“Passion, Vice, and Illness: Lacheté in Descartes’ Passions of the Soul.” Uppsala University. December 2025.
“Passion, Vice, and Illness: Lacheté in Descartes’ Passions of the Soul.” Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. Halifax. July 2025.
"Passion, Vice, and Illness: Lâcheté in Descartes' Passions of the Soul." NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy. Humboldt Universität Berlin. June, 2025.
“Descartes moraliska perfektionism” (Descartes’s Moral Perfectionism). Lund University. October, 2024.
“The Honorable, the Useful, the Pleasurable: Buridan on Good and Goodness” (with Alexander Stöpfgeshoff). Uppsala University. May 2024.
“The Honorable, the Useful, the Pleasurable: Buridan on Good and Goodness” (with Alexander Stöpfgeshoff). Stockholm University. April, 2024.
“The Honorable, the Useful, the Pleasurable: Buridan on Good and Goodness” (with Alexander Stöpfgeshoff). Oslo Centre for Advanced Study. November, 2023.
“The Millian Account of Meaning in Life”. Fourth International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, University of Pretoria (conference held online). 2022.
"The Millian Account of Meaning in Life”. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. February 2021.
“Descartes On How We Should Feel about Death”. Oslo University. April, 2020.
“A Cartesian Distinction in Virtue: Moral and Perfect”. Talk at the 11th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy (Helsinki). May, 2018.
“Morality, Happiness, and Perfect Virtue in Descartes’ Ethics”. Talk at the Descartes Society at the Pacific APA (San Diego), March, 2018.
“Living Well for Humans”. Virtue, Skill and Practical Reason. Cape Town. August, 2017.
“Enjoying Freedom: Value, Virtue and Happiness in Descartes’ Ethical Thought”. History of Philosophy Research Seminar. Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki. December, 2016.
“Subjective Attraction Meets Subjective Attractiveness: Towards A Plausible Subjectivism About Meaning In Life”. Meaning in Life and Objective Value. Umeå University. November, 2016.
“Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics: Does It Have A Future?” Conference on Virtue Theory. Oslo University. November, 2016.
“Wolf’s Critique of Subjectivism About Meaning in Life: A Critical Response”. Eudaimonia and the Meaning of Life. Workshop with Susan Wolf. Oslo University. September, 2016.
“The Possibility of Living Well: Value and Virtue in Descartes’ Ethical Thought”. Mind, Nature, and Morality: A Conference in Honour of Lilli Alanen. Helsinki. September, 2016.
“Enjoying Freedom: Descartes on Virtue and Happiness”. Happiness and Virtue. Dublin. June, 2016.
“The Possibility of Living Well: Value and Virtue in Descartes’s Ethical Thought”. Workshop on Descartes’s ethics. Turku. June, 2016.
“The Possibility of Living Well: Value, Virtue and Knowledge in Descartes’s Ethical Philosophy”. Self-Interest and Other-Regard. Reykjavik. November, 2015.
“Why Subjectivism About Meaning In Life Might Not Be So Bad After All”. Ethics and Explanations. University of Nottingham. October, 2015.
“Why Subjectivism About Meaning In Life Might Not Be So Bad After All”. Virtue, Law and the Organization of a Good Life. Uppsala University. September, 2015.
“Two Types of Answer to the Question, ‘What Count as an Ethical Excellence in Humans?’” Swedish National Congress in Philosophy. June, 2015.
“Two Types of Answer to the Question, ‘What Counts as an Ethical Excellence in Humans?’” Workshop at Lund University. May, 2015.
“Virtue as the Skill of Life”. Workshop on Morality and the Good Life. Uppsala University. November, 2014.
“Objections to Virtue Ethics” (with Jens Johansson). Gothenburg University. June, 2014.
“Objections to Virtue Ethics” (with Jens Johansson). Uppsala University. June, 2014.
“Virtue and Value”. Workshop with Julia Annas. Oslo University. September, 2013.
“Välfärd och normativa skäl” (Welfare and Normative Reasons). Filosofiska föreningen. Linköping University. May, 2013.
”Personal Good and Normative Reasons”. Workshop on Agency and the Good. Uppsala University. April, 2013.
“Non-Eudaimonism, The Sufficiency of Virtue for Happiness, and Two Senses of the Highest Good in Descartes’s Ethics”. PSSA. Durban. January, 2013.
“On Being Virtuous but Bored with Virtuous Activity”. Conference on Virtue and Pleasure: Ancient and Modern Perspectives. Stockholm University. March, 2012.
“Does Eudaimonism Rest on a Mistake?” Stockholm June Workshop in Philosophy. Stockholm University. May, 2011.
“Does Eudaimonism Rest on a Mistake?” College of Lewis & Clarke. April, 2011.
“Descartes on Happiness and Wellbeing”. Workshop on Virtuous Agency: On the Development and Practice of the Virtues. Uppsala University. September, 2010.
“Virtue Ethics and Right Conduct: A Reconsideration”. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME). Boulder. August, 2010.
“Eudaimonist Virtue Ethics and Right Conduct: A Reassessment”. Oslo University. May, 2010.
“The Primacy of the Virtuous Reconsidered, or: Why Virtue Ethicists Should Love Particularism”. Action, Life and Happiness: A Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Uppsala University. May, 2009
“The Primacy of the Virtuous Reconsidered, or: Why Virtue Ethicists Should Love Particularism”. University of Arizona. March, 2009.
“Descartes on Happiness and the Pursuit of Virtue” (with Lilli Alanen). Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy 5 (OSEMP). Oxford University. October, 2008.
“Virtue, Advice, and Approval”. Oxford University, June 2008.
“A Design for Life – Descartes on Happiness and the Pursuit of Virtue” (with Lilli Alanen). Ethical Aspects of the Emotions. Oslo University. June, 2008.
“Virtue Ethics and Elitism”. University of the Witwatersrand. February, 2007.
“Virtue and Elitism”. International society for utilitarian studies (ISUS). Dartmouth College. August, 2005.
“Does Non-Cognitivism Rest on a Mistake?”. University of Arizona. 2004.
“A Particular Consequentialism: Why Moral Particularism and Consequentialism Need Not Conflict” (with Jonas Olson). International society for utilitarian studies (ISUS). Lisbon. April, 2003.
“Descartes on Virtue and the Good Life”. European Congress of Analytical Philosophy (ECAP). Lund University. June, 2002