide-Responsibility"
- *1998 Hume Society, Eastern APA: Washington, DC; "Newtonianism, Immaterialism and Hume's 'Atheism'"
- *1998 25th Annual Meeting of the Hume Society, University of Stirling, Scotland; "Hume's Moral Sense and Wide-Responsibility"
- *1998 Conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology: Utrecht, Netherlands; "Compatibilist-Fatalism". (Organized by Ton van den Beld.)
- 1995 22nd Annual Hume Conference, University of Utah; "Hume on the Involuntary Nature of Moral Character". [Organized by Don Garrett.]
- 1995 The Scottish Tradition in Philosophy, University of Aberdeen; "Smith on Moral Sentiment and Moral Luck"
- 1993 20th Annual Hume Conference, University of Ottawa; "Hume's Treatise and the Clarke-Collins Controversy"
- 1991 Le Moyne Forum on Religion and Literature, Syracuse, NY; "Epigrams, Pantheists and Freethought in Hume's Treatise"
- 1984 11th Annual Hume Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik; "Hume's Treatise and Hobbes's The Elements of Law"
Papers Given at University Colloquia and Seminars
"Responsibility and the New Scepticism"
- @ University of Glasgow. September 2023
- Philosophy Department Colloquium: Zürich University. May 2022
- Philosophy Department Colloquium: Lund University. May 2022.
- Philosophy, University of Haifa . March 2019
- Departmental Seminar. Faculty of Law. Tel Aviv University. March 2019.
- Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Linköping University. October 2018
"Responsibility after 'Morality': Strawson's Naturalism and Williams' Genealogy"
- Department of Philosophy, Aarhus University, Denmark. October 2021.
- LGRP Workshop, Lund University, November 2020.
"Free Will and the Tragic Predicament: Making Sense of Williams".
- Philosophy Department Colloquium: Uppsala University. November 2019:
- Philosophy Department Colloquium: Copenhagen University. November 2019.
“Responsibility, Illusion and Metaphysical Attitudes". Workshop: Scepticism, Dualism and Illusionism: Themes from Smilansky. - Lund University.
- LGRP Workshop. October 2017.
“Naturalism, Genealogy and Responsibility Scepticism”.
- Queen’s University at Kingston. November 2016.
- Lund University. May 2017.
- Central European University, September 2017.
“Hume and Williams on Voluntariness and ‘the Blame System’”.
- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Seminar on "The Will" (organized by Laurent Jaffro & André Charrak): May 2014.
"Compatibilism and Moral Luck: Problem or Predicament?",
- University of Montreal - (Inter university Research Group on Ethics): January 2014.
“Responsibility, Naturalism and “the Morality System”.
- University of Arizona: February 2012
“Hume’s Scepticism and the Problem of Atheism”
- University of Arizona: February 2012
- Portland State University: May 2012
- University of California, San Diego (January, 2014)
- Basel University: November 2016
“Critical Compatibilism and the Limits of Free Will”
- Moral Philosophy Seminar: Oxford University: October, 2010
- Open University, November 2010
“Is Moral Responsibility Truly Impossible?”
- University of Aberdeen, June 2008
“Free Will, Art and Morality”
- Cambridge University (Moral Sciences Club); February 2007
- Kwantlen College, Vancouver; March 2007
“Hume’s Lucretian Mission: Is it Self-Refuting?”
- University of California at San Diego, January 2007
- University of Edinburgh, March 2007
“History, Implantation and Selective Hard Compatibilism”
- University of British Columbia, Spring Colloquium; March 2006
- Queen’s University at Kingston, April 2006
- McGill University, April 2006
“Irreligion and Hume’s Treatise”
- Ithaca College; September 2004
- University of Lodz (Poland); September 2005
"The Material World and Natural Religion in Hume's Treatise" ["Newtonianism, Immaterialism and Hume's 'Atheism'"]
- University of Utah: February 1999
- Canadian Philosophical Association,
University of Alberta, May, 2000
- University of Toronto, March 2002
“Responsibility, History and the New Compatibilism”
- Canadian Philosophical Association, Laval University, Quebec; May, 2001
“Compatibilism and Moral Sense” ["Moral Sense and Wide Responsibility”]
- Western Canadian Philosophical Association,
University of British Columbia, November 1998
- University of Calgary, January 2002
- University of Alberta, January 2003
- University of Victoria, March 2003
- North Carolina Philosophical Society,
Duke University, February 2005
"Hume on the Involuntariness of Moral Character",
- Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Regina, October 1994
"Compatibilist Fatalism" ["Optimists, Pessimists, and Compatibilist Fatalists"
- University of Washington (Seattle): May, 1993
- Simon Fraser University: October 1993
- University of British Columbia: February 29, 1996 [BUCH D202]
- Edinboro University, Pennsylvania: April 1997
- University of Virginia: April 1997
"Hume on Character and Responsibility"
- University of British Columbia: March, 1992
"Strawson's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility"
- Simon Fraser University: January, 1991
- McGill University: February, 1991
"Smith on Moral Sentiment and Moral Luck"
- Adam Smith Symposium,
University of British Columbia, September 1990
- University of Washington (Seattle): May, 1995
"Hume on Personal Identity"
- Stanford University: February, 1990 [John Perry's seminar on Personal Identity]
"The Justification of Punishment"
- University of Virginia: January, 1988
- Stanford University: January, 1988
- University of Chicago: January, 1988
"Causation, Compulsion & Compatibilism"
- Simon Fraser University: November, 1987
- University of British Columbia, November, 1987
- Brown University: February, 1989
"Nozick, Need and Charity"
- Cambridge University: October, 1984 [Social & Political Theory Seminar]
- University of British Columbia: February, 1987
Invited Participant:
2022 (July) -- Portland, Oregon. NEH Summer Institute: David Hume in the Twenty-first Century: Perpetuating the Enlightenment. Invited speaker. Organizers Angela Coventry & Elizabeth S. Radcliffe.
2021 (October ) University of Zurich, Center for Ethics. Masterclass on Moral Responsibility. Invited teacher. Organized and led by Philipp Schwind & Jörg Löschke.
- 2019 (May) The annual meeting of the Western Association of College and University Business Officers (WACUBO) - Vancouver, BC. Conference panel on: "Can Free Speech and Protection from Harm Coexist in Higher Education?". [Monday, 6th May @3:45 pm – 5:00 pm ]
- 2013 (March) Invited Commentator on Miranda Fricker's "What's the Point of Blame?". APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco.
- 2012 (September). “Responsibility & Relationships: 50 years of Strawson’s ‘Freedom and Resentment”. College of William & Mary, Williamsburg VA.. Comments on Gary Watson, “Strawson on Responsibility and Sociality”.
- 2012 (June). “Workshop on the Manipulation Argument”. Central European University, Budapest. Presentation: Manipulation and Moral Standing
- 2011 (September). Invited commentator on Neal Tognazzini , “Blame as a volitional activity”. USF Conference on Responsibility, Agency, and Persons”.. University of San Francisco.
- 2011 (August) “Moral Psychology”, Summer School of the Netherlands Graduate School for Research in Practical Philosophy. Presentation: “The Free Will Problem”.
- 2010 (August). “Hume Fest: An Informal Workshop”, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada. “Hume’s Legacy and the Idea of British Empiricism”.
- 2009 (July) “Aspects of Responsibility”: Summer Course, Central European University, Budapest. Presentations on: Compatibilism and Pessimism; Moral Capacity and Moral Emotion; Is Morality Unfair?
- 2009 (April) “Spring Roundtable on Promissory Obligations”, Eagle Ridge Resort; Galena, Illinois. Sponsored by the Illinois Program in Law and Philosophy.
- 2009 (February) “Optimism, Pessimism and Critical Compatibilism”: Contemporary Free Will Workshop at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
- 2007 (January) “Liberty, Commerce and Character in Hume’s Essays”. Liberty Fund, Pasadena, California.
- 2006 (May) “Freedom and Responsibility in Addison and Smith”: Liberty Fund. Seattle, Washington
- 2005 (April) Hume’s Naturalism, Hester Seminar, Wake Forest University
- 2004 (October) Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations: Liberty Fund. Portland, Oregon
- 2000 American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, New York
- 2000 (December). Commentator (on P. Kail: "Hume's Second Thoughts about Personal Identity")
- 1992 (February). "Can We be Good Without God?", Feb. 6, 1992. Debate with Paul Chamberlain (Trinity Western University). Sponsored by the UBC Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship.
- 1987 (July). "An Ethical Discussion on Death and Dying". Medical Grand Rounds, Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). July 2, 1987. B Lecture Hall, Faculty of Medicine Bldg.