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.
Getting to the heart of the dual-systems distinction (2013)
24 September 2013
First conference of the Herbert A. Simon Society, Bounded Rationality, New York, USA, April 2013. Handout
How to your control your prejudices (2012)
5 December 2012
Research seminar, Department of Philosophy, The Open University, UK, 5 December 2012.
Qualia: The real thing (2010)
14 February 2012
Second Annual Online Consciousness Conference, February 2010. Link to conference webpage for the talk, including video presentation, short paper, commentaries by Richard Brown and Amy Kind, and discussion session.
Implicit bias, two types of belief, and metacognitive motivation (2011)
1 December 2011
The Nature of Implicit Bias workshop, Implicit Bias and Philosophy International Research Project, University of Sheffield, UK, December 2011.
Belief and avowed belief (2009)
31 May 2009
Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete, Greece, May 2009.
Dual-process theories and the personal-subpersonal hypothesis (2006)
1 July 2006
In Two Minds conference, The Open University, Cambridge, UK, July 2006.
The anti-zombie argument for physicalism (2005)
31 August 2005
Annual conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Lund University, Sweden, August 2005. Handout
Innateness, culture, and the two-level mind (2003)
31 March 2003
Weekend conference for the AHRB project Innateness and the Structure of the Mind, University of Maryland, USA, March 2003.