Presentations

  • “Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and HPS.” Workshop on Experimental Philosophy of Science. Aarhus University. Oct. 15-16, 2019.
  • “Individual Differences in Folk Metaethical Commitments.” Easter Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Group program: Experimental Philosophy Society. New York City. Jan 7-10, 2019.
  • “Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and HPS.” Presidential Address, Central States Philosophical Association Annual Meeting. Buffalo, NY. Oct. 27, 2018.
  • “Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and HPS.” 2018 Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference. University at Buffalo. Sept. 21, 2018.
  • “Multiply Signifying Names in Ordinary Language.” 2018 Meeting of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK. University College London, June 14-16, 2018.
  • “Multiply Signifying Names in Ordinary Language” (with Greg Frost-Arnold). Society for Exact Philosophy. University of Connecticut. May 18-20, 2018.
  • “Zhuangzi, Skepticism, and Intellectual Humility.” Northeast/Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought, University of Connecticut. April 27-29, 2018.
  • “Healthy Skepticism vs. Denialism: How to Tell the Difference.” Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo. Mar. 29, 2018.
  • “Humble Conviction in the Face of Peer Disagreement and Contradictory Expert Testimony.” Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut. Mar. 28, 2018.
  • “Zhuangzi’s Intellectual Humility Route to Skepticism.” University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada. Feb. 2, 2018. 
  • “Why Knobe is Wrong About the Knobe Effect.” Keynote lecture, Second Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany, Osnabrück, Germany. Nov. 16-18, 2017.
  • “Divergent Perspectives on Expert Disagreement: Evidence from Astrophysicists, Climate Scientists, Climate Policy Experts, and Non-Experts.” Trust, Expert Opinion and Policy: A Multidisciplinary Conference Investigating Questions of Trust in and the Trustworthiness of Expert Opinion. University College Dublin. Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2017.
  • “Intuitions about Conditional Excluded Middle” (with Michael J. Shaffer). Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference. Aug. 18-19, 2017.
  • “Zhuangzi’s Skepticism and Intellectual Humility.” Chinese and Western Philosophy in Comparative Perspective: In Honor of the Late Professor Jiyuan Yu. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. Apr. 20, 2017.
  • “The Explanationist Approach to Skeptical Challenges.” Society for Skeptical Studies session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Baltimore, MD. Jan. 4 – Jan. 7, 2017.
  • “The Explanationist Approach to Skeptical Challenges.” Central States Philosophical Association. University of Nebraska. Oct. 28 – 29, 2016.
  • “Epistemic Closure in Folk Epistemology.” The Second Annual Minds Online Conference (http://mindsonline.philosophyofbrains.com/minds-online-2016-program/). Sept. 19-23, 2016.
  • “The Probabilities of Might and Would Counterfactuals” (with Michael J. Shaffer). Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference. Buffalo, NY. Sept. 9-10, 2016.
  • “The Explanationist Approach to Skeptical Challenges.” Lingnan University, Hong Kong. June 20, 2016.
  • “Crosscultural Experimental Epistemology.” Shandong University, Jinan, China. June 2, 2016.
  • “Epistemic Closure in Folk Epistemology.” University College Dublin. Apr. 15, 2016.
  • “Introduction to Experimental Epistemology for Scientists: What is it and Why Should We Care?” Workshop When Experts Disagree: Contested Astrophysics. University College Dublin. Apr. 12, 2016.
  • “The Explanationist Approach to Skeptical Challenges.” Long Island Philosophical Society. Molloy College. Rockville Centre, New York. Apr. 9, 2016.
  • “The Probabilities of Might and Would Counterfactuals.” Buffalo Logic Colloquium. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. Mar. 31, 2016.
  • “Epistemic Closure in Folk Epistemology.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Mar. 10, 2016. Louisville, Kentucky.
  • “Biased Assessments of the Knowledge of Bad People.” Workshop on Experimental Philosophy: How Can We Use Science to Study Philosophical Questions? Center for Inquiry. Buffalo, NY. Nov. 14, 2015.
  • “Do People Think Morality is Objective or Subjective?” Workshop on Experimental Philosophy: How Can We Use Science to Study Philosophical Questions? Center for Inquiry. Buffalo, NY. Nov. 14, 2015.
  • “Does Skepticism Presuppose Explanationism?” University at Buffalo. Oct. 30, 2015.
  • “Moral Objectivism Among the Folk.” Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference. Buffalo, NY. Sept. 11, 2015.
  • “Shutting the Door on Epistemic Closure.” Sixth Conference of Experimental Philosophy Group UK. University of Nottingham. June 29, 2015.
  • “Do Ordinary People Believe Moral Judgments Are Objective?” Cognitive Science Symposia Lecture, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. June 8, 2015.
  • “Cross-Cultural Differences in Semantic Intuitions.” University of Warsaw, Poland. June 2, 2015.
  • “Are the Folk Moral Objectivists or Moral Relativists?” University of Warsaw, Poland. June 1, 2015.
  • “Understanding Ordinary Metaethical Commitments.” Center for Philosophic Exchange. State University of New York at Brockport. May 1, 2015.
  • “Knowledge In and Out of Contrast.” Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference. University at Buffalo. Sept. 19, 2014.
  • “Knowledge In and Out of Contrast.” Canadian Philosophical Association. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. May 28, 2014.
  • “What Makes Supernatural Beliefs Memorable?” Annual Meeting of the Eastern International Region of the American Academy of Religion. Syracuse University. May 3, 2014.
  • “What Triggers Supernatural Beliefs?” Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, and Culture. University of British Columbia. March 3, 2014.
  • “The Folk Conception of Weakness of Will,” University of Waterloo. Nov. 1, 2013.
  • “Individual and Cross-Cultural Differences in Semantic Intuitions.” Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference. University at Buffalo. Oct. 11, 2013.
  • “Individual and Cross-Cultural Differences in Semantic Intuitions.” Fourth Workshop of Experimental Philosophy Group UK. University of Bristol. Sept. 12, 2013.
  • “Epistemic Focal Bias, Contrastivism, and Knowledge Attributions.” Canadian Society for Epistemology. University of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Nov. 23, 2012.
  • “The Centrality of Belief and Reflection in Knobe Effect Cases.” Society for Exact Philosophy. Columbus, OH. Oct. 11-13, 2012.
  • “Gettierized Knobe Effects.” Central States Philosophical Association. Columbia, MO. Sept. 21-22, 2012.
  • “How Your Actions Modulate Others’ Epistemic Assessments of Your Beliefs.” Midwest Empirical and Theoretical Association. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sept. 19, 2012.
  • “The Experimental Study of Metaethical Intuitions,” Marist College. Poughkeepsie, NY. April 19, 2012.
  • “A Priori Skepticism,” The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Feb. 29, 2012.
  • “A Priori Skepticism,” University of Texas at San Antonio, Feb. 7, 2012.
  • “The Experimental Study of Epistemic Intuitions,” Workshop on Intuitions in Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 5-7, 2011.
  • “The Centrality of Belief and Reflection in Knobe Effect Cases: A Unified Account of the Data” (keynote), European Workshop on Experimental Philosophy, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, October 7, 2011.
  • “What Can Evolutionary Game Theory Tell Us About the Concept of Knowledge?” University at Buffalo. Sept. 16, 2011.
  • “Moral Objectivism Across the Lifespan.” Cognitive Science Colloquium. University at Buffalo. April 27, 2011.
  • “Moral Objectivism Across the Lifespan.” Society for Empirical Ethics meeting at the Pacific division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. San Diego, CA, April 20, 2011.
  • “Possible Social Functions of Knowledge Attributions.” The Society for Skeptical Studies meeting at the Eastern division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Boston, MA. Dec. 29, 2010.
  • “Moral Objectivism Across the Lifespan” (with David Sackris). Experimental Philosophy Society meeting at the Eastern division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Boston, MA. Dec. 28, 2010.
  • “Recent Work in Experimental Epistemology.” Grand Valley State University. November 19, 2010.
  • “Recent Work in Experimental Epistemology.” East China Normal University. Shanghai, China. October 29, 2010.
  • “Surprising Connections Between Folk Conceptions of Knowledge and Action.” Hongo Metaphysics Club, University of Tokyo, Japan. Oct. 6, 2010.
  • “Recent Work in Experimental Epistemology.” Kyoto University, Japan. Oct. 4, 2010.
  • “Surprising Connections Between Folk Conceptions of Knowledge and Action.” International Conference on Human Knowledge and Human Action. Peking University. Beijing, China. September 24 – 26, 2010.
  • “Minimally Counterintuitive Ideas and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Or, Experimental Philosophy Meets Experimental Theology.” Cognitive Science Symposium. City University of New York. July 29, 2010.
  • “Unlikely but not Impossible: New Contributions to the Minimal Counterintuitiveness Debate in the Cognitive Science of Religion.” Cognition, Religion and Theology Project Ending Conference. Centre for Anthropology & Mind, University of Oxford, June 28 – July 1, 2010.
  • “Possible Social Functions of Knowledge Attributions.” 2010 Episteme Conference: Cognitive Ecology: The Role of the Concept of Knowledge in our Social Cognitive Ecology. University of Edinburgh, Scotland. June 2-4, 2010.
  • “Moral Objectivism Across the Lifespan” (with David Sackris). Metaethics & Experimental Philosophy Workshop. New York University, May 1, 2010.
  • “Unlikely but not Impossible: New Contributions to the Minimal Counterintuitiveness Debate in the Cognitive Science of Religion.” Virtual Poster Session for the Cognition, Religion and Theology Project. Centre for Anthropology & Mind, University of Oxford, April 29-30, 2010.
  • “The Relevance of Experimental Epistemology to Traditional Epistemology.” How and Why Economists and Philosophers do Experiments: Dialogue Between Experimental Economics and Experimental Philosophy. Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan, March 27-28, 2010.
  • “Surprising Connections Between Knowledge and Intentional Action: The Epistemic Side-Effect Effect.” Experimental Epistemology Workshop. University at Buffalo, Oct. 3, 2009.
  • “Surprising Connections Between Knowledge and Intentional Action: The Robustness of the Epistemic Side-Effect Effect.” The 2nd annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Philosophical & Psychological Issues Conference, University of South Alabama, Sept. 25-26, 2009.
  • “The Epistemic Side-Effect Effect: Recent Findings from Experimental Epistemology.” New Directions in Epistemology Conference, sponsored by the Canadian Society for Epistemology. Carleton University, Ottawa, ON. Nov. 21-22, 2008.
  • “Is A Priori Skepticism Self-Defeating?” Central States Philosophical Association, St. Paul, MN, Sept. 26-27, 2008.
  • “A Priori Skepticism.” Society for Exact Philosophy. Laramie, WY. May 14-17, 2008.
  • “Moral Relativism in Context.” Society for Christian Philosophers—Eastern Regional Meeting. Niagara University. Apr. 18-19, 2008.
  • “The Possibility of Skeptical Hypotheses.” The Society for Skeptical Studies. Pasadena, CA. Mar. 20, 2008.
  • “A Priori Skepticism.” Young Philosophers Lecture Series. SUNY—Fredonia. Fredonia, NY. Mar. 13, 2008.
  • “BonJour’s Arguments Against Skepticism About the A Priori.” 2006 Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Chicago, IL. April 26-29, 2006.
  • “Has BonJour Solved the Problem of Induction?” 2006 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Portland, OR. March 22-26, 2006.
  • “Weaknesses of the Abductivist Reply to Skepticism.” The Society for Skeptical Studies. Portland, OR. Mar. 23, 2006.
  • “Must Reliabilists Believe in the A Priori?” 2005 Meeting of the Illinois Philosophical Association. Eastern Illinois University, Nov. 4-5, 2005.
  • “BonJour on Skepticism.” University at Buffalo Philosophy Department Colloquium. Oct. 11, 2005.
  • “BonJour’s Arguments Against Skepticism About the A Priori.” 2005 Meeting of the Central States Philosophical Association. Lexington, KY, Oct. 7-8, 2005.
  • “BonJour’s A Priori Solution to the Problem of Induction.” 2005 Meeting of The Creighton Club: The New York State Philosophical Association. Cornell University, Oct. 1, 2005.
  • “Reliabilism, Truetemp and New Perceptual Faculties.” University at Buffalo Philosophy Department Colloquium. Oct. 28, 2004.
  • “Reliabilism and Deflationism.” 2004 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Pasadena, CA. March 24-28, 2004.
  • “Are Truth-Linked Epistemological Theories Compatible with Antirealist and Epistemic Theories of Truth?” University at Buffalo. Jan. 12, 2004.
  • “Reliabilism and Deflationism.” Fall 2003 Meeting of the Alabama Philosophical Society. Orange Beach, AL. Oct. 24-25, 2003.
  • “The Generality Problem and the Tri-Level Hypothesis.” Louisiana State University. May 21, 2001.
  • “The Generality Problem and the Tri-Level Hypothesis.” Saint Louis University Philosophy Colloquium. May 18, 2001.
  • “Scientific Epistemology and Conceptual-Linguistic Normativity.” The Second Annual Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable. University of Missouri, St. Louis. March 31-April 2, 2000.
  • “Ricoeur, Rational Reconstruction and Religious Experience.” 1998 Midwestern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. April 16-18, 1998.
  • “Ricoeur, Rational Reconstruction and Religious Experience.” 1998 Mountain-Plains Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers. Arizona State University. March 12-14, 1998.
  • “Truth-Content in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics.” The Twenty-Second Annual Mid-South Philosophy Conference. University of Memphis. February 27-28, 1998.
  • “Ricoeur, Rational Reconstruction and Religious Experience.” Fourth Annual Emory University Graduate Student Conference. January 23-24, 1998.
  • “Wittgenstein and Pragmatic Certainty.” Saint Louis University Philosophy Colloquium. March 21, 1997.
  • “Charles S. Peirce: Truth as Something Public.” The Twenty-First Annual Mid-South Philosophy Conference. University of Memphis. February 28-March 1, 1997.