Talks (selection)

09/12 2019: "Posterior Analytics II.11". Aristotle on Grounding, Definition, Explanation, Essence, Ligerz, Switzerland.

05/30 2019: "Universals: Some Old Wine in a New Bottle". The Problem of Universals, Madrid, Spain.

05/11 2019: Comments on Matthias Haase, "Maker's Knowledge". Anscombe's Legacy, York University, Toronto.

09/04 2018: "Avicenna on Aristotle on Self-Knowledge". Aristotle's Metaphysics - Yesterday and Today, Falconara, Sicily.

04/27 2018: "Meta Logou in Platons Theaitetos". Universität Heidelberg.

05/27 2017: "Generic Mechanisms" (with Catherine Stinson). Congress, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Toronto.

04/21 2017: "Lichtenberg's Point." The Cogito -- Yes or No?, Ligerz, Switzerland.

11/05 2016: "Self-Knowledge by Participation." American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2016 Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

10/29 2016: "Self-Knowledge and Rational Capacities." 34th Annual Joint Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy and the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science, Fordham University, New York.

04/08 2016:  "Über die 'Ursachen' von Texten." Conference: Die Vierursachenlehre des Aristoteles als Grundlage für Hermeneutiken, Passau.

10/15 2015: "The Man Without Properties." Colloquium, Queen's University, Kingston ON.

10/22 2013: "Instance is the Converse of Aspect." Workshop: Themes from Baxter II, Ligerz, Switzerland.

07/18 2013:  "Aristoteles' Beschreibung der ethischen Tugenden." Workshop: Lebensform und Praxisform, Darmstadt.

02/25 2013:  "Was in uns geschieht, insofern es uns bewusst ist." Berufungsverfahren (job talk): Geschichte der Philosophie, Universität Basel.

02/19 2013: "On What A Virtue Is." Job talk, Ryerson University, Toronto.

10/17 2012:  "Insofern wir Bewusstsein davon haben." Berufungsverfahren (job talk): Theoretische Philosophie, Universität Jena.

02/08 2012:  "Platons Zutatenprinzip." Berufungsverfahren (job talk): Antike Philosophie, Universität Tübingen.

06/20 2011:  "Der Stagirit ohne Eigenschaften." Institut für Philosophie, HU Berlin.

05/25 2011:  "Die Vier Ursachen." Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Göttingen.

05/13 2011: "Descartes on Thought - Bresser on Moral Agency." Workshop: Early Modern Concepts of Consciousness, HU Berlin, May 14-15.

04/17 2011: "Two Kinds of Matter." Workshop: Form and Matter in Kant and Aristotle, Chicago, April 15-17.

04/06 2011: "Two Epistemic Directions of Fit." J.L. Austin Centenary Conference, Lancaster University, April 5-7.

02/04 2011: "The notion of consciousness as Descartes (might have) encountered it," LMU München.

06/26 2010: "Aristotle's Argument Against Functionalism" (with Catherine Stinson), HOPOS, Budapest, June 24-27.

12/10 2009: "Suches", Philosophy Department, University of Pittsburgh.

04/08 2009:  "Eine Verteidigung des typologischen Artbegriffs." Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig.

06/19 2008: "Consciousness as Spontaneous Knowledge." Workshop: The Concept of Mind from Descartes to Hume, Prague, June 19-21.

05/21 2008:  "Verursachung." Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig.

03/26 2008: "Causation and the Unity of Events." Annual BSHP Spring Conference "Causation 1500-2000," University of York, March 25-27.

03/19 2008: "Virtues and Intentions." Conference: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, March 19-20.

11/16 2007: "Austin Explains Kant: The direction of fit and the Copernican turn." Philosophy Department, University of Pittsburgh.

06/20 2007:  "Absichten und Tugenden." Institut für Philosophie, Universität Rostock.

05/21 2007: "The Immaterial Substance." Conference: Descartes and Contemporary Philosophy, Samobor (Croatia), May 20-23.

04/14 2007: "Final Causes and Practical Inference." 2nd Workshop on Causality and Motivation, April 13-14, Rome.

03/31 2007: "On Reducing Final Causes." 2e Congrès de la Société de philosophie des sciences, March 29-31, Genève.

03/28 2007: "The Inner Man as Substantial Form." First International ESEMP Congress, March 26-30, Essen.

02/06 2007:  "Inwiefern der Geist eine immaterielle Substanz ist." Institut für Philosophie, Universität des Saarlandes.

01/26 2007: "Matter in Z3." Conference: Aristotelian Encounters, January 26-27, Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg, The Netherlands.

01/17 2007:  "Finalursachen." Department Philosophie, Universität Hamburg.

09/25 2006:   "Korrigierbarkeit als das Merkmal des Mentalen." Jahresversammlung der Görres Gesellschaft, Sektion Philosophie, September 23-27, Regensburg.

08/11 2006: "Al-Ghazali on the Incoherence of 'Substance'." 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, August 6-12.

04/04 2006: "Final Causes." Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

10/26 2005: "Corrigibility as the Mark of the Mental." Center for Cognitive Science, SUNY Buffalo.

10/01 2005: "Documents." Topics in Ontology, SUNY Buffalo.

08/10 2005: "Temporal Extension." 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, August 6-13.

06/04 2005: "Functional Reasoning." Workshop: Norms, Reasoning and Knowledge in Technology, Boxmeer, the Netherlands, June 3-4.

05/26 2005: "No Identity without Agency." Identity: Ontological Perspectives, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, May 25-27.

05/22 2005: "Complex Procedures Instantiated by their Proper Parts." 7th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, Corfu, Greece.

01/22 2005: "Parts of Processes." Aspects of Mereotopology and Granularity in Bioontologies, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, January 21-22.

01/13 2005:  "Conscientia bei Descartes." Workshop: Philosophische Theorien des Geistes in der Frühen Neuzeit, Heidelberg, January 13-15.

06/01 2004:  "Practical Knowledge." Institut für Philosophie, HU Berlin.

10/20 2004:   "Teleologie und Praxis." Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig