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Susanna Claire Siegel Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Employment June 2017: Visiting Professor of Philosophy. École Normale Supérieure, Paris. January 2011-present: Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. January 2013-2016: Professor II, CSMN. Oslo, Norway. January 2014-2016: Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, University of Birmingham. 2011-2012: Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University. December 2005-December 2010: Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. July 2004-December 2005: Associate Professor of Philosophy and John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. July 1999-June 2004: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University.
Education September 1993 - May 1999: Cornell University, Ph.D. Philosophy, January 2000. Dissertation: Perception and Demonstrative Reference
Awards and Grants
• 2019 Centenary Fellow, Scots Philosophical Association, University of Glasgow • 2019-2020. Mind, Brain, and Behavior Faculty Award, for postdoc Fellow, Johannes Mahr. • 2015-2016. Director, NEH Summer Institute (with Nico Silins). Presupposition and Perception: Reasoning, Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics. Cornell University. • 2014-15. NSF Grant for Conference on Bayesian Theories of Perception and Epistemology. • 2011-2014. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Development Grant. The Senses. PI: Mohan Matthen, University Toronto. Partners: Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow), Alex Byrne (MIT), Barry Smith (London Institute of Philosophy). • 2012-14, Co-Investigator, Belief and Mental Agency (Josefa Toribio, PI, University of Barcelona) MCINN Grant from the government of Spain. • 2012 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow. Prize for The Contents of Visual Experience. • 2012-13. Mind, Brain and Behavior Faculty Award, for Postdoc Fellow Eric Mandelbaum. • 2010-11. Radcliffe Exploratory Workshop: Prediction, Goals, and Stereotypes in Perception. • 2010-2012. Mind, Brian and Behavior Faculty Award, for Postdoc Fellow (Sebastian Watzl). • 2007-2009. Australian Research Council Grant, with David Chalmers and Ned
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Block."High-level Contents of Consciousness".
Organizational Leadership • President, American Society for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 2019 • President, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2022 • Eastern APA Program Committee, 2018-2021 • Eastern APA Program Committee Chair, 2020-21 • Eastern APA Nominating Committee, 2019
Named Lectures 2008. The Burman Lectures, Umea, Sweden. 2012. The Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture, Oxford. 2013. Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture. University of Pittsburgh. 2015. President’s Invited Lecture, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. 2016. Mesthene Lecture, Rutgers University. 2016. Gustav Bergmann Lecture, University of Iowa. 2016. Gail Stine Memorial Lecture. Wayne State University. 2017. Visiting Professor of Philosophy, École Normale Supérieure. Paris. 2017. Philosophy Today Lecture, University of Alabama. 2018. Saul Kripke Lecture, CUNY Graduate Center. 2018. Royce Lectures, Brown University Department of Philosophy. 2019. Presidential Address, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. London, Ontario. 2020. Jack Smart Lecture, Australian National University - postponed 2020. David Lewis and Barry Taylor Memorial Lecture, Univ. of Melbourne -postponed 2020. Featured speaker at the SEFA Seminario Interuniversitario de Cienca Cognitiva, Barecelona -postponed to 2021 2022. Presidential Address, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. 2024. Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy
Public presentations, op-eds, and podcasts
• 2021: Reflections on September 11th, 2001. Los Angeles Review of Books. Reprinted in e-book When the towers fell, edited by Brad Evans. • 2020: Entrenched Perception. New Philosopher magazine. November 2020- January 2021. • 2020: Writ Large Podcast on Books we love to teach: Hobbes’ Leviathan. Episode 54. • 2020: Tent talks with Cody Turner. On schadenfreude and authoritarianism. Episode 63. • 2020: “What can philosophy contribute to the study of the mind?” in The
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Philosophers’ Magazine, Issue 88. • 2020. ‘Warrior mindset’ can get people killed. Tampa Bay Times, December 18. with Caroline Light. • 2020: Here’s how to hack hypocrisy. Tampa Bay Times Sunday Perspectives section, published on October 30, 2020. • 2020: Schadenfreude is the wrong reaction to the president’s covid-19. Tampa Bay Times, October 3, 2020. • 2020: Does relying on science strengthen authoritarianism or weaken it? Tampa Bay Times Sunday Perspectives section, published on May 29th. https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/05/29/does-relying-on-science-science- strengthen-authoritarianism-or-weaken-it-column/ • 2020: Why we revel in opponents adversity, Tampa Bay Times Sunday Perspectives section, August 2nd . Written with Kelsey Ichikawa. https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/07/31/why-we-revel-in-opponents- adversity-column/ • 2020: Citizens deserve a voice in deciding how best to ensure public safety. With Caroline Light. Worcester Telegram-Gazette. December 17, 2020. https://www.telegram.com/story/opinion/2020/12/17/opinion-citizens-deserve- voice-deciding-how-best-ensure-public-safety/3926970001/ • 2017: Philosophy in the Library, Brooklyn Public Library. Central Branch. • 2017: Talk at Harvard Bookstore on The Rationality of Perception. Ethics in the World series. Available for viewing at WGBH Forum: https://www.ysoutube.com/user/WGBHForum • 2017: Philosophy Today Lecture, University of Alabama
Interviews:
• 2020: Cómo será el mundo después de coronavirus: el poder de los científicos, el trabajo, el tiempo y la felicidad. Clarín newspaper. Argentina. https://www.clarin.com/mundo/mundo-despues-coronavirus-poder-cientificos- trabajo-tiempo-felicidad_0_2TcYraMLd.html • 2020: con Gustao Alegret, on the television show Cuestión de Poder, Bogotá, Colombia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=NvW5RvywQMU • 2020: New Philosopher Magazine, November 2020-January 2021. Entrenched Perception. • 2013: 3am magazine. “Phenomenology Never Goes out of Date”. http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/phenomenology-never-goes-out-of-date/ • 2014: PhilosopHer blog: politicalphilosopher.net/ • 2017: New Books in Philosophy (podcast) • 2017: Philosofuj magainze (in Polish) http://filozofuj.eu/filozofuj-2017-nr-2-14/
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Publications Monographs: The Contents of Visual Experience. New York: Oxford University Press. 2010. Winner of 2012 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow Prize. Translated into Spanish by Laura Pérez Leon and Álvaro Pelaez. UNAM Press. Siegel, S. Los contenidos de la experiencia visual. Traductores A. Peláez y L. Pérez. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM. 2020
The Rationality of Perception. Oxford University Press. 2017.
Articles
• The Phenomenal Public (in preparation) • Salience as stepping stones to inquiry. (in preparation) • Salience principles for democracy. Forthcoming in Salience. Ed by S. Archer. Routledge. • How can perceptual experiences explain uncertainty? Mind and Language 2020. • On The Rationality of Perception: Replies to Lord, Pautz, and Railton. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 101 (3): 764-771. Winter 2020. • What does philosophy contribute to the study of the mind? The Philosophers’ Magazine 88: 52-63. Winter 2020. • Skill and Expertise in Perception. In Routledge Handbook of Skill and Expertise. Eds. E. Fridlan and C. Pavese. Routledge. 2020. • “Probabilidad y Percepción” in an anthology in Spanish on predictive processing, ed. and trans. by C. Muñoz-Suarez. • “The Uneasy Heirs of Acquaintance”. A four-way exchange with Bill Brewer, Anil Gupta, and John McDowell on empirical reason. In Philosophical Issues, October 2019: 29(1), 348-65. • “Replies to Gupta, Brewer, and McDowell”. Philosophical Issues October 2019, 29(1): 403-10. • “The Problem of Culturally Normal Belief”. Forthcoming in Ideology: New Essays. Eds. R. Celikates, S. Haslagner, J. Stanley. Oxford University Press. • “Bias and Perception” in Knowledge, Justice and the Social Mind. Eds. E. Beeghly and A. Madva. 99-115. Routledge, 2020. • “Perception as Guessing vs. Perception as Knowing: Replies to Clark and Peacocke”. Symposium on The Rationality of Perception, with comments by Andy Clark and Christopher Peacocke. Res Philosophica 95(4), 761-784. 2018. • Attention and perceptual justification (with Silins), in “Blockheads!” essays in honor of Ned Block. MIT Press. 2019. • “The Structure of Episodic Memory”. Co-authored with Nico Silins. Part of symposium on Jonardon Ganeri’s paper “Mental time travel and attention”.
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Australasian Philosophical Review. Volume 1, Issue 4. 2018. • Symposium on The Rationality of Perception, with comments by Endre Begby, Harmen Ghijsen, and Katia Samoilova. Analysis Reviews, Vol 78, No. 3, 2018. • Symposium on The Rationality of Perception, with comments by Errol Lord, Adam Pautz, Peter Railton. Forthcoming, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. • “The Problem of Perceptual Hijacking”. Symposium in Analytic Philosophy, with commentaries by Ori Beck, Mazviita Chirimuuta, Raja Rosenhagen, Declan Smithies, Alison Springle, and replies. • “Inference without Reckoning”. In M. Balcerak-Jackson and B. Balcerak-Jackson, eds. Reasoning: Essays in Theoretical and Practical Thinking. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming, 2018. • “Rich or Thin?” Debate with Alex Byrne about the contents of perception. In Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Perception. Ed. B. Nanay. Routledge. 2017. • “How is Wishful Seeing like Wishful Thinking?” In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 2016. • “Epistemic Charge” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 2015. • “Epistemic Evaluability and Perceptual Farce” In J. Zeimbekis and A. Raftopoulos. New Essays in Cognitive Penetration. Oxford University Press. 2015. • “Cognitive Penetrability: Modularity, Epistemology, and Ethics” with Zoe Jenkin. Review of Psychology and Philosophy. 2015. • “Affordances and the Content of Perception”. In Does Perception Have Content? Ed. B. Brogaard. Oxford University Press. 2015. • “Consciousness, Attention, and Perceptual Justification” (with Nicholas Silins), in Contemporary Perspectives on Scepticism and Perceptual Justification, eds. D. Dodd and E. Zardini, Oxford University Press. 2014. • “Can Selection Effects on Experience Influence its Rational Role?" In Oxford Studies in Epistemology, vol. 4. Edited by T. Gendler. 2013. • “The Epistemic Impact of Etiology of Experience. Symposium in Philosophical Studies 162: 697-722. With comments by Michael Huemer, Matthew McGrath, and Richard Fumerton. 2013. • “Are there Edenic Grounds of Perceptual Intentionality?” Analysis Reviews 2013. • “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification” 2012 Nous. Translated into Chinese by Waguter Wang and Yang Qu. • Symposium on The Contents of Visual Experience with Précis and replies to symposiasts: John Campbell, Jesse Prinz, Charles Travis. Philosophical Studies 2013. • “The Visual Experience of Causation” Philosophical Quarterly. 2009. Reprinted in The Norton Introduction to Philosophy. Eds. A. Byrne, J. Cohen, G. Rosen, S. Schiffrin. • “The Epistemic Conception of Hallucination” in Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge (eds. A. Haddock and F. Macpherson). Oxford University Press, 2008. • “How can we discover the contents of experience?” Southern Journal of Philosophy 2007.
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• “Do we see more than we can access?” with Alex Byrne and David Hilbert. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2007. • “Subject and Object in the Contents of Visual Experience.” The Philosophical Review, vol. 115 no. 3 (July 2006), pp. 355-388. • “How does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object-seeing?” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2006. • “Direct Realism and Perceptual Consciousness” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 2006. • “Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives” with Michael Glanzberg. Nous. 2006. • “Which Properties are represented in perception?” Perceptual Experience. Eds. T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne. Oxford. 2006. Reprinted in The Philosophy of Mind. Ed. D. Chalmers, second edition, 2018. • “The Phenomenology of Efficacy” Philosophical Topics. 2005. • “Indiscriminability and the Phenomenal” Philosophical Studies. 2004. • “The Role of Perception in Demonstrative Reference” Philosophers’ Imprint. 2002.
Entries
• Entry on The Contents of Perception, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. First published 2005, Substantive updates in 2010 and 2016. • “The Epistemology of Perception” (with Nicholas Silins), in Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception (ed. M. Matthen). 2013. • “Los Problemas de la Perception”, con Laura Perez. por aparecer en la Enciclopedia de la filosofia de la mente, publicada por la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica. Eds. M. Artiga y M. Jorba. • Skill and Expertise in Perception, in Routledge Handbook of Skill and Expertise. Eds. C. Pavese and E. Fridland. 2020.
Reviews
• A Theory of Sentience by Austen Clark. Philosophical Review 111(1): 135. (2002). • Reference and Consciousness by John Campbell. Philosophical Review 113(3): 427- 31. (2004). • Visual Phenomenology by Michael Madary. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. (2016).
Critical discussions of my work • Symposia on The Rationality of Perception o Analysis Reviews (2018). Symposiasts: Endre Begby, Harmen Ghijsen, Katia Samoilova. o Res Philosophica. (2019) Symposiasts: Andy Clark, Christopher Peacocke.
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o Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2020). Symposiasts: Errol Lord, Adam Pautz, Peter Railton. • Reviews of The Rationality of Perception o Alan Millar, Mind (2018). o Bill Brewer, Journal of Philosophy (2018). o Bence Nanay, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2018) o Zachary Irving, Ratio (2019). o Louise Richardson, European Journal of Philosophy (2018). o Dustin Stokes, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2018). o Casey O’Callaghan, Philosophical Review (2018) • Session on The Rationality of Perception, o 2018 Pacific APA. Commentators: Andy Clark, Sally Haslanger, Christopher Peacocke. o 2018 Eastern APA. Commentators: Jennifer Nagel, Adam Pautz, Peter Railton. • Workshop on the Perception and Reasoning in the work of Susanna Siegel, University of Tübingen, April 2015. • Critical notice on The Contents of Visual Experience. “Presentation and Content”. John Bengson, Nous. 2014. • Book Symposium on The Contents of Visual Experience. Critics: John Campbell, Jesse Prinz, Charles Travis. Philosophical Studies. 2013. • Symposium on “The Epistemic Impact of the Etiology of Experience” Philosophical Studies. Contributions from Richard Fumerton, Michael Huemer, Matt McGrath. 2013. • Author meets Critics session on The Contents of Visual Experience. Critics: Susanna Schellenberg, Kathrin Glüer, John Bengson. Central APA. February 2012. • Author meets Critics session on The Contents of Visual Experience. Critics: Ned Block, John Campbell, Fred Dretske. Pacific APA. March 2012. • Reading groups on manuscript of The Rationality of Perception at University of Michigan, University of California/San Diego, University of Wisconsin/Madison.
Editing and Refereeing Editor, Nous. Philosophy of Mind Editor, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Philosophy of perception editor, Philpapers.org Guest Editor of Special Issue of Inquiry on Belief, 2014. Guest Editor with Zoe Jenkin of Special Issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology on Cognitive Penetrability. 2015. Philosophy of Mind Editor of Thought, 2012-2014. Editorial Board, Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
Professional Service – Mentoring
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•Placement officer, Harvard Philosophy •UCSD 2022 Summer Program for Women in Philosophy – 4-session mini-course in the Philosophy of Journalism •PIKSI-Boston, 2015, presenter •Mentor, Summer mentoring project for women in philosophy, U-Mass-Amherst
Professional Service – Conferences and Workshops •Organizer: Workshop on Salience (on line), Harvard University. May 2020. •Executive Committee, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 2019-2020 •Program co-chair, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2022. •Program co-chair, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2020. •Organizer, with Samantha Matherne. Workshop on Aesthetic Normativity. Harvard, 2019. •Organizer, with Adriana Renero. Workshop on Introspection and Self-knowledge. Universidad Panamericana. Mexico, DF. 2017. •Organizer, with Anya Farennikova. Workshop on Probability and Perception. Berkeley, 2017. •Director. with Nico Silins. NEH Summer Institute on Presupposition and Perception. Held at Cornell. 2016. •Organizer. Workshop on Accountability for Attitudes. Harvard, 2016. •Organizer, with Michael Brownstein. Workshop. Can Psychology Improve Policing? Harvard 2016. Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics. •Organizer. Workshop on Bayesian theories of perception and epistemology. Funded by NSF Grant. Held at Cornell University, July 2015. •Organizer. Workshop on Norms of Inquiry. with Jane Friedman. NYU. 2015. •Organizer. Workshop on Affect and Politics. Speakers: Amia Srinivasan, Kristie Dotson, Eric Mandelbaum, Susanna Siegel. Cornell University Society for the Humanities. February 2015. •Organizer. Workshops for Philosophy in Spanish/Taller de Filosofía en Español. 2016: Departamento de Filosofía, Harvard 2015: Departamento de Filosofía, Harvard 2014: Diálogo Sobre Filosofía en Español. Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos •Organizer. Workshop on Bayesian theories of Perception. Cornell University. August 2015. •Organizer. Annual Workshop on Perception. A one-day workshop for young philosophers of mind. Sponsored by Provostial Fund for Arts and Sciences. 2012: Belief (Jane Friedman, Maria Aarnio, Lisa Bortolotti 2010: Time and the Unity of Consciousness (Matt Nudds, Adam Pautz, Philippe Chuard, Ian Philips) 2009: Perception Beyond Vision (Mark Green, Casey O'Callaghan,Frederique de Vignemont, Matt Fulkerson) 2008: Consciousness and Thought (Imogen Dickie, Declan Smithies, Matt
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Soteriou, Cheryl Chen) 2007: Proprioception and Bodily Awareness (Barbara Montero, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Jose Luis Bermudez) 2006: Perception: Fundamental Questions (Maja Spener, Chris Mole, Austen Clark)
•Organizer. Workshop on the Epistemology of Cognitive Penetrability. 2013 Harvard University. •Organizer. Mind and Attention in Indian Philosophy. with Parimal Patil and Sebastian Watzl. 2013, Harvard University. •Organizer. Imperatival Aspects of Perception. with Sebastian Watzl. Sponsored by CSMN. 2013, Oslo. •Organizer. Workshop on Cognitive Penetration. with Nico Silins. •Organizer. Philosophical Progress, with Daniel Stoljar, sponsored by the Harvard- Australia Research Grant. September 2011, Harvard University. •Organizer. Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness, with David Bennett and the Network for Sensory Research. November 2011, Brown University. •Organizer. Workshop on Cognitive Penetration. with Nico Silins. Cornell University, September 2010. •Organizer. Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar. with Moshe Bar. Harvard University, Spring 2011. •Organizer. Annual Symposia for Juniors in Mind, Brain and Behavior. 2011: Social Vision (Keith Payne, Lisa Barrett, Brian Scholl) 2010: Concepts and Conceptualization (Susan Carey, Bernhard Nickel, Larry Barsalou) 2018: Sex, Gender and the Brain (Alex Byrne, Carole Hoven, Sarah Richardson). 2019: Hatred and Aggression. (Mina Cikara, Sabina Beretta, Jessica Stern) 2020: How experience shapes the brain (Laurel Gabard-Durnam, Sara Lazar, Kate McLaughlin)
Graduate advisees Lidal Dror, Harvard 2021. Heather Spradley, Epistemic bubbles. Harvard, 2022. Paul Marcucilli, Epistemic normativity. Harvard, 2019. Zoe Jenkin, Reasons and Percepts. Harvard. 2019. Olivia Bailey, The Ethics and Epistemology of Empathy. Harvard, 2018. Katherine Piatti, Cognitive Penetrability and High-level content. University of Texas, 2017. Jessie Munton, Believing our eyes: perception, prediction, and justification. Yale, 2017. Emily McWilliams, Belief and Ameliorative Epistemology. Harvard, 2016. Lu Teng, Cognitive Penetrability and the Epistemological Significance of Etiology. Cornell, 2016.
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Shantia Rahimian, Phenomenal Concepts, Transparency, and the mind-body problem. Harvard, 2016. Adriana Renero, The Nature of Introspection. CUNY 2016. Katia Samoilova, Pluralism about introspection. Brown, 2014. Avery Archer, The Rational Significance of Desire. Columbia 2013. Heather Logue, Perceptual experience: relations and representations. MIT, 2013. Kranti Saran, Bodily Sensations: Nature, Location, and Extent. Harvard. 2011. Gabrielle Jackson, Gilbert Ryle & Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Adverbialist Theory of Mind. Harvard, 2010. Kritika Yegnashankaran, Reasoning as Action. Harvard, 2009. Clare Batty, What’s that smell?. MIT, 2008. Jacob Beck, The Structure of Thought. Harvard, 2008. Anthony Corsentino, Vehicles of Meaning: Essays on Semantic Context-Dependence in Speech & Thought. Harvard, 2007.
Presentations
October 2021. The Phenomenal Public. University of Sheffield.
September 2021. The Phenomenal Public. University of Sao Paolo. Brazil
September 2021. The Phenomenal Public. University of Nevada, Reno.
July 2021. Mini-course on the philosophy of journalism, UCSD summer program for undergraduate women in philosophy.
June 2021, The Phenomenal Public. New work in the philosophy of perception, Turin.
May 2021, The Phenomenal Public. Global Consciousness workshop.
May 2021, How can experiences explain uncertainty? Bar-ilan University, Israel
January 2021, Faith and Narrative: On Sheridan Hough’s book Kierkegaard’s Dancing Tax Collector. Eastern APA.
June 2020, Pandemic and political vulnerability. Freie Universität Berline.
May 2020, Pandemic and the uptake of science. Laura Perez Media Culture class, University of Taiwan
January 2020, Are there norms of attention? Oxford Philosophy of Mind seminar.
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January 2020, How can perceptual experiences reflect uncertainty? University of Stirling.
January 2020, How can perceptual experiences reflect uncertainty? University of Glasgow.
January 2020, Are there norms of attention? Perception and Epistemology. University of Glasgow.
December 2019, Are there norms of attention? Constructing Social Hierarchies Workshop, MIT
October 2019, Norms of attention and conditioned associations. Norms of attention workshop, University of Virginia.
September 2019, Probability and Perception. Mind and Language Lecture, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Athens, Greece.
August 2019, A formalism in search of a phenomenon. Workshop on perceptual confidence, Cambridge, UK.
June 2019, Perception and Probability. Presidential Address, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 23. University of Western Ontario.
June 2019, Probability and the interfaces of experiences. Predictive Vision workshop. York University, Toronto.
May 2019. Comments on Cristina Alberini, workshop on psychoanalysis and memory, NYU.
March 2019, Does perception come in degrees? Georgia State University, Cognitive Science series.
March 2019, Does perception come in degrees? Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
February 2019, Proto-confidences and the interface between experience and credence. University of Miami.
December 2018, Proto-confidences and the interface between experience and credence. University of Helsinki, Finland.
December 2018, Proto-confidences and the interface between experience and credence. Workshop on Cognitive Penetrability, University of Torino. Turin Italy.
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October 2018. Does the science of perception tell us whether perception comes in degrees? Cognition, Brian, and Behavior talk series, Harvard Psychology Dept.
October 2018. Does Perception Come in Degrees? Epistemology, Phenomenology, Perception Science. The Josiah Royce Lectures (set of three lectures). Brown University.
September 2018. Does the science of perception tell us whether perception comes in degrees? Carelton University Cognitive Science Program, Distinguished Lecturer.
June 2018. Comments on Paul Boghossian, “Should we be objectivists about aesthetic value?” Aesthetics Reborn. Workshop at NYU/La Pietra.
April 2018. Perceptual Uncertainty and Perceptual Confidence. Saul Kripke Lecture, CUNY Graduate Center.
March 2018. Pacific APA Book Symposium on The Rationality of Perception. Commentators: Andy Clark, Sally Haslanger, Christopher Peacocke. San Diego.
March 2018. Inference without reckoning. (with comments by Peter Railton). UNC Workshop on Inference.
February 2018. Are perceptual experiences gradable? Simon Fraser University.
December 2017. “The Rationality of Perception”. Philosophy in the Library. Brooklyn Public Library. Central Branch. Brooklyn, NY.
December 2017. “The Structure of Episodic Memory”. Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy Seminar, Columbia University.
November 2017. “The Rationality of Perception.” Philosophy Today Public Lecture. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
November 2017. “Are experiences gradable?.”.University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
November 2017. “¿Son Experiencias Perceptivas Gradables?”. Univeridad Panamericana. Mexico City.
October 2017. Emotion and political authority: José Martí and political imagination in Cuba. With Lisa Rivera. Harvard Alumni Association. Havana, Cuba.
June 2017. “Perceptual Confidence and Perceptual Inference”. Workshop on representation, University of Turin, Italy.
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June 2017. Workshop on The Rationality of Perception. University of Liege, Belgium.
June 2017. Perceptual Inference – 3 lectures at Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. “Perceptual Confidence and Perceptual Inference”, “Epistemology of perceptual inference”, “Inference without reckoning”
June 2017. Inferences to perception. Bochum workshop on Perception and Justified Belief. Bochum, Germany.
May 2017. Inferences to perception. Workshop in honor of the end of the Center for the Study of Mind and Nature (CSMN). Oslo.
April 2017. The Rationality of Perception. Harvard Bookstore. Ethics in the World speaker series.
April 2017. Inference without Reckoning. NYU Mind and Language seminar.
April 2017. The Rationality of Perception. University of Pennsylvania.
April 2017. The Rationality of Perception. University of Texas/Arlington.
March 2017. Probability and Perception. University of California, Berkeley, Workshop on Probability and Perception.
March 2017. Norms of Attention. University of Southern California.
December 2016. Norms of Attention. Claremont McKenna Philosophy Colloquium.
November 2016. The Rationality of Perception. Cal State Chico.
October 2016. The Problem of Perceptual Hijacking. Pittsburgh Perception Conference. With comments from Matt Soteriou, Mazviita Chirimuuta and Imogen Dickie.
October 2016. Salience Norms. UC Berkeley Philosophy Colloquium.
October 2016. The Problem of Culturally Normal Belief. UC Berkeley Law and Political Theory Workshop.
July 2016. The Mind of the World. Directors’ presentation, NEH Summer Institute on Presupposition and Perception.
July 2016. The Epistemology of Top-Down Effects on Perception, NEH Summer Institute on Presupposition and Perception.
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June 2016. Helpless Belief. Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Santiago, Chile.
June 2016. Mini-Seminar on The Rationality of Perception. Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Santiago, Chile
April 2016. Can Psychology Improve Policing? Overview. Harvard University.
April 2016. Social Normality. Gustav Bergman lecture, University of Iowa.
April 2016. Epistemic Charge. University of Iowa
April 2016. Epistemic Charge. University of Nebraska, Lincoln
March 2016. Inference without Reckoning. Gail Stine Memorial Lecture, Wayne State University.
March 2016. Epistemic Charge. Mesthene Lecture, Rutgers University.
February 2016. Inference without Reckoning. UCSD Winter Philosophy of Perception Workshop.
January 2016. The Epistemology of Social Normality (with comments by Sally Haslanger). Yale Ideology Conference.
January 2016. Salience Norms. Inaugural Workshop on Thought and Sense. Oslo, CSMN.
December 2015. Perception and Social Forms of Consciousness. UW-Madison.
December 2015. Comments on John Morrison’s “Perceptual Confidence”. Workshop on Bayesian theories of Perception. NYU Center for Consciousness.
November 2015. Epistemic Charge. Southampton.
November 2015. Salience Norms. Jowett Society, Oxford.
November 2015. Salience Norms. Cambridge Moral Sciences Club.
October 2015. Epistemic Charge. Keynote Address, Midwest Epistemology Workshop. University of Missouri.
September 2015. Salience Norms. SWIP/NY. NYU.
July 2015. Comments on Sarah Moss, "A Defense of Probabilistic Knowledge". Conference on Bayesianism about perception, Cornell University.
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June 2015. Epistemic Charge. Aristotelian Society. London.
April 2015. Evaluative Perception. Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Contest. Keynote Address.
April 2015. Evaluative Perception. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. President's Invited Lecture.
March 2015. Philosophy and Poetry: Robert Frost, Metaphor, and the Modularity of Mind. With Marissa Grunes. Arts at the Barker Center Cafe. Harvard University.
March 2015. Evaluative Perception. Workshop on Perception and Reasoning with Susanna Siegel. Keynote lecture. University of Tübingen.
March 2015. Bayesian Theories of Perception: Questions and Problems. Workshop on Cognitive Penetration and Predictive Coding. Keynote lecture. Ruhr Universitat Bochum
March 2015. Salience Norms and Selection Effects. University of Maryland, College Park.
March 2015. Comentario sobre Sofia Ortiz, La Imaginación y Experiencias Transformativas. Harvard University. 2o Taller Filosofia en Español.
February 2015. Epistemic Evaluability and Perceptual Farce. Cornell Society of the Humanities, Fellows' Lunch.
February 2015. Affordances and the Contents of Perception. Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar, Cornell Society for the Humanities.
February 2015. Salience Norms and Selection Effects. Cornell Society for the Humanities.
February 2015. Salience Norms (with Sebastian Watzl). NYU Workshop on Norms of Inquiry.
January 2015. Affordances and the Contents of Perception. Sanders Seminar with Laurie Paul, UNC.
January 2015. The Rationality of Perception. Sociedad Filosófica Ibero-Americana. Huatulco, Oaxaca.
November 2014. Affordances and the Contents of Perception. University of Montreal.
October 2014. The Role of the Humanities in the Study of the Mind. Public discussion with Steven Pinker. Harvard.
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October 2014. Inference and Selection Effects. NYU/Cuny grad seminar.
September 2014. Inference and Selection Effects. UMass/Amherst.
September 2014. Perceptual Inference and the Rationality of Perception. Sanders Seminar, University of Texas/Austin.
September 2014. Inferencia y Efectos de Seleción. UNAM, México DF.
June 2014. Perceptual Inference. Keynote address at 4th Annual Edinburgh Graduate Conference in Epistemology.
June 2014. Perceptual Inference. Conference: Perspectives on Inference. Center for the Study of Mind and Nature, Oslo.
April 2014. Introduccion/Introduction. Dialogo Sobre Filosofia en Español.
February 2014. The Rational Evaluability of Perceptual Experience. Notre Dame.
February 2014. The Rational Evaluability of Perceptual Experience. University of Edinburgh.
February 2014. The Rational Evaluability of Perceptual Experience. University of Birmingham.
February 2014. ¿Cuándo es que la pericia puede influir racionalmente en la experiencia perceptual? UAM Cuajimalpa, Mexico DF.
February 2014. Can Perceptual Experience be Rationally Influenced by Expertise? College of Charleston.
February 2014. Vice Epistemology. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Charleston.
January 2014. How is wishful seeing like wishful thinking? Arizona Ontology Conference.
November 2013. Affordances and the Contents of Perception. Princeton University.
October 2013. Affordances and the Contents of Perception. University of Copenhagen.
October 2013. The Rational Enrichment of Experience. University of Pittsburgh. Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture.
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October 2013. Wishful Belief and the Basing Relation. Indiana University.
September 2013. The Rational Enrichment of Experience. Boston University.
September 2013. Comments on Nilanjan Das. Nyaya on Cognitive Penetrability. Mind and Attention in Indian Philosophy. Harvard.
September 2013. Affordances and the Contents of Perception. Workshop on Evaluative Perception.University of Glasgow.
August 2013. Introduction and Overview. Workshop on Imperatival Aspects of Perception. University of Oslo.
August 2013. Affordances and the Contents of Perception. Workshop on Imperatival Aspects of Perception. University of Oslo.
August 2013. Some Questions about the Unity of Consciousness. University of Bergen. Norway.
August 2013. Comments on Nishi Shah's "Why We Reason the Way we Do". SPAWN. Syracuse.
June 2013. Belief and the Basing Relation. Institut Jean Nicod.
June 2013. Belief and the Basing Relation. Workshop on Belief. University Autónoma de Barcelona.
May 2013. Discussant on The Contents of Visual Experience Seminar at UCSD.
May 2013. Roundtable Discussant, Workshop on Temporal Experience. Network for Sensory Research. University of Toronto.
May 2013. How is Wishful Seeing Like Wishful Thinking? Rutgers Epistemology Conference.
April 2013. Cognitive Penetration and Perceptual Justification. CUNY Reading Group on cognitive penetrability
April 2013. Affordancias y Contendio . UAM, Mexico DF.
April 2013. Los Contenidos de la Experiencia Visual. UAM, Mexico DF.
April 2013. Wishful Seeing and Wishful Thinking. Cornell University, guest presentation in Nico Silins's Epistemology course.
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February 2013. How is Wishful Seeing like Wishful Thinking? Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Austin.
February 2013. Comments on Matt McGrath, "A Role for Looks", Invited Symposium, Central Division APA.
January 2013. Can Selection Effects Influence the Rational Role of Experience? Stanford University.
December 2012. Modularism and Top-down effects on Perception. Workshop on Modularism, NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness.
November 2012. Affordances and the Content of Perception. University of Geneva.
November 2012. The Phenomenology of Efficacy. Fribourg University.
November 2012. Can Selection Effects Influence the Rational Role of Experience? Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture, Oxford University.
November 2012. Can Selection Effects Influence the Rational Role of Experience? Causes of Belief workshop, St. Andrews.
October 2012. Can Selection Effects Influence the Rational Role of Experience? Colloquium. NYU.
September 2012 Comments on Sebastian Watzl, How Attention Structures Appearances. Antwerp Conference on Attention.
May 2012 The Epistemology of Selection Effects. Buddhism and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind. NEH Summer Institute, College of Charleston.
May 2012 Affordances and the Content of Perception. Buddhism and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind. NEH Summer Institute, College of Charleston.
May 2012 Comment on Celia Hayes. Workshop on Perceptual Learning, Network for Sensory Research, University of Toronto.
May 2012 The Epistemology of Selection Effects. Wolfe Visual Attention Lab, Harvard Medical School.
April 2012 Replies to Block, Campbell and Dretske. Pacific APA Author Meets Critics, The Contents of Visual Experience.
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March 2012 The epistemology of selection effects. Union College.
February 2012 Central APA Author Meets Critics, The Contents of Visual Experience. Replies to Schellenberg, Glüer and Bengson.
December 2011 Stereotypes and Perceptual Belief. Psycho-ontology Conference. Shalem Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
December 2011 Stereotypes and Perceptual Belief. Workshop on Implicit Bias. Sheffield University.
October 2011 Affordances and the Contents of Perception. Symposium on Phenomenality and Intentionality in honor of Charles Siewert, Rice University.
October 2011 The Epistemic Significance of top-down effects on perception. Seminar at Yale University.
October 2011 The Epistemic Significance of top-down effects on perception. Seminar at Johns Hopkins University.
October 2011 Affordances and the Contents of Perception. The Johns Hopkins University.
June 2011 Attention and Perceptual Justification. Columbia Perception Workshop. Columbia University.
May 2011 Discussant, Rutgers Epistemology Conference, Rutgers University.
April 2011 Attention and Perceptual Justification. Haverford College.
March 2011 Comments on Kurt Gray, The dual structure of morality. Metro Experimental Philosophy Research Group, NYU.
March 2011 Solicitaciónes y los Contentos de la Experiencia Perceptual. Universidad Nacionál de Colombia, Bogotá.
March 2011 The Epistemic Impact of Reasoning in the Basement. Seminar on Epistemology, Cornell University.
February 2011 Attention and Perceptual Justification. University of Miami.
February 2011 The Epistemic Impact of Reasoning in the Basement. University of Miami.
February 2011The Epistemic Impact of Reasoning in the Basement. Brandeis University.
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February 2011Introduction: The perceptual impact of racial stereotypes. Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar. Radcliffe Institute.
February 2011Comments on Eric Mandelbaum’s “A Psychofunctionalist Theory of Belief”. Workshop on Belief and its Cousins. Harvard University.
January 2011 The Epistemic Impact of Reasoning on the Basement. LOGOS. Barcelona, Spain
December 2010 Commentary on talks Christopher Hill and Brain McLaughlin, Symposium on Appearance Properties. Eastern Division APA.
October 2010 The Epistemic Impact of Reasoning in the Basement. 44th Chapel Hill Colloquium. Comment from Jonathan Weisberg, Toronto.
August 2010 The Epistemic Impact of Reasoning in the Basement. ANU April 2010 Perceptual Downgrades. Workshop on Evidence. ARCHE/St Andrews.
April 2010 Perceptual Downgrades. Phenomenal Qualities Workshop. University of London, Institute of Philosophy.
April 2010 The significance of cognitive penetration. Formal Epistemology Festival, University of Toronto.
April 2010 The significance of cognitive penetration. New Directions in Philosophy of Mind. Barnard College, NYC.
March 2010 What are the epistemological consequences of cognitive penetration?. University of Texas, Austin.
March 2010 Cognitive Penetrators as Undercutters. NYU Mind and Language Seminar.
February 2010 Cognitive Penetrators as Undercutters. University of Western Ontario.
February 2010 Comments on Matthew Conduct's "Naive Realism without Disjunctivism", Online Consciousness Conference.
December 2009 Comments on Robert Briscoe's "My Point of View", Eastern Division APA
October 2009 The Perception of First-Person Causation. Keynote Address, St Andrews Graduate Conference.
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October 2009 Perceptual Experience and Cognitive Penetrability ZIF, Bielefeld. Knowledge and Performance in Perception.
May 2009 “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification” Jowett Society, Oxford University.
April 2009 “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification”. Southern Methodist University.
April 2009 “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification”. University of Kentucky Graduate Conference.
December 2008 “What Do We See?” Neuphi, Boston University.
November 2008 Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification First Annual Philosophy/Psychology, DataBlitz/Speed-Philosophy Exchange, Harvard.
November 2008 Dreams and Intentionality Center for Sleep and Cognition, BIDMC, Harvard.
November 2008 “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification” The Ohio State University.
October 2008 “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification” University of Toronto.
October 2008 “Phenomenal Intentionality and Cognitive Phenomenology” Workshop on Phenomenal Intentionality, University of Arizona, Tucson.
September 2008 What Do We See? The Philosophical Society, University of Umeaa, Sweden.
September 2008 The Varieties of Perceptual Intentionality. The Burman Lectures, University of Umeaa, Sweden.
September 2008 The Contents of Visual Experience The Burman Lectures, University of Umeaa, Sweden.
September 2008 Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification Stockholm University.
August 2008 Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification (with comments from Maja Spener), The Role of Consciousness in Thought, Dubrovnik Inter-University Center, Croatia.
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August 2008 The Weak Content View (with comments from Charles Travis), SPAWN, Syracuse University.
August 2008 Is Visual Experience a Propositional Attitude? World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, South Korea.
April 2008 “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification” Seminar Discussion, MIT.
April 2008 “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification” Rutgers University.
April 2008 “Phenomenal Contrast and the Contents of Experience” Towards of Science of Consciousness 2008, University of Arizona.
March 2008 “Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification” Basic Knowledge Workshop on Perceptual Justification, University of St Andrews.
December 2007 “The Visual Experience of Causation” General discussion, Bates College.
November 2007 “The Fact View and the Content View” Themes from Epistemological Writings of McDowell, University of Stirling.
November 2007 “Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?” Glasgow Workshop on Perception and Introspection.
October 2007 “Do Experiences have Contents?” Seminar discussion, Brown University.
October 2007 “Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?” University of Vermont.
June 2007 “Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?” ANU Workshop on Phenomenology and Intentionality.
March 2007 How Can We Discover the Contents of Experience? University of Glasgow, Conference on the Admissible Contents of Experience
October 2006 Do Visual Experiences Have Contents? University of London
October 2006 “The Visual Experience of Causation” University of Warwick
September 2006 “How Can We Find Out Which Contents Experiences Have?” Spindel Conference, Memphis, with comments by Joseph Tolliver.
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September 2006 “Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?” University of Mississippi, Oxford Missisippi.
September 2006 Do Visual Experiences Have Contents? Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Berlin.
May 2006 “The Visual Experience of Causation” On-line Philosophy Conference.
May 2006 Comments on Sean Kelly's “Perceptual Normativity and Human Freedom” Cornell Cognitive Studies Symposium on Perception and Action.
April 2006 “Do Visual Experiences Have Contents?” Amherst College.
March 2006, The Visual Experience of Causation Massachusetts Bay Philosophy Alliance.
February 2006 “The Phenomenology of Efficacy” University of California, Berkeley January 2006,6 “The Experience and Perception of Causation” Arizona Ontology Conference.
October 2005 “The Phenomenology of Efficacy” MIT.
October 2005 “The Phenomenology of Efficacy” University of Toronto.
April 2005 “The Phenomenology of Efficacy” UMass Amherst.
March 2005 Comments on Michelle Montague's “Russell's Principle and a Problem for Vision” Pacific Division APA.
February 2005 “Direct Realism and Perceptual Consciousness” Australian National University and Center for Consciousness.
January 2005, The Phenomenology of Efficacy Australian National University.
December 2004, The Role of Perception in Demonstrative Reference discussion at Yale University.
November 2004, Direct Realism and Perceptual Consciousness Conference on The Phenomenal, University College, London.
July 2004, Object-seeing and the Sensation/Perception Distinction Invited Symposium on Object Perception, SPP/ESPP, Barcelona, Spain.
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June 2004, Comments on Mike Martin's "On Being Alienated", NYU Conference on Consciousness and Intentionality, La Pietra, Florence, Italy.
June 2004, Comments on Scott Sturgeon's "Apriorism about Modality", University of Konstanz, Germany.
April 2004, Discussion with Marc Hauser on Moral Judgments and Cognitive Science, Harvard Society for Mind, Brain and Behavior.
April 2004, The Phenomenology of Efficacy, Tufts University.
April 2004, The Phenomenology of Efficacy, Yale University Perception and Cognition Lab.
March 2004, How Does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object-seeing?, Pacific Division APA.
February 2004, Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception, UCLA.
February 2004, Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives, UCLA Philosophy of Language Workshop.
February 2004, Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception, UC Irvine.
February 2004, Comments on David Chalmers' "Perception and the Fall from Eden", Concepts and Content Conference, UC Santa Barbara.
February 2004, Which Properties are Represented in Perception?, New York Univeristy.
January 2004, Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception, University of Miami.
January 2004, Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception, UC Davis.
December 2003, Comments on James Pryor's “What is De Re Thought?”, Eastern Division APA.
November 2003, Visual Experience and the Phenomenology of Efficacy , Workshop on the Phenomenology of Agency, University of Arizona.
August 2003, Which Properties are Represented in Perception?, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
August 2003, Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception, Dartmouth College.
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July 2003, Two Phenomenological Constraints on Object-seeing, National Yang Ming University Workshop on Consciousness, Taipei, Taiwan.
July 2003, Which Properties are Represented in Perception?, National Yang Ming University Workshop on Consciousness, Taipei, Taiwan.
July 2003, Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives, ANU Workshop in Philosophy of Language.
June 2003, Particularity and Presence in Visual Perception, Australian National University.
May 2003, Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives, Language, Mind and World Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
March 2003, Comments on Noam Chomsky's Distinguished Lectures on Mind, Brain and Behavior, Harvard University.
November 2002, Which Properties are Represented in Perception?, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
November 2002, Which Properties are Represented in Perception?, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson,
November 2002, Object-seeing and the Mental, University of Virginia.
October 2002, "The Disjunctive Theory of Perception", Swarthmore College.
October 2002, "Are Kind-Properties Represented in Perception?” Syracuse University
July 2002, “Misperception”, NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, UC Santa Cruz.
April 2002, Comments on M. G. F. Martin's "The Limits of Self-Awareness", Oberlin Colloquium on Perception.
April 2002, "Misperception", Utah Colloquium on Self-Knowledge, with comments by Ned Block and Ram Neta.
February 2002, "Misperception", Vassar College.
August 2000, “Object-seeing and Phenomenal Character" European Society of Philosophy and Psychology, Fribourg, Switzerland.
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June 2001, "Object-seeing and Unfilled Propositions" University of Rijeka, Croatia.
May 2001, "The Contents of Visual Experience" Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke University.
April 2001, "Demonstrative Reference: What is it?" Amherst College. Guest seminar in Philosophy department.
November 2000, Object-seeing and the mental, Philosophy Department, NYU.
September 2000, "Object-seeing and the mental" Mental Phenomena III. Inter- university Center, Dubrovnic, Croatia.
May 2000, Raw-Feels, Truth-aptness, and visual differentiation", Cumberland Lodge, Birkbeck College, London.
May 2000, Visual experience and individuation, Birkbeck College, London
May 1999 Viewpoint-invariance, visual experience, and the justification of demonstrative beliefs. Cognitive Science Conference on Perception, Art and Consciousness, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
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