Research presentations (2008-present)
“Luck, blame, and blameworthiness.” Southern California Law and Philosophy Group, 11/11
“Kant on political revolution: Not so revolutionary?” Early Modern Speaker Series, Pomona, Ca., 10/11
“What ought implies can implies about moral dilemmas.” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado, 8/11
“A Socratic critique of Socrates’ noble falsehood.” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, Ca., 4/11 [with Ara Astourian]
“Kantian paternalism and suicide intervention.” Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy (Freedom, Paternalism, and Morality), 4/11.
“Lies as epistemically reckless assertions.” Southern California Law and Philosophy Group, 12/10
“A direct Kantian duty to animals”
- Center for Applied Ethics, California State University, Long Beach, 4/10
- Leonard Lecture, University of Nevada-Reno, 3/10
“Kant on moral dilemmas.” American Philosophical Association meeting, San Francisco, Calif., 4/10
“A revisionary Kantian view of moral dilemmas.”
- 12th Southern California Philosophy Conference, Claremont, Calif., 11/09
- Southern California Law and Philosophy Group, 10/09
“Kant and moral dilemmas.” Second Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., 8/09
“Why there is (almost) never a duty to die.” Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Oh., 3/09
“What’s wrong with hazing.” Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, 1/09
“Moore’s paradox and moral motivation.”
• University of Waterloo Philosophy Colloquium, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1/09
• 10th Anniversary Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Conference, Blaise Pascal Institut, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3/08
“Kantianism and the problem of sensitivity to evil.”
• Invited lecture, CSU-Los Angeles Department of Philosophy, 10/08
• Southern California Law and Philosophy Group, 11/08
“The duty to die and burdensomeness of existence.” 25th International Conference on Social Philosophy, University of Portland, Portland, Ore., 7/08
“Kantian rigorism and defensive deception.” American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting, Chicago, Ill., 4/08
Comment on J.Q. Adams, “The inconsistency of morally required diminishment.” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting, Pasadena, Calif., 3/08
