Upcoming

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• Credence Externalism (with C. Kelp). Agrippa Lecture Series, Social Conflicts and Epistemic Aims Conference, University of Seville (February 2026)

• Knowledge and AI. The Epistemology of AI Conference, University of Ioanina, Greece (April 2026)

• Statistical Evidence Is Not Evidence. Zegra Research Talk, University of Zurich. (May 2026)

• Purism in Reasoning. ERC Know How Conference, University of Seville (May 2026).

• Statistical Evidence Is Not Evidence. Knowledge, Understanding, and the Sciences Conference, Paris Sorbonne (June 2026).

• Epistemic Exclusion in Science Communication. Interdisciplinary Scientific Lecture Series, Academia Europaea Wroclaw Hub (June 2026).

• On Purism. Calliope Lectures in Trust and Information Research, Radboud University Nijmegen (July 2026).

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2025

• Keynote. Artificial Epistemic Agency. 6th Biannual Philosophy of AI Conference, Society for the Philosophy of AI

• On Purism. Oxford Metaphysics and Epistemology Research Group (November 2025).

• Communicating with AI: Turstworthiness vs. Explainability. Upsalla/Vienna Research Seminar (November 2025)

• Disinformation, Politically Motivated Reasoning, and Distrust in Expertise. Humanities Lectures, University of Glasgow 

• Keynote. Resistance to Evidence: Precis and Reply to Critics. Philosopher Meets Critics Book Symposium on my Resistance to Evidence (CUP 2024). Commentators: Juan Comesaña, Matt McGrath, Julia Staffel. Concept, University of Cologne, Germany.

• What is Information? Co-Symposiast in the 99th Joint Session of Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society (2025).

• Epistemic Exclusion in Science Communication. 10th Conference of the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza, Valencia, Spain.

• Information as Possible Knowledge. Trust and information Conference, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.

• A Puzzle About Trust, Scepticism, and Gullibility. Idea Centre, University of Leeds, UK.

• Knowledge and Conceptual Engineering (with Chris Kelp). Ibaraki University, Tokyo, Japan.

• Justification as the Proper Way to Knowledge (with Chris Kelp). Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

• Naturalised Epistemic Oughts. University of Oxford, UK.

• Justification Turns on Knowledge. University of Vienna, Austria.

 

2024

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• Obstacles to Learning. Stanford Graduate School of Education Series in Philosophy of Education, Stanford University, US.

• Disinformation and Evidence Resistance. UK Research & Innovation Future of the Internet Workshop: Combating Online Disinformation: Theory and Practice. UKRI, UK.

• The Epistemology and Semantics of Ignorance. Keynote Talk at the ‘Knowledge in Crisis’ Workshop, University of Vienna, Austria.

• The Epistemology and Semantics of Ignorance. Visiting Speaker Seminar, University of Bristol, UK.

• The Epistemology and Semantics of Ignorance. New Work in Knowledge First Epistemology, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.

• The Epistemology of Conceptual Engineering. Knowledge and Conceptual Engineering Workshop, University of Barcelona, Spain.

• The Epistemology and Semantics of Ignorance. World Congress of Philosophy 2024, Rome, Italy.

• Knowledge and Information. Keynote talk, British Society for the Theory of Knowledge 2024 Conference, Glasgow, UK

• Knowledge and Disinformation. Keynote Talk, Festival of Ideas, Madrid, Spain.

• Inquiry, Justified Belief, and Justified Credence. BIAP Workshop: Evidential Norms and the Sources of Normative Knowledge. University of Barcelona, Spain.

• AI: Trustworthiness and Explainability. Trust and AI Workshop, University of L’Aquilla, Italy.

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2023​

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• Knowledge and Disinformation. The Annual Centre Lecture of the University of California Irvine Centre for Knowledge, Technology, and Society.

• August 28-31. Keynote Speaker at the 5th Urbino Summer School in Epistemology: 4 lectures and 4 discussion groups on my work in knowledge-first social epistemology. University of Urbino, Italy.

• October 9-11. Fact-Checking and Disinformation. Academia Europaea Building Bridges 2023, University of Munchen, Germany.

• October 16-17. Keynote talk. Negligence, Recklessness, and Reasonable Doubt (with C. Kelp and L. Mace). Ernie Sosa Summer School, university of Seville, Spain.

• November 28. Knowledge and Disinformation. Knowledge Resistance Workshop, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 

• Knowledge and Disinformation.  TimFest, University of Oxford, UK.

• Functions in Conceptual Engineering. Glasgow-Barcelona 'Knowledge & Language' Workshop, Barcelona, Spain.

• Politically Motivated Reasoning and Evidence Resistance. Collective Decision-Making Research Seminar, University of Hamburg.

• Knowledge and Disinformation. Philosophy Visiting Speaker Seminar, University of Aberdeen, UK.

• Positive Epistemology. The Epistemology of #BelieveWomen Conference, University of St Andrews, UK.

• Sharing Knowledge: Precis and Reply to Critics, Book Symposium on my Sharing Knowledge, CUP, APA Pacific, San Francisco, USA.

• Knowledge and Disinformation. Arche Epistemology Seminar, University of St Andrews, UK.

• Obligations to Trust. Trust and Trustworthiness Workshop, University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Group Responsibility Transmission. The Role of Knowledge for Responsible Decision Making in Organisations. University of Hamburg, Germany.

• The Epistemology of Conceptual Engineering. Bled Philosophical Conferences, Bled, Slovenia.

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2022
 

• Inquiry, Permissible Credence, and Permissible Suspension. Epistemic Explanations: Investigations into the Epistemology of Ernest Sosa. University of Miami, USA

• Knowledge and Disinformation. Cogito-LangCog Workshop, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

• Knowledge and Disinformation. Episteme Conference, Negril, Jamaica.

• Knowledge and Justified Credence. The Power and Limits of Rational Reflection Conference, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 

• Knowledge and Justified Credence. British Society for Theory of Knowledge Meeting, Glasgow, UK 

• Engineering Voting. GAP 11, Berlin, Germany.

• Politically Motivated Reasoning, Evidence Resistance, and Cognitive Malfunction. Bad Beliefs, Conspiracy Theories, Testimony and Resistance to Evidence GAP11 Satellite Workshop, Berlin, Germany.

• Book Symposium on my 'Shifty Speech and Independent Thought', Concept, University of Cologne. Respondents: Peter J. Graham and Robin McKenna.

• Resistance to Evidence. Young Academy of Europe.

• Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2022, New York, USA.

• Justification as the Proper Route to Knowledge. APA Pacific BSTK Session, Vancouver, Canada.

• What is Trustworthiness?. Philosophy Research Seminar, Open University, UK.

• Epistemic Risks You Should Have Taken. The Social and Political Dimensions of Epistemic Risk Conference. University of Seville, Spain.

• Resistance to Evidence. Nicod Philosophy Colloquium, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris.

• Resistance to Evidence and the Normativity of Inquiry. Philosophy Colloquium, University of Warwick, UK. 

• What is Normative Defeat?. Jowett Society, University of Oxford, UK.

• Justification as the Proper Route to Knowledge. Keynote Talk, European Epistemology Network Meeting 2022, Glasgow, UK.

• Book Symposium on my ‘Sharing Knowledge: A Functionalist Account of Assertion’ (with C. Kelp). Function-First Epistemology Conference, Fordham University, New York, USA.  

• Permissible Suspension. Keynote Talk at the British Society for Theory of Knowledge 2021 meeting, Glasgow, UK.

• Talking to Social Robots. Communication with AI Workshop, University of Oslo, Germany.

• Politically Motivated Reasoning. Talk Series on Conspiracy Belief, University of Bochum, Germany. 

 

2021

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• Conceptual Functions in Conceptual Engineering. ConceptLab Research Seminar, University of Hong Kong.

• Resistance to Evidence. Colloquium in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Zurich, Switzerland. 

• Voting: A Constitutive Norms View. Political Philosophy and Methodology Working Group, University of Hong Kong.

• The Ethics of Meaning Production. Conceptual Engineering Workshop, Universities of Bielefeld & Bochum, Germany.

• Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Departmental Seminar, University of Sheffield, UK.

• Proper Suspension. Book Symposium on Ernest Sosa's 'Epistemic Explanations', Pacific APA, Portland, USA.

• Engineering Evidence. Arche Conceptual Engineering Seminar, University of St Andrews, UK.

• Knowledge First Social Epistemology. University of Lisbon, Portugal.

• A Puzzle for the Normativity of Inquiry. London School of Economics, UK.

• The Normativity of Politically Motivated Reasoning. King’s College London, UK. 

• A Puzzle for the Normativity of Inquiry. Visiting Speaker Seminar, University of Stirling, UK.

• Disagreement, Knowledge-First. Disagreement Beyond Ethics and Epistemology Workshop, University of Kent, UK.

• A Puzzle for the Normativity of Inquiry. Asian Journal of Philosophy Launch Conference, South Korea.

• The Epistemic Normativity of Conjecture. Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

• The Epistemology of Politically Motivated Reasoning. ‘Climate Justice, Risk, and Wellbeing’ Conference, COP26 UK Universities Innovation Showcase, Glasgow

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
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• 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.