• 'Asthetic Objectivity', Experience and Objectivity, Auburn University, April 2020.
• TBC, University of Kent, March 2020.
• TBC, Bard College, November 2019
• TBC, Västerås Konstgalleri, September 2019.

Past Talks

• 'What Do We Owe Beautiful Objects?', Philosophical Society, Umeå University, May 2019.
• 'Can There Be Non-Perceptual Aesthetic Qualities?'. Research Seminar, Umeå University, May 2019.
• ‘Being Creative and Being Reflective: Making Contemporary Art’, Creativity Across the Arts and Sciences, University of Bristol, April 2019.
• ‘Aesthetic Value and Epistemic Gain’, Keynote, British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference, University of York, March 2019.
• ‘What Do We Owe Beautiful Objects?’, Research Seminar, Leeds University, February 2019.
• Reply to ‘Learning to See Beauty’, American Society for Aesthetics annual conference, University of Toronto, Oct. 2018.
• ‘On Intelligible Beauty’, Aesthetic Perception, University of Crete, Sep. 2018. NB Cancelled.
• ‘On the Relation Between Aesthetic Value and Epistemic Value’, Art and Epistemology workshop, University of Heidelberg, July 2018.
• ‘Aesthetic Disinterestedness and Collective Responsibility’, Keynote, Disinterested Pleasure, Umniversity of Siegen, March 2018.
• ‘Philosophy of Art and Curated Conversations’, Panel, American Society for Aesthetics annual conference, New Orleans, Nov. 2017.
• ‘Contemplation, Curiosity and Cognition: Aesthetic Value and Epistemic Gain’, Keynote, The Cognitive Relevance of Art, University of Tampere, Sep. 2017. NB Cancelled.
• ‘Aesthetic Value and Epistemic Value in Art’, Keynote, Aesthetics and Epistemology: Themes from the work of Nelson Goodman, University of Nancy, June 2017.
• Lecture series, ‘Aesthetic Experience and Cognition’, Trnava University, April 2017.
• ‘Vad Är Analytisk Estetik?’, Institut för Kulturvetenskaper, Gothenburg University, March 2017.
• ‘On the Relation Between Aesthetic Value and Epistemic Value’, Art, Truth and Knowledge, University of Budapest, Feb. 2017.
• Reply to ‘Aesthetic Obligations’, American Society of Aesthetics annual conference, Seattle, Nov. 2016.
• ‘Is Psychology Relevant to Aesthetics?’, Symposium, British Society of Aesthetics annual conference, Sep. 2016.
• ‘What Do We Owe Beautiful Objects?’, Keynote, European Society of Aesthetics annual conference, University of Barcelona, July 2016.
• ‘What is the Philosophy of Cultural Heritage?’, Uppsala University Campus Gotland, Art History Department, May 2016.
• ‘The Idea Idea and Conceptual Art’, American Society of Aesthetics Pacific Branch annual conference, Asilomar, April 2016.
• ‘What Can We Learn From Fiction?’, Fiction and Knowledge, Lund University, April 2016.
• ‘What is an Aesthetic Reason?’, American Philosophical Association annual conference, Chicago, March 2016.
• ‘The Value of Non-Perceptual Art’, Research Seminar, Gothenburg University, Jan. 2016.
• ‘Is Art a Spandrel?’, Research Seminar, University of Bergen, Dec. 2015.
• Reply to ‘The Virtues of Immoralism’, American Society of Aesthetics annual conference, San Diego, Nov. 2015.
• ‘Can There Be Non-Perceptual Aesthetic Qualities?’, Keynote, Perception and the Arts, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, Sep. 2015.
• ‘Standardizing Hume’s Standard of Taste’, Keynote, Hume Society Annual Conference, University of Stockholm, July 2015.
• ‘Value Judgements and Standards of Normative Assessment’, Aesthetics and Normativity, University of Kent, June 2015.
• ‘Conceptual and Contemporary Art’, Keynote, Nordic Society of Aesthetics annual conference, University of Aarhus, May 2015.
• ‘Value Judgements and Standards of Normative Assessment’, Ethics & Aesthetics, University of Lingnan (Hong Kong), May 2015.
• ‘On Intelligible and Sensible Beauty’, Beauty workshop, Oslo University, May 2015.
• ‘On Beauty in Mathematics’, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Dubrovnik, April 2015.
• ‘What is Intelligible Beauty?’, Scottish Society of Aesthetics, Edinburgh University, March 2015.
• ‘Sensible and Intelligible Beauty’, Stockholm Philosophy Colloquim, March 2015.
• ‘On Indiscernibles and De-materialisation in Danto’, Panel, American Philosophical Association, St Louis, Feb. 2015.
• ‘On Intelligible and Sensible Beauty’, Keynote, British Society of Aesthetics Post-Graduate Conference, University of Kent, Feb. 2015.
• ‘The Aesthetic Value of Reasoning’, Aesthetics & Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Dec. 2014.
• ‘On Demoting Beauty’, Research Seminar, Uppsala University, Sep. 2014.
• ‘On Reasoning in Aesthetic Judgement’, American Society of Aesthetics annual conference, San Antonio, October 2014.
• ‘Learning From Art’, Stockholm June Workshop, Stockholm University, June 2014.
• ‘Depicting at Chauvet Cave’, Keynote, Cognitive and Aesthetic Value, University of York, Feb. 2014.
• ‘Thinking Aesthetically: Philosophizing about Psychology’, Keynote, The Aesthetic Mind and the Origins of Art, University of Florence, Jan. 2014.
• ‘Explaining the Aesthetic: Conceptual Analysis or Aesthetic Psychology?”, Keynote, Consciousness and Experiential Psychology, British Society of Psychology Annual Meeting, University of Bristol, Sep. 2013.
• ‘The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Art’, Research Seminar, University of St Andrews, June 2013.
• ‘Can Value Judgements be Rational?’, Keynote, Judgement and Rationality Workshop, University of Tampere, May 2013.
• ‘On Beauty: A Dialogue’, Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, May 2013.
• ‘Knowing Affect’, Affect and Emotion, King’s College, Cambridge, April 2013.
• ‘Aesthetic Explanation’, Nordic Society of Aesthetics annual conference, University of Uppsala, June 2012.
• ‘What’s So Special About Beauty? Aesthetic Supervenience and Artistic Explanation’, Philosophy and Aesthetics, University of Dubrovnik, April 2012.
• ‘Aesthetic Displeasure: Feeling Bad about Good Art’, London Aesthetics Forum, London Institute of Philosophy, Feb. 2012.
• ‘The Power of Neuro-aesthetics’, Panel, Crunch Art Festival, Hay-on Wye, Nov. 2011.
• ‘Artistic Value and Inversion’, American Society of Aesthetics annual conference, Tampa, Oct. 2011.
• ‘On Voyeurism in Art’, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, June 2011.
• ‘Aesthetics and Archaeology: Ontology and Epistemology’, Durham University, June 2011.
• ‘Conceptual Priority in Empirical Aesthetics’, Aesthetic Anarchy, University of Indiana at Bloomington, May 2011.
• ‘Beauty or the Aesthetic: Which Comes First?’, Research Seminar, Leuven University, May 2011.
• ‘Negative Emotions in Art’, Research Seminar, University of Sussex, March 2011.
• ‘Learning from Art: Defining Aesthetic Profundity in Cognitive Terms’, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabruck, Feb. 2011.
• ‘Beauty: What’s in a Name?’, American Society of Aesthetics annual conference, University of Victoria, Oct 2010.
• ‘Aesthetic Experience: Is there Such a Thing?’, Art and Aesthetic Experience, University of Frankfurt, June 2010.
• ‘On Hating Good Art’, Nordic Society of Aesthetics annual conference, University of Trondheim, June 2009.
• ‘Aesthetics, Morality and Pornography’, Keynote, Aesthetics and Pornography, University of Canterbury at Kent, May 2009.
• ‘Agent-relative and Agent-Neutral Reasons for Aesthetic Judgements’, Research Seminar, Uppsala University, May 2009.
• ‘Aesthetic and Artistic Properties: A Discussion of Berys Gaut’s Art, Emotion and Ethics’, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division annual conference, Vancouver, April 2009.
• ‘Negative Emotion in Aesthetic Experience’, Negative Emotions, Leuven University, March 2009.
• ‘Was Kant an Objectivist about Beauty?’, Annual Lecture Series on Kantian Philosophy, University of Padova, Nov. 2008.
• ‘Moral Phenomenology’, Phenomenology workshop, Durham University, June 2008.
• ‘Aesthetic Reasons: Sibley and his Legacy’, Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, May 2008.
• ‘Viewing Conceptual Art as Art’, Cafe Scientifique, Leeds, March 2008.
• ‘The Aesthetic Value of Ideas’, American Society for Aesthetics annual conference, Milwaukee, Oct. 2006.
• ‘Defending a Reasonable Objectivism for Aesthetic Judgements’, British Society of Aesthetics annual conference, Oxford, Sep. 2005.
• ‘Hume’s Standard of Taste: A Reply to Stephanie Ross’, American Society for Aesthetics annual conference, University of Texas, Oct. 2004.
• ‘Aesthetic Empiricism and Art as Performance’, Art in Context, University of Maribor, June 2004.