presentations
Here are Powerpoint/Keynote presentations (in pdf form) from talks that haven’t yet turned into written papers.
Consciousness
- Acquaintance, Concepts, and the Knowledge Argument (APA comments on Alex Byrne and Michael Tye, 2008)
- Attention First? Consciousness First? (wrap-up at Attention and Consciousness, 2009)
- Consciousness and the Collapse of the Wave Function (talk at Oslo and elsewhere, August 2013)
- The Critique of Pure Thought (wrap-up at Consciousness and Thought, 2008)
- The Hard Problem of Consciousness: 300 Years on (lecture in Moscow, June 2016)
- Hey Joe: Comments on Levine’s Purple Haze (APA book symposium commentary, 2004)
- HOT Strikes Back (comments on Hakwan Lau at Action Perception and Consciousness, 2009)
- Integrated Information Theory: Some Philosophical Issues (Philosophical Issues in IIT, November 2015)
- Introspection for Great Apes (wrap-up at Introspection and Consciousness, 2008)
- Is There Consciousness Outside Attention? (comments on Jesse Prinz, SPAWN 2006)
- R&R: The Relational and Representational Character of Experience (wrapup at Representationalism and Relationism, 2008)
- Reflections on Phenomenal Concepts (wrap-up talk at Rio conference on phenomenal concepts, January 2013)
- Reflexivity vs. Transparency in the Study of Consciousness (ANU workshop on Reflexive Theories of Consciousness, July 2016)
- The Varieties of Self-Awareness (wrap-up at Self and Consciousness, 2009)
Language and Content
- Concepts and the Scrutability of Truth (Concepts and the A Priori, Konstanz, 2004)
- Could Hesperus Have Failed to be Phosphorus? (Yablofest, ANU, July 2016)
- The Deeply Contingent A Priori (ANU, July 2003)
- Hyperintensionality and Impossible Worlds (introduction to Hyperintensionality, 2008)
- Kripke and Two-Dimensionalism (Kripke’s CUNY seminar on Naming and Necessity, May 2016)
- Kripke on Frege on Sense and Reference (CUNY Kripke conference, 2011)
- The Nonmodal Conception of Propositional Apriority (Aberdeen Apriority conference, 2012)
- Philosophical Arguments from Ordinary Language (St. Andrews conference on language and philosophy, June 2011)
- Primitive Concepts (ANU workshop on Concepts and Conceptual Analysis, 2005)
- Semantic Pluralism (Konstanz workshop on semantic pluralism, January 2015)
- Two-Dimensionalism and Inferentialism (Cologne conference on Conceptual Analysis and Two-Dimensionalism)
Metaphysics
- Contingentism in Metaphysics (wrap-up at Contingentism, 2008)
- Grounding and Analyticity (Birmingham conference on grounding and consciousness, June 2016)
- Grounding and Emergence (wrap-up at grounding and emergence conference, Glasgow June 2015)
- Lewis’s Aufbau, (Pacific APA, April 2011)
- Two Concepts of Metaphysical Possibility (AAP and elsewhere, July 2013)
- 65,536 Varieties of Physicalism (wrap-up at Formulating Physicalism, 2005)
Structuralism, Space, and Skepticism
- The Externalist and the Structuralist Responses to Skepticism (Bled conference on epistemology and philosophy of mind, 2015)
- Finding Space in a Nonspatial World, (talk at ANU and elsewhere, June 2014)
- Fundamentality Structuralism (AAP and elsewhere, July 2014)
- Perception and Skepticism: From Eden to the Matrix (Riga conference on Perception and Concepts, June 2013)
- Revelation, Humility, and the Structure of the World (ANU workshop on Revelation and Humility, 2005)
- Spatial Illusions: From Mirrors to Virtual Reality (talk at Tubingen and elsewhere, January 2015)
Miscellaneous
- From the Aufbau to the Canberra Plan (AAP Presidential Address, 2007)
- Moral Relativism and Conceptual Analysis (Sydney conference on Norms and Analysis, 2006)
- What can Experimental Philosophy Do? (talk at NEH Institute on Experimental Philosophy, 2009)
- X-Phi Meets A-Phi (wrap-up at Experimental Philosophy Meets Conceptual Analysis, 2007)