Talks
2022
April 30th. Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2022, New York, USA.
TBA. Keynote Talk: Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. European Epistemology Network Meeting, Glasgow, UK.
2021
March 8th. The Ethics and Epistemology of Meaning Production. 'Conceptual Engineering: Feasibility and Normativity' Workshop, Bielefeld/Bochum, Germany.
March 19th. Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Sheffield Departmental Seminar, University of Sheffield, UK.
April 9th. Proper Suspension. Book Symposium on Ernest Sosa's 'Epistemic Explanations', Pacific APA, Portland, USA.
April 5th. Conceptual Functions in Conceptual Engineering. ConceptLab Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong.
April 30th. Resistance to Evidence. Colloquium in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
May 4. Engineering Evidence. Arche Conceptual Engineering Seminar, University of St Andrews, UK.
May 27-28. Knowledge First Social Epistemology. University of Lisbon, Portugal.
July 23-24. Book Symposium on my ‘Sharing Knowledge: A Functionalist Account of Assertion’ (with C. Kelp). Function-First Epistemology Conference, Fordham University, New York.
TBA. A Priori Grounds for Testimonial Entitlement. Episteme Conference, Phuket, Thailand.
TBA. Engineering Voting. Political Philosophy and Methodology Working Group, University of Hong Kong.
August 2nd 2021. Expert Testimony and Defeat. University of Cologne, Germany.
November 12-14. Permissible Suspension. Epistemic Explanations: Investigations into the Epistemology of Ernest Sosa. University of Miami, USA.
2020
The Epistemic Normativity of Conjecture. The Philosophy Society, University of St Andrews, UK.
Expressive Power and the Ethics of Meaning Production. Social Metaphysics Seminar, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Group Belief and Responsibility Transmission. GROUNDS Seminar, University of Leeds, UK.
Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Epistemic Normativity Workshop, University of Leeds, UK.
The Duty to Believe. ALEF Workshop in Analytic Philosophy. Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.
Conceptual Functions in Conceptual Engineering. The Implementation Challenge for Conceptual Engineering Conference, University of St Andrews, UK.
2019
Evidence. Perception: Epistemology and Mind Workshop, University of Glasgow, UK.
Evidence and Warrant. Research Seminar, University of York, UK.
Publishing Well. MAP Workshop, University of Bochum, Germany.
Epistemic Norms, Function First. Mind Fellow Address at the The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association 2019, Durham University, UK.
Responsibility Transmission and Group Belief (with G. Pettigrove and C. Kelp). Group Responsibility Workshop, University of St Andrews, UK.
Warrant Transmission and Psychological Defeat. Closure and Transmission Workshop, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Conceptual Innovation. Keynote Talk at the 'Conceptual Engineering and Its Consequences in Society' BPPA Masterlclass, University of St Andrews, UK.
Knowledge First Social Epistemology. Bled Philosophical Conferences, Bled, Slovenia.
Knowledge First Social Epistemology. Keynote Talk at the Edinburgh Epistemology Graduate Conference.
Reasons, Basing and Warrant. Visiting Speaker Seminar Series, University of Reading.
Reasons, Basing and Warrant. Philosophy Club, University of St Andrews.
Knowledge First Social Epistemology. University of Southern Denmark.
2018
Evidence and Defeat. University of Helsinki, Finland.
Reasons, Basing and Warrant. The Glasgow Virtue Epistemology Conference, University of Glasgow, UK.
Disagreement, Knowledge First. Social Epistemology Workshop. University of Bristol.
Reply to Sliwa. 1st Social Epistemology Network Event, Oslo, Norway.
Knowledge First: Normative Credentials. Knowledge First: Themes from Tim Williamson, Cardiff University, UK.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Epistemology Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Knowledge First: Normative Credentials. University College London, UK.
Conceptual Engineering, Function-First (with C. Kelp). Visiting Speaker Seminar, University of Stirling, UK.
Conceptual Engineering, Function-First (with C. Kelp). ConceptLab Workshop, Zermatt, Switzerland.
Conceptual Engineering, Function-First (with C. Kelp). Glasgow-Hamburg Workshop, University of Glasgow, UK.
Epistemic Blame. University of Oxford, UK.
2017
Knowledge First: Normative Credentials. University of St Andrews, UK.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Cardiff University Philosophy Seminars, Cardiff, UK.
Testimonial Contractarianism. New Trends in Social Epistemology Seminar Series, University of Glasgow, UK.
Knowledge First: Normative Credentials. New Trends in Epistemology Workshop, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Epistemic Norms: Action and Practical Reasoning. Meeting of the European Normativity Network, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Assertion: The Constitutive Norms View. Assertion: Foundational Issues Workshop, University of Oslo, Norway.
Blame as Performance. Responding to Wrongdoing: Resentment, Blame, Forgiveness, Punishment Workshop, University of Oslo, Norway.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Social Epistemology Sumer School, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.
The Normative Myth of the Belief Assertion Parallel. The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association 2017, University of Edinburgh, UK.
The Explanation Proffering Norm of Moral Assertion. British Society for Ethical Theory conference 2017, University of Bristol, UK.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Keynote Talk. New Trends in Epistemology Graduate Conference, University of Pavia, Italy.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Bled Philosophical Conferences 2017, Slovenia.
Epistemic Virtues and Virtues with Epistemic Content (with C. Boult and C. Kelp). Bled Philosophical Conferences 2017, Slovenia.
Epistemic and Practical Matters (with C. Kelp). The 2nd Leuven-Southampton Epistemic Normativity Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Disagreement and Epistemic Improvement (with Fernando Broncano-Berrocal). Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy, Lund University, Sweden.
Disagreement and Epistemic Improvement (with Fernando Broncano-Berrocal). Seminar of the Research Unit for Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Cognition, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Testimonial Contractarianism. CSMN Colloquium, University of Oslo, Norway.
Disagreement Needn't Be Metalinguistic Negotiation. Conceptual Engineering Workshop, Zermatt, Switzerland.
2016
Testimonial Contractarianism. The 2nd Leuven Epistemology Conference, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Assertion, Context and the KK Strategy. 3rd PLM Masterclass with Timothy Williamson, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK.
Learning to See. 3rd Cologne-Leuven Epistemology Workshop, University of Cologne, Germany.
Knowledge First Functionalism. SIUCC XXV (Seminario Interuniversitario de Ciencia Cognitiva). Workshop with Timothy Williamson. University of Valencia, Spain.
Knowledge First Functionalism. European Epistemology Network Meeting, Paris, France.
Epistemic Norms: A Function First Account. 2nd Cologne-Leuven Epistemology Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Knowledge First Functionalism. Attitudes and Agency: Epistemology Workshop, University of Southampton, UK.
Knowledge First Functionalism. The 5th Belux Colloquium in Epistemology, KU Leuven, Belgium.
How to Be an Anti-Reductionist. Epistemic Dependence Workshop, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.
2015
Assertion, Contextualism and Epistemic Norms. Epistemic Norms Conference, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Greco on Testimony. The Leuven Virtue Epistemology Pre-Conference Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium.
No Epistemic Norm for Action. Postgraduate Session, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association. University of Warwick, UK.
Epistemic Norms and Norms with Epistemic Content. Bled Philosophical Conferences, Bled, Slovenia.
Epistemic Norms: The Commonality Assumption. Belux Colloquia in Epistemology, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Assertion, Knowledge and Rational Credibility: The Scoreboard. Belux Colloquia in Epistemology. KU Leuven, Belgium.
Function Talk in Epistemology. The Leuven – Bristol Philosophy Workshop, Bristol University, UK.
2014
Assertion, Contextualism and Epistemic Goals. Graz Young Epistemology and Philosophy of Logic Workshop, University of Graz, Austria.
Perceptual and Testimonial Justification. The Epistemology of Perception Pre-Conference Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium.
The Tertiary Value Problem’. European Epistemology Network Meeting, Madrid, Spain.
Assertion: A Normative Framework. Yonsei Philosophy Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
The Tertiary Value Problem and the Superiority of Knowledge (with Christoph Kelp). Lignan University, Hong Kong.
Good Asserters. Belux Colloquia in Epistemology: Workshop on Knowledge and Language. KU Leuven, Belgium.
April 30th. Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2022, New York, USA.
TBA. Keynote Talk: Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. European Epistemology Network Meeting, Glasgow, UK.
2021
March 8th. The Ethics and Epistemology of Meaning Production. 'Conceptual Engineering: Feasibility and Normativity' Workshop, Bielefeld/Bochum, Germany.
March 19th. Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Sheffield Departmental Seminar, University of Sheffield, UK.
April 9th. Proper Suspension. Book Symposium on Ernest Sosa's 'Epistemic Explanations', Pacific APA, Portland, USA.
April 5th. Conceptual Functions in Conceptual Engineering. ConceptLab Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong.
April 30th. Resistance to Evidence. Colloquium in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
May 4. Engineering Evidence. Arche Conceptual Engineering Seminar, University of St Andrews, UK.
May 27-28. Knowledge First Social Epistemology. University of Lisbon, Portugal.
July 23-24. Book Symposium on my ‘Sharing Knowledge: A Functionalist Account of Assertion’ (with C. Kelp). Function-First Epistemology Conference, Fordham University, New York.
TBA. A Priori Grounds for Testimonial Entitlement. Episteme Conference, Phuket, Thailand.
TBA. Engineering Voting. Political Philosophy and Methodology Working Group, University of Hong Kong.
August 2nd 2021. Expert Testimony and Defeat. University of Cologne, Germany.
November 12-14. Permissible Suspension. Epistemic Explanations: Investigations into the Epistemology of Ernest Sosa. University of Miami, USA.
2020
The Epistemic Normativity of Conjecture. The Philosophy Society, University of St Andrews, UK.
Expressive Power and the Ethics of Meaning Production. Social Metaphysics Seminar, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Group Belief and Responsibility Transmission. GROUNDS Seminar, University of Leeds, UK.
Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Epistemic Normativity Workshop, University of Leeds, UK.
The Duty to Believe. ALEF Workshop in Analytic Philosophy. Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.
Conceptual Functions in Conceptual Engineering. The Implementation Challenge for Conceptual Engineering Conference, University of St Andrews, UK.
2019
Evidence. Perception: Epistemology and Mind Workshop, University of Glasgow, UK.
Evidence and Warrant. Research Seminar, University of York, UK.
Publishing Well. MAP Workshop, University of Bochum, Germany.
Epistemic Norms, Function First. Mind Fellow Address at the The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association 2019, Durham University, UK.
Responsibility Transmission and Group Belief (with G. Pettigrove and C. Kelp). Group Responsibility Workshop, University of St Andrews, UK.
Warrant Transmission and Psychological Defeat. Closure and Transmission Workshop, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Conceptual Innovation. Keynote Talk at the 'Conceptual Engineering and Its Consequences in Society' BPPA Masterlclass, University of St Andrews, UK.
Knowledge First Social Epistemology. Bled Philosophical Conferences, Bled, Slovenia.
Knowledge First Social Epistemology. Keynote Talk at the Edinburgh Epistemology Graduate Conference.
Reasons, Basing and Warrant. Visiting Speaker Seminar Series, University of Reading.
Reasons, Basing and Warrant. Philosophy Club, University of St Andrews.
Knowledge First Social Epistemology. University of Southern Denmark.
2018
Evidence and Defeat. University of Helsinki, Finland.
Reasons, Basing and Warrant. The Glasgow Virtue Epistemology Conference, University of Glasgow, UK.
Disagreement, Knowledge First. Social Epistemology Workshop. University of Bristol.
Reply to Sliwa. 1st Social Epistemology Network Event, Oslo, Norway.
Knowledge First: Normative Credentials. Knowledge First: Themes from Tim Williamson, Cardiff University, UK.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Epistemology Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Knowledge First: Normative Credentials. University College London, UK.
Conceptual Engineering, Function-First (with C. Kelp). Visiting Speaker Seminar, University of Stirling, UK.
Conceptual Engineering, Function-First (with C. Kelp). ConceptLab Workshop, Zermatt, Switzerland.
Conceptual Engineering, Function-First (with C. Kelp). Glasgow-Hamburg Workshop, University of Glasgow, UK.
Epistemic Blame. University of Oxford, UK.
2017
Knowledge First: Normative Credentials. University of St Andrews, UK.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Cardiff University Philosophy Seminars, Cardiff, UK.
Testimonial Contractarianism. New Trends in Social Epistemology Seminar Series, University of Glasgow, UK.
Knowledge First: Normative Credentials. New Trends in Epistemology Workshop, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Epistemic Norms: Action and Practical Reasoning. Meeting of the European Normativity Network, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Assertion: The Constitutive Norms View. Assertion: Foundational Issues Workshop, University of Oslo, Norway.
Blame as Performance. Responding to Wrongdoing: Resentment, Blame, Forgiveness, Punishment Workshop, University of Oslo, Norway.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Social Epistemology Sumer School, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.
The Normative Myth of the Belief Assertion Parallel. The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association 2017, University of Edinburgh, UK.
The Explanation Proffering Norm of Moral Assertion. British Society for Ethical Theory conference 2017, University of Bristol, UK.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Keynote Talk. New Trends in Epistemology Graduate Conference, University of Pavia, Italy.
Testimonial Contractarianism. Bled Philosophical Conferences 2017, Slovenia.
Epistemic Virtues and Virtues with Epistemic Content (with C. Boult and C. Kelp). Bled Philosophical Conferences 2017, Slovenia.
Epistemic and Practical Matters (with C. Kelp). The 2nd Leuven-Southampton Epistemic Normativity Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Disagreement and Epistemic Improvement (with Fernando Broncano-Berrocal). Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy, Lund University, Sweden.
Disagreement and Epistemic Improvement (with Fernando Broncano-Berrocal). Seminar of the Research Unit for Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Cognition, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Testimonial Contractarianism. CSMN Colloquium, University of Oslo, Norway.
Disagreement Needn't Be Metalinguistic Negotiation. Conceptual Engineering Workshop, Zermatt, Switzerland.
2016
Testimonial Contractarianism. The 2nd Leuven Epistemology Conference, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Assertion, Context and the KK Strategy. 3rd PLM Masterclass with Timothy Williamson, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK.
Learning to See. 3rd Cologne-Leuven Epistemology Workshop, University of Cologne, Germany.
Knowledge First Functionalism. SIUCC XXV (Seminario Interuniversitario de Ciencia Cognitiva). Workshop with Timothy Williamson. University of Valencia, Spain.
Knowledge First Functionalism. European Epistemology Network Meeting, Paris, France.
Epistemic Norms: A Function First Account. 2nd Cologne-Leuven Epistemology Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Knowledge First Functionalism. Attitudes and Agency: Epistemology Workshop, University of Southampton, UK.
Knowledge First Functionalism. The 5th Belux Colloquium in Epistemology, KU Leuven, Belgium.
How to Be an Anti-Reductionist. Epistemic Dependence Workshop, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.
2015
Assertion, Contextualism and Epistemic Norms. Epistemic Norms Conference, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Greco on Testimony. The Leuven Virtue Epistemology Pre-Conference Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium.
No Epistemic Norm for Action. Postgraduate Session, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association. University of Warwick, UK.
Epistemic Norms and Norms with Epistemic Content. Bled Philosophical Conferences, Bled, Slovenia.
Epistemic Norms: The Commonality Assumption. Belux Colloquia in Epistemology, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Assertion, Knowledge and Rational Credibility: The Scoreboard. Belux Colloquia in Epistemology. KU Leuven, Belgium.
Function Talk in Epistemology. The Leuven – Bristol Philosophy Workshop, Bristol University, UK.
2014
Assertion, Contextualism and Epistemic Goals. Graz Young Epistemology and Philosophy of Logic Workshop, University of Graz, Austria.
Perceptual and Testimonial Justification. The Epistemology of Perception Pre-Conference Workshop, KU Leuven, Belgium.
The Tertiary Value Problem’. European Epistemology Network Meeting, Madrid, Spain.
Assertion: A Normative Framework. Yonsei Philosophy Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
The Tertiary Value Problem and the Superiority of Knowledge (with Christoph Kelp). Lignan University, Hong Kong.
Good Asserters. Belux Colloquia in Epistemology: Workshop on Knowledge and Language. KU Leuven, Belgium.
