RECENT PRESENTATIONS, since 2018
“Using Experimental Models to Investigate How Agency can Arise and Evolve”, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario; October 10, 2025)
“A Jamesian Approach to Investigating Agency and Innovation”, International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (July 2025)
“Pursuing Metaphysics by Examining Successful Investigative Practices”, APA Pacific Division Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: April 2025)
“Pursuing Metaphysics by Examining Successful Investigative Practices”, Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: November 2024)
“Pursuing Metaphysics by Examining Successful Investigative Practices” Rotman Institute of Philosophy Fall 2024 Conference, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario: September 2024)
“The Metaphysics of Biological Hierarchy”, keynote, Undergraduate Conference, University of Lethbridge (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: March 2023)
“Metaphysics of Biological Hierarchy”, Department of Philosophy, Aberdeen University (Virtual: March 2023)
“Black Boxes All the Way Down”, APA Central Division, Affiliate Group Program, Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workgroup: Black Boxes Symposium (February 23, 2023)
“Morgan’s Achievement”, Kitcherfest: Conference for Philip Kitcher, Columbia University New (York City, New York, USA: November 2022)
“The ontology of life and how genetics can be employed to investigate the cessation of life”, (Bethesda, Maryland: November, 2022)
“Scientific Metaphysics of Hierarchy”, invited talk, Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism Conference coinciding with the third annual meeting of the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative. (Banff, Alberta, Canada: September 27, 2019).
“Scientific Metaphysics of Hierarchy”, keynote, International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (Cologne, Germany: February 25, 2019)
“How Genetics Succeeds: An Epistemology of Scientific Experimentation”, keynote, International Workshop on Philosophy of Biology, Manipular y Conocer en Biologia: nuevas perspectivas en la epistemologia de las ciencias de la vida (Santiago, Chile: January 8, 2019)
“The Multiplicity of Hierarchical Structures in the Biological World”, Department of Biology, University of Chile (Santiago, Chile: January 7, 2019)
“How Genetics Succeeds: An Epistemology of Scientific Investigation”, HPS Program, SNU and Korean Society for the Philosophy of Science, National Seoul University (Seoul, South Korea; October 19, 2018)
“Hierarchies in a World With No General Structure”, Institute for Philosophy, Seoul National University, (Seoul, South Korea; October 18, 2018)
“How Genetics Succeeds: An Epistemology of Scientific Investigation, Drake Lecture, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University of Regina (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; May 27, 2018)
“Ask Not ‘What is an Individual?’”, keynote, Process Biology: Final Conference of the ERC Project ‘A ProcessOntology for Contemporary Biology’ (London, UK; March 23, 2018)
“Using Experimental Models to Investigate How Agency can Arise and Evolve”, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario; October 10, 2025)
“A Jamesian Approach to Investigating Agency and Innovation”, International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (July 2025)
“Pursuing Metaphysics by Examining Successful Investigative Practices”, APA Pacific Division Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: April 2025)
“Pursuing Metaphysics by Examining Successful Investigative Practices”, Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: November 2024)
“Pursuing Metaphysics by Examining Successful Investigative Practices” Rotman Institute of Philosophy Fall 2024 Conference, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario: September 2024)
“The Metaphysics of Biological Hierarchy”, keynote, Undergraduate Conference, University of Lethbridge (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: March 2023)
“Metaphysics of Biological Hierarchy”, Department of Philosophy, Aberdeen University (Virtual: March 2023)
“Black Boxes All the Way Down”, APA Central Division, Affiliate Group Program, Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workgroup: Black Boxes Symposium (February 23, 2023)
“Morgan’s Achievement”, Kitcherfest: Conference for Philip Kitcher, Columbia University New (York City, New York, USA: November 2022)
“The ontology of life and how genetics can be employed to investigate the cessation of life”, (Bethesda, Maryland: November, 2022)
“Scientific Metaphysics of Hierarchy”, invited talk, Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism Conference coinciding with the third annual meeting of the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative. (Banff, Alberta, Canada: September 27, 2019).
“Scientific Metaphysics of Hierarchy”, keynote, International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (Cologne, Germany: February 25, 2019)
“How Genetics Succeeds: An Epistemology of Scientific Experimentation”, keynote, International Workshop on Philosophy of Biology, Manipular y Conocer en Biologia: nuevas perspectivas en la epistemologia de las ciencias de la vida (Santiago, Chile: January 8, 2019)
“The Multiplicity of Hierarchical Structures in the Biological World”, Department of Biology, University of Chile (Santiago, Chile: January 7, 2019)
“How Genetics Succeeds: An Epistemology of Scientific Investigation”, HPS Program, SNU and Korean Society for the Philosophy of Science, National Seoul University (Seoul, South Korea; October 19, 2018)
“Hierarchies in a World With No General Structure”, Institute for Philosophy, Seoul National University, (Seoul, South Korea; October 18, 2018)
“How Genetics Succeeds: An Epistemology of Scientific Investigation, Drake Lecture, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University of Regina (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; May 27, 2018)
“Ask Not ‘What is an Individual?’”, keynote, Process Biology: Final Conference of the ERC Project ‘A ProcessOntology for Contemporary Biology’ (London, UK; March 23, 2018)