Selected research presentations (2015-present)
“The duty to work.” Chaffey College, 2/2018
“A duty to grieve.” American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting, Savannah, Ga., 1/ 2018
“Is there a moral obligation to work?”
- Georgia State University, 1/2018
- Bowling Green Workshop on Applied Ethics and Public Policy (“The Future of Work, Technology, and a Basic Income”), Bowling Green State University, 4/2017
“Equal respect for rational agency.” MANCEPT workshop, Manchester, UK, “Moral Equality and Equal Respect,” 9/2017
“Public cartels, private conscience.”
- Inaugural meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, New Orleans, 3/2017
- Southern California Law and Philosophy group, 3/2017
“Anti-conservative bias in education is real — but not unjust.” Pomona College, 3/2017
“Black Lives Matter and the call for death penalty abolition.” (with Alex Madva), Cal Poly Pomona philosophy brown bag series, 2/2017
“The value of self-knowledge.” Cal Poly Pomona Philosophy brown bag series, 1/2017
“Paternalism and self-knowledge,” workshop on the objectionability of paternalism,University of Zurich (Switzerland), 10/2016
“The moral difference Kantian universalization makes.” Graduate workshop, University of Turku, Finland, 9/2016
“Grief and the rationality of end of life surrogate decisions.” Graduate workshop, University of Turku, Finland, 9/2016
“Resilience, regret, and the nature of grief” Public Lecture series, University of Turku, Finland, 9/2016
Comment on Bovens, “The extension of euthanasia legislation to minors in Belgium” International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 5/2016
American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting, “Resilience and the nature of grief” (a discussion of Moller’s “Love and death”), San Francisco, 3/2016
University of Mississippi, Philosophy Forum, “The denial of moral dilemmas as a regulative ideal,” 2/2016
“Libertarian paternalism: Manipulation without coercion?”, symposium on manipulation, Muhlenberg College, 1/2016
“Achieving self-knowledge,” Swarthmore College, 1/2016
“How grief makes our lives go well.” Kutztown University, 1/2016
“Esoteric moral theories.” Southern California Philosophy Conference, San Diego, Ca., 10/2015
“Surrogate choice, substituted judgment, and anticipatory grief.” Hastings Center, Garrison, N.Y., 4/2015
“Psychiatric liability and the treatment of the suicidal.” Rutgers University, Camden, N.J., 3/2015
“The compensatory basis of parental rights.” From Procreative Acts to Parental Rights, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2/2015
“Grief as a psychiatric disorder: A case study in medicalization.” The Limits of Medicine, University of Redlands, Redlands, Calif., 2/2015
Author meets critics panelist, A. Cohen, Philosophy, Ethics, and Public Policy, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Costa Mesa, Ca., 2/2015
