June 2019
op-ed in the New York Times
I’ve published a new op-ed in the New York Times: Deepfakes are Coming. We Can No Longer Believe What We See
new working draft
I’ve made available a working draft essay that provides further background to my recent NYT op-ed. You can find it here: Deepfakes and the Epistemic Backstop
May 2019
essay in Times Literary Supplement
I’ve published an essay in the Times Literary Supplement: The Last Mortals. This essay won the 2018 Marc Sanders Prize in Public Philosophy
2016-2018
busy
I was too busy to update this News page! I moved from New York to Toronto and did a bunch of other things. Maybe I’ll be better about updating in 2019…
December 2015
opinion piece in Aeon
I’ve published an opinion piece in Aeon magazine: Should we rename institutions that honour dead racists?
Talk: Storrs, CT 4 December
Peer-to-Peer Political Violence
Political Violence Workshop, University of Connecticut
October 2015
op-ed in the Los Angeles Times
I’ve published an op-ed in the LA Times: Microaggression, macro harm
Talk: Long Island, 23 October
What is the ‘Neuro’ in Neuroethics?
Values, Morals, and Science conference: Long Island Philosophical Society
September 2015
guest blogging at The Splintered Mind
I’ve been writing guest posts on Eric Schwitzgebel’s excellent blog ‘The Splintered Mind’. You can find a list of all my posts at the bottom of this one.
August 2015
Talk: Bellingham, 3 August
Comments on Tyler Doggett’s ‘Killing Innocent People’
2015 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference
July 2015
New paper
My paper ‘Debunking debunking: A regress challenge for psychological threats to moral judgment’ is now available at Philosophical Studies – you can see it here
Talk: Oxford, 3 July
Epoch Relativism and Our Moral Hopelessness
June 2015
Talk: Jerusalem, 8 June
The Science of Values and the Values of Scientists
Nathan Stemmer Memorial Colloquium on the Philosophy of the Science of Morality, Hebrew University
May 2015
thesis defenses
Congratulations to my advisees: Kristina Dushaj (Bioethics MA), Calvin Sung (Philosophy honors BA), and Kyle Treman (Bioethics MA). It was fun working with you – great job on your theses!
March 2015
New paper
My paper ‘Psychology and the Aims of Normative Ethics’ is now available in The Springer Handbook for Neuroethics – you can see it here
February 2015
New paper
My paper ‘Neuromodulation and the (in)stability of moral cognition’, co-authored with Molly Crockett, is now available in The Moral Brain: A Multidisciplinary Perspective – find the book here
January 2015
New paper
My paper ‘How not to test for philosophical expertise’ is now available at Synthese – you can see it here
November 2014
Talk: Hartford, 21 November
Political Invective
Dominating Speech conference, University of Connecticut
September 2014
starting at NYU
I have started a new position as Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow in the NYU Center for Bioethics. I’m looking forward to this great opportunity!
June 2014
Philosophy Bites
I was interviewed on the Philosophy Bites podcast. You can listen to it here. Thanks to Nigel Warburton and Dave Edmonds for great questions (and kind editing).
Talk: Vienna, 13 June
Experiments and Two Conceptions of Philosophy
Vienna Experimental Philosophy workshop, Wiener Forum fur Analytische Philosophie
Talk: Oxford, 9 June
Abortion, Ultrasound, and Openness to Moral Persuasion
Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar
Talk: Oxford, 6 June
The Trouble with Moral Psychology
Experiments and Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Talk: Bled, 3 June
Abortion, Ultrasound, and Openness to Moral Persuasion
Bled Philosophical Conference: Ethical Issues
April 2014
leaving Oxford
My contract at Oxford has come to an end. I’ll be moving on to a great new position at NYU Bioethics in the autumn. Thanks so much to the colleagues and students who have made the last three years at Oxford so enjoyable!
January 2014
Talk: Oxford, 31 January
What (if anything) can cognitive science contribute to the study of moral emotion?
Oxford Affections and Ethics seminar
Talk: Oxford, 27 January
Norm Compliance and Moral Cognition
December 2013
New paper
My paper ‘Feedback from moral philosophy to cognitive science’ is now available at Philosophical Psychology – you can see it here
November 2013
Talk: Tokyo, 15 November
Moral Psychology and the Narrative Self
Tokyo Colloquium of Cognitive Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan
Talk: Sapporo, 2 November
What is the ‘Neuro’ in Neuroethics?
Eighth International Conference on Applied Ethics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan
October 2013
Oxford Moral Psychology Reading Group
David Hall and I have co-founded the Oxford Moral Psychology Reading Group. The first meeting is Thursday, 24 October.
September 2013
Talk: Bristol, 12 September
Experiments and Two Conceptions of Philosophy
Fourth Annual Workshop, UK Experimental Philosophy Group, University of Bristol, Bristol UK
New paper
My paper ‘Analogies, Moral Intuitions, and the Expertise Defence’ is now available at Review of Philosophy and Psychology – you can see it here
August 2013
New paper
My paper ‘The Science of Morality and its Normative Implications’, co-authored with Tommaso Bruni and Matteo Mameli, is now available at Neuroethics – you can see it here
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