This page collects materials from some originate from some of invited talks and conference presentations I have given, covering topics in philosophy of mind, consciousness, and cognitive science.
Instructions: Each entry below links to the relevant materials in the form of a PowerPoint presentation of a video recordings. To open a PowerPoint presentation full size, click the icon in its bottom right corner. To see the animations, move through the presentation by clicking on the slides themselves, not on the arrows at the bottom of the screen. The videos should play in your browser. Some presentations have been rendered as silent videos. These will run quickly, so be ready to use the pause button!
Note on images: The images in these presentations are used for non-commercial educational purposes and are believed to qualify as fair use or to be in the public domain. If this is not the case for any image, please notify me and I will remove it promptly.
Panpsychism and the depsychologization of consciousness (July 2021)
31 July 2022
Plenary session, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Hertfordshire. Joint presentation with Yujin Nagasawa. My talk starts at 26:23.
What is the role of introspection in explaining the illusion of phenomenality? (2022)
31 May 2022
Metaphysics and Introspection workshop, CEU, Vienna, 13-14 May 2022. This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office.
The case against consciousness (2020)
30 September 2020
TSC 2020 Tucson Online, plenary session on Reality / Illusion with Donald Hoffman, 15 September 2020. My presentation begins at 37:20.
In praise of epistemic innocence (2020)
30 June 2020
My contribution to an online symposium on Lisa Bortolotti’s book The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs, June 2020.
The meta-problem, the meta-question, and the hard meta-problem (2019)
12 May 2019
Workshop: The Role and Reality of Consciousness, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece, 12 May 2019.
The emancipation of the drone (2019)
8 May 2019
Co-presentation with Daniel C. Dennett. Symposium: Growing Autonomy in Human and Artificial Agents, University of Reading, UK, 8 May 2019.
An illusionist response to the meta-problem of consciousness (2018)
6 December 2018
Cogito Research Centre in Philosophy, Bologna, Italy, 6 December 2018.
What kind of illusion is the illusion of consciousness? (2018)
25 May 2018
Workshop: Illusionism as Theory of Consciousness, LABEX IEC, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France, 25 May 2018.
Alief, b-lief, and c-lief (2018)
18 February 2018
The Nature of Belief conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 16-18 February 2018.
Self-deception as misidentified pragmatic acceptance (2017)
27 October 2017
Conference on Self-Deception: What It Is and What It Is Worth, University of Basel, Switzerland, 25-27 October 2017.
