Talks

Presentations 

2024:     

o “Empathy Machines and Experiential Knowledge”. Online talk (in VR) for MA course on Virtual Reality. Hong Kong University.

o “Social Locations and Experiential Knowledge”. Social Epistemology Workshop. Monash University.

2023:     

o Two presentations of material from my then draft book manuscript Knowing What It Is Like to the Philosophy of Mind Work-In-Progress group at the Australian National University.

2021:     

o “Transformative Experience and the Equivocation Objections”. Phenomenal Knowledge and Testimony Workshop for the How Does it Feel? project run jointly by the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Liverpool.

o   “Comments on Bob Beddor and Carlotta Pavese’s ‘Skills as Knowledge’”. 4th Online Meeting of the Asian Epistemology Network.

2019:     

o   “Intellectualism, Luck, and Controlled Action”. Know-How and Skill Workshop. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

o   “Knowledge of Experience for the Uninitiated”.  20th Anniversary Arché Reunion Conference. University of St Andrews. 

o   “Know How and Skill: The Puzzles of Priority and Equivalence”. Language and Mind Seminar. Arché Research Centre, University of St Andrews.

o   “Transformative Choices and the Structure of Experience”. Epistemic & Personal Transformation: Dealing with the Unknowable & Unimaginable workshop, University of Queensland. 

o   “Transformative Choices and the Structure of Experience”. Deakin Philosophy Seminar, Deakin University. 

o   “Know How and Skill: The Puzzles of Priority and Equivalence”. ACU Work-in-Progress Seminar, Australian Catholic University

2018:

o   “Moral Testimony and Knowing-Wh”. ACU International Conference on Moral Epistemology

2017:

o   “Knowing What it is Like and Learning from Others”. Colloquium talk for the Department of Philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest. 

o   “Knowing What it is Like and Learning from Others”. Seminar talk for the Philosophy Department at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

o   “Know How and Skill: The Puzzles of Priority”. Norms and Capacities in Epistemology Worksop, Freie Universität Berlin.

o   “Intellectualism and Testimony”. Open Session, 2017 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, University of Edinburgh.

o   “Knowing What It Is Like and Testimony”, Seminar Talk, Department of Philosophy, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. 

o   “Transformative Experience by Degrees”. The Experience Project’s Collaborative UNC and Notre Dame Workshop, Chicago. 

o   “Transformative Experience and Testimony”. Transformative Experience Workshop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

2016:

o   “Intellectualism and Testimony”. Soochow International Workshop on “Knowledge and Action”, Soochow University.

o   “Knowing What It Is Like and Testimony”. Philosophy Department Seminar, Soochow University.

o   “Knowing What It Is Like and Testimony”. Department of Philosophy Seminar, Lingnan University.

o    “Knowing What It Is Like and Testimony”. Philosophy Department Seminar, Wuhan University.

o   “Intellectualism and Testimony”. Philosophy Department Seminar, Wuhan University.

o   “Knowing What It Is Like, Choice, and Consent”. Philosophy Department Seminar, Kyoto University.

o   “Knowing What It Is Like and Testimony”. Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, University of Tokyo

o   “Knowing What It Is Like and Testimony”. Thursday Seminar, School of Philosophy, Australian National University

2015:

o   “Knowledge of experience and the limits of empathy”. Perspectives on Empathy Conference, The Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE), Macquarie University.

o   “Transformative Experience and Testimony”. Philosophy & Bioethics Staff Seminar Series, Monash University

o    “Transformative Experience and Knowledge-Wh”. Department of Philosophy Thursday Seminar Series, University of Melbourne

o    “Revisionary Intellectualism”. Deakin Philosophy Seminar, Deakin University

2013

o   “Revisionary Intellectualism and Gettier”. The Gettier Problem at 50 Conference, Scots Philosophical Association, University of Edinburgh.

o   “Revisionary Intellectualism and Gettier”. Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Forum, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London

2012

o  “Intuiting as Possessing”. Philosophical Insights Conference, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London 

2011 

o   “Understanding, Enabling and Knowing”. Inferentialism and the Epistemology of Logic Workshop, Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen.

o   “Evidence and Intuition”. Epistemology Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh.

o “Evidence and Intuition”. The XIII Taller d'Investigació en Filosofia, LOGOS Research Group, The University Barcelona. 

o  “Evidence and Intuition”. Research on the A priori Workshop, Emmy Noether Research Group, University of Cologne

o “The Nature and Value of Practical Knowledge”. Rutgers-Arché Knowing How Workshop, The University of St Andrews.

o   “Three Conceptions of Practical Knowledge”. European Epistemology Network Meeting 2011, Lund Sweden.

2010

o   Comments on Jason Stanley’s ‘Ryle on Knowing How’ American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting 2010. 

2009

o   “Knowledge Pluralism”. Winter Reflectorium 2009, University of St Andrews.

o    “Knowing How Without Knowing That”, Senior Seminar Series, University of Glasgow. 

2008

o   “Regarding a Regress” Post-doc Seminar, University of St Andrews

o   “Knowing How Without Knowing That”, Epistemology at The Beach Conference, Australian National University, Kioloa Campus.

2006

o   “The Ability Hypothesis and the New Knowledge-how” 3rd Arché Graduate Conference, The University of St Andrews

o   “The Ability Hypothesis and the New Knowledge-how” AAP Conference 2006

2005

o   “Rethinking a Regress” Meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society, Duke University.

o   “Rethinking a Regress”, Work in Progress Series, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

o   “Vagueness in the Worlds” Work in Progress Series, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

o    “Rethinking a Regress”, AAP Conference 2005, University of Sydney.