Talks


Named Lectures and Keynotes:

16th UFAW Animal Welfare Student Conference: “Animal Sentience and Welfare” (2022)

Invited Talks:

University of Cambridge workshop on Non-Human Consciousness: “The extrapolation problem for indicators of consciousness” [presented by co-author Heather Browning 2022]

University of Canterbury: “The Moral Status of Non-Human Minds: From Animals to Sentient AI Systems” (2022)

Lund University: Cancer, Multicellularity, and Complex System Symposium “Pathological Complexity and the Evolution of Multicellularity” (2022)

Lund University: Cancer, Multicellularity, and Complex System Symposium “How to merge specialized expertise?” with Itay Yanai, Nina Burton, and Bron Szerzysnki; moderated by Lars Mogensen (2022)

University of Durham, Chess Seminar: “Model Eliminativism” (2022) [Cancelled due to UK higher education strikes]

University of Agriculture (SUA) Morogoro, Tanzania: APOPO POWER OF SCENTS: Olfactory research from innovation to application and validation workshop workshop “Animal Sentience, Welfare, and Benthamite Creatures” (2022)

University of Bayreuth Research Seminar: “The Evolution of Preferences” (2022)

MCMP LMU (Munich) Colloquium: “Consciousness, Complexity, and Evolution” (2022)

Cardiff University: Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies: “Enhancement and Feminism” (2022)

Klimakonferenz (Climate Change conference; online): “Theory Roulette: Choosing that Climate Change is not a Tragedy of the Commons” [presented by co-author Jakob Ortmann] (2022)

Joint Brazilian Annual Ethological/Latin American Ethological Conference “Towards an Ethological Science of Consciousness” (2021) [Recording available]

University of St Andrews: Wild Animal Ethics conference “Positive Wild Animal Welfare” [presented by co-author Heather Browning] (2021) [Recording available]

Oxford University: 7th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research “Wild Animal Welfare” [presented by co-author Heather Browning] (2021)

Tel Aviv University: 24th Annual Meeting of the ASSC “Non-human consciousness: current paradigms and debates” [with Henry Shevlin, Heather Browning, Matt Crosby, and Cecily Whitely] (2021)

Oxford University: 6th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research “Longtermism and animals” [presented by co-author Heather Browning] (2021)

Bordeaux-Sydney workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Biomedicine: “Of mosasaurs, turtles, and scuba divers: A challenge for evolutionary accounts of health and disease” (2020)

Istanbul: Boğaziçi University “From Scaffolding to Natural Selection” (2019)

Istanbul Medeniyet University “Ecological Scaffolding and Natural Selection” (2019)

Ankara: University of Bilkent “Ecological Scaffolding and Natural Selection” (2019)

University of Bath: Centre for Networks and Collective Behaviour “Against Methodology in Modeling” (2019)

Refereed Talks:

University of Fribourg: Animals, Compassion and Conservation Workshop, Ethics and Scientific Methods Relating to Wild Animals, Their Welfare and Conservation: “Counting positive wild animal welfare” (2023)

Georgetown University: Paradox of the Organism Conference “Life-History Theory as the Teleonomic Theory of the Organism” (2022)

Arizona State University: International Network for Economic Method “The Evolution of Preferences”  (2021) [Recording available]

Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (Baltimore) “Integrating Animal Consciousness into Welfare” [presented by co-author Heather Browning] (2021)

International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB 2021) “Pathological Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness” (2021)

University of Waikato: AAP 2021 “Pathological Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness” (2021)

Turku: European Society for Evolutionary Biology “Evolution of Multicellularity: Cheating Done Right”  (2019) [Recording available]

University of Helsinki: International Network for Economic Method “Who is Afraid of Model Pluralism?”  (2019)

University of Bristol: Annual UK Kant Society Annual Conference “Kant as an Error Theorist” (2019)

Prague: 16th Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology “Model Pluralism” (2019)

Oslo: International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB 2019) “Novel Perspectives on the Major Transitions” (Symposium Organizer, 2019)  

Lake Como: Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies – Summer School “Model Pluralism”  (2019)

Krakow: Workshop on Fitness and Niche Construction at Jagiellonian University “Ecological Scaffolding and Natural Selection” (2019)

Barbados: Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium “Enhancement Technologies and the Threat of Inequality”  (2019)

University of Vermont: Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable “Who is Afraid of Model Pluralism?” (2019)  

Cambridge: Evolution evolving: Process, mechanism and theory “Evolution of Multicellularity: Cheating Done Right” (2019)  

University of Leeds: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Evolution and Ecology “Evolution of Multicellularity: Cheating Done Right” (2019)  

University of Cologne: Third International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science “How does Evolutionary Game Theory Explain? ” (2019)  

University of Cardiff: Feminism & Technology “Enhancement Technologies and Feminist Concerns” (2018)  

University of Bordeaux: First meeting of the PhilInBioMed international network “Evolution of Multicellularity: Cheating Done Right” (2018)

Camus Society Conference 2018: London “Existential Nihilism: The Only Really Serious Philosophical Problem” (2018)

IX Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science “Human Enhancement and the Threat of Inequality” (2018)

University of Seville: Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition and Computation “What can we learn from Models for the Evolution of Morality?” (2018)  

University of Rijeka: 26th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology “What can we learn from Models for the Evolution of Morality?” (2018)

Vercelli: IV FINO Graduate Conference in Mind, Language and Cognition: Kinds of Reasoning “Model-Based Reasoning: A case study of evolutionary game theory” (2018)

University of Bayreuth:  ‘3rd think! Conference in Analytical Philosophy’ “The Explanatory Power of Evolutionary Game Theory” (2018)

University of Calgary: ‘Philosophy of Biology – 7th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference’ “The Evolution of Multicellularity: Cheating Done Right” (2018)

University of Düsseldorf: Conference ‘The Generalized Theory of Evolution’ “The Evolution of Multicellularity: Cheating Done Right”  (2018)

University of Bayreuth: Conference ‘LSE-UBT Conference in Philosophy’ “Procreative Beneficence and Genetic Enhancement” (2016)

Poster Presentations:

Stanford University: Metascience 2019 Symposium “Metascience of Consciousness” (2019) 

Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (Seattle) “Who is Afraid of Model Pluralism?” (2018)

University of Turin: 11th MuST Conference in Philosophy of Science “The Explanatory Power of Evolutionary Game Theory” (2018)