Talks & Events

Current Talks, Events, Etc

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Recent Talks, Events, Etc.

  • 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