Recent Presentations

“Fidelity and devotion in personal relationships.” Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Kings College London, 4/26

“The past lives of immortals.” Meaning and Mortality Workshop, University of Valencia, 3/26

Commentary on Debes’ The Possibility of Respect: Human Dignity and the Ethics of Difference, St. Andrew’s University, 3/26

“Dying generously: Altruistic freedom at the end of life.” Hochschule für Philosophie München, 2/26.

“Grief and memory in radically extended human lives.” Invited lecture, Jarislowsky Lecture Series in Human Nature and Technology, McGill University, Montreal, 12/25

“On the very possibility of an emotional relationship with death.” Online conference, ‘Values and Emotions,’ Institute of Philosophy, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland, 11/25

“Finding the good in grief.” School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Science, University of Edinburgh, 10/25.

“The necessity of necessity: Post-work liberation and its critics.” MANCEPT panel, Post-Work as Political Thought: Establishing and Questioning the Boundaries of a Tradition, University of Manchester, 9/25

“Estrangement from the valuable: Toward a comprehensive account of death’s harms.” Invited presentation, ‘Death and the Self’ conference, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, 7/25

“Suicide in a world without natural death.” Neuroscience and Psychology of Suicide seminar (online), 7/25

“The lonely labourer (and their AI colleagues).” Paper for Digital Workplaces and the Lived Experience of Work, Swansea University, 6/25

“Grief and memory in radically extended human lives.” Workshop on Grief and Memory, Centre for Philosophy of Memory, University of Grenoble, 6/25

“Devotion and the opacity of grief.” Panel presentation, European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion Annual Conference, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, 6/25

“Creating vulnerable agents: Toward a Kantian procreative ethic.” Workshop on ‘Kant’s Ethics Beyond the Strawman’, Greifswald University, 5/25

“Suffering and the virtuousness of grief.” Conference on New Work in Pain and Suffering, University of Glasgow, 5/25

“Grief’s medicalization and disorderly attention.” Emotion and Attention workshop, University of Oslo, 4/25

“Dependency ratios, intergenerational justice, and the duty to work.” Workshop, Ethics of Choosing and Refusing Work, University of Edinburgh, 2/25

“Human capabilities and the right to grieve.” Invited presentation, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, 2/25

“Practical fidelity and the duty to grieve.”

• Rutgers University Value Theory colloquium, 11/24
• Departmental colloquium, State University of New York, New Paltz, 11/24

“Immortality and the varieties of agency,” Invited speaker, 19^th New York University Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy, 11/24

“Our aversion toward death.” Yale University Moral Philosophy Working Group, 11/24

“Grief and the value of tragedy.” Princeton University Normative Philosophy Workshop, 11/24.

“The cruelty in capital punishment?” Seton Hall University, 11/24

“Griefbots, memory, and death denial.” Keynote presentation, Death and the Digital Realm, Leiden University, 10/24

“The harm of execution.” 5th Biennial World Meeting, International Association for hte Philosophy of Death and Dying, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 8/24

“Warranted affective ambivalence: The case of grief.” International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying, 7/24 (online)