Talks & Events
Current Talks, Events, Etc
“Street Art as Aesthetic Practice: Community, Conflict, Critique,” Keynote Address for Painting the Town: A Conference on the Philosophy of Street Art, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, October 2025
TBD, Oberlin College Philosophy Colloquium, February 2026
TBD, University of Indiana, Bloomington Philosophy Colloquium, April 2026
Recent Talks, Events, Etc.
January 2025: Author-Meets-Critics session on This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive, with James Ryerson (New York Times) and Jonathan Fine (Georgetown), American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, New York City
“Aesthetic Ranking,” University of Manitoba Philosophy Colloquium, March 2025
April 2025: Critic on the Author-Meets-Critics panel for Alva Noë’s book The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are, American Philosophical Association Western Division Meeting, San Francisco
October 2024: Critic on the Author-Meets-Critics panel for Sherri Irvin’s book Immaterial: Rules in Contemporary Art, American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Chicago
December 2024: Conference on Aesthetic Discourse, Umeå, Sweden
April 2024: THE VIBES ARE OFF, Public Debate on Aesthetic Discourse, with Zed Adams and Nat Hansen, New School for Social Research, NYC
May 2024: Beauty and Being Alive, Public Talk, MOME, Budapest, Hungary
January 2024: Aesthetic Acquaintance in Practice, Tulane University, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs
November 2023: Panel on Social Theories of Aesthetic Value, with Anthony Cross, Samantha Matherne, and C. Thi Nguyen, American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Washington DC
October 2023: TBD, UCLA Philosophy Department Colloquium
July 2023: Keynote Speaker, American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico
May 2023: Graduation Speaker, UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Graduation Ceremony
December 2022: Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing, University of Pennsylvania Philosophy Department Colloquium
November 2022: TBD, University of Southern California Philosophy Department Colloquium
November 2022: “The Practice of Aesthetic Valuing,” American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Portland OR
November 2022: “The Highest Good: The Very Idea(s),” with Clinton Tolley, UCSD’s Workshop on Agency, Values, Etc. (WAVE)
August 2022: “Aesthetic Value as the Highest Good,” with Clinton Tolley, American Society for Aesthetics Summer Virtual Program
May 2022: Comments on Richard Moran “Swann’s Medical Philosophy,” NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy — A Conference in Celebration of Béatrice Longuenesse
April 2022: “Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing”, University of Victoria Philosophy Colloquium
April 2022: Pacific APA Panel on Fitting Attitudes and Aesthetic Value, with Louise Hanson and Alex King
March 2022: “This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive,” UNC Chapel Hill, Parr Center for Ethics
February 2022: “Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing”, Kansas State Philosophy Colloquium
November 2021: “Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing” @ CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Department Colloquium
October 2021: “Aesthetic Value and the Practice of Aesthetic Valuing” @ University of Texas, Austin Philosophy Department Colloquium
February 2021: “Convergence, Community, and Force in Aesthetic Discourse,” New York Philosophy of Language Workshop
December 2020: “Artistic Style as the Expression of Ideals,” with Rob Hopkins, Aesthetics Permanent Seminar (Aresmur), Universidad de Murcia
November: Panel Discussion on Aesthetic Discourse, with Quill Kukla and Tim Sundell, American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting
June: Panel on Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters, with Dominic McIver Lopes and Bence Nanay, American Society for Aesthetics
May: “Invitation and Aesthetic Discourse,” UC Santa Cruz Colloquium
March 2020: “Murals in the Aesthetic State,” Auburn University
November 2019: Various Talks at Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas
October 2019: “Invitation and Aesthetic Communication,” American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ
September 2019: “Individualism and Communitarianism in Aesthetics: Reflections on Dominic McIver Lopes’s Being for Beauty: Aesthetic Agency and Value, British Society of Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Oxford University, UK
July 2019: “Invitation and Aesthetic Testimony: Preliminary Thoughts,” CAMP AESTHETICS, Utah
June 2019: Panel on aesthetics and morality with Vid Simoniti and Sarah Hegenbart at the Company of Ideas forum, Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, Hornby Island (Canada)
June 2019: PHILOsurfer Convergence, “Being Awesome, Getting Stoked,” with Aaron James, Del Mar, CA
May 2019: “Artistic Style as the Expression of Ideals,” with Robert Hopkins, Harvard-NYU Aesthetic Normativity Workshop, Cambridge
May 2019: “Schiller on Freedom and Aesthetic Value,” UCSD History of Philosophy Reading GroupMarch 2019: “Aesthetic Judgments as Invitations,” London Aesthetics Forum, London
April 2019: Author-Meets-Critics Session on my paper “Personal Ideals as Metaphors” (Journal of the American Philosophical Association), with comments from Cheshire Calhoun and Jeremy Fischer, Pacific APA Meeting, Vancouver
March 2019: Residency at the University of Leeds, Centre for Aesthetics
Philosophy and/of Cocktails, with Aaron Meskin and Louise Richardson, Below Stairs Bar, March 4
On Being Awesome book event at the Hyde Park Book Club, March 5
“Aesthetic Judgments as Invitations,” Centre for Aesthetics Seminar, University of Leeds, March 6
March 2019: Uppsala University, Sweden
“Aesthetic Judgments as Invitations,” Uppsala Research Seminar
“Invitation and Aesthetic Communication,” Uppsala Aesthetics Workshop
December 2018: “Schiller on Aesthetic Value and Human Freedom,” with Samantha Matherne, Harvard European Philosophy Workshop, Cambridge
November 2018: Southern California Student Conference in Aesthetics, Co-organized with Clinton Tolley, University of San Diego
November 2018: “Transformative Expression,” Yale Workshop on Experience and Transformation, New Haven