Invited Talks and Presentations

 (A complete list of invited talks and presentations can be found on my Curriculum Vitae)

Major Invited Lectures 

• Kant Lectures, Stanford University (Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Seminar Discussion), May 2023

• Nelson Distinguished Visitor, Indiana University (week-long visit, public lecture and two seminars), September 2022

• Featured Philosopher, "Moral and Other Relationships: Themes from the Work of R. Jay Wallace", LMU München, June 2022

• Featured Philosopher, Third Annual Gießen Summer School in Philosophy (public lecture and two-day workshop on The Moral Nexus), June 2019

• Featured Philosopher, XVIth Göttingen Colloquium in Philosophy (public lecture and three-day symposium on The Moral Nexus), May 2019

• Keynote Address, Bern-Zürich Workshop on Normative Ethics, June 2018

• Joel Feinberg Lecture, Arizona Workshop on Normative Ethics, January 2018

• Mark Sacks Lecture, European Journal of Philosophy, Frankfurt, June 2017

• Keynote Address, Conference on the Direction of Moral Duties, Simon Fraser University, May 2016

• Carl G. Hempel Lectures (three public lectures), Princeton University, May 2015

• Justus Hartnack Lecture, University of Aarhus, November 2014

• Keynote Address, Society of Applied Philosophy Conference, Oxford, June 2014

• Potsdam Voltaire Lecture, Universität Potsdam, July 2013

• Frankfurt Lectures (two public lectures, one seminar), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, July 2013

• Ethics Lectures (two public lectures), Peking University, Beijing, May 2012

• Keynote Address, 5th Annual Conference on Ethical Theory and Political Philosophy, Northwestern University, May 2011

• Keynote Address, Conference on the Reasons of Love, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, June 2011

• Zeno Lecture, University of Leiden, October 2010

• Closing Plenary Address (“Abschlussvortrag”), Conference of the Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie (GAP), September 2009

• Winchester Lecture, University of Oxford, June 2007

• Three Erskine Lectures, University of Canterbury at Christchurch, Spring 2005

• Keynote Address, British Society for Ethical Theory, Canterbury, September 1998

• Keynote Address, Conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology, Utrecht, June 1998

Some Upcoming Talks and Presentations

• Conference on Relational Ethics and Criminal Law, Universität Freiburg, July 6-8, 2023

• Keynote Address, FSU Conference on Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency, September 29-30, 2023

• Conference on Relational Moral Theory and the Future, Berlin, October 5-7, 2023 

• Conference on Responsibility and Reflection, University of Lund, June 3-5, 2024

• Conference on Reactive Attitudes and the Morality System, Universität Erlangen, June 28-29, 2024

• Workshop with Geoff Sayre-McCord and Michael Smith, Berlin, June 26-27, 2020 (organizer, with Einstein Ethics Group) [indefinitely postponed]

Past Talks and Presentations (since 2010)

• "The Politics of Grievance and Other Pathologies of Influence", Kant Lecture 2, Stanford University , May 2023

• "Resentment and Social Friction: Reactive Blame and its Vicissitudes", Kant Lecture 1, Stanford University, May 2023

• "Why is Everyone So Angry?", PBK Asilomar Conference, February 2023

• Discussion of regret and its implications, Malaysian Philosophy Society's "Big Think Summit", December 2022

• "Morality and the General Regulation of Behavior", Seminar, Indiana University, September 2022; Conference on Moral Contractualism, Universität Zürich, October 2022

• "Reactive Attitudes and Social Power", Seminar, Indiana University, September 2022

• "The Relational Right and the Good", Colloquium Presentation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (25th Kongress), September 2021; Public Lecture, Indiana University, September 2022; Ohio State University, October 2022

• Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for 2019-20, involving 2-day visits to the following American colleges and universities: Hendrix College (September 2019); Saint Joseph’s University (October 2019); Creighton University (October 2019); Kent State University (November 2019); Sewanee-University of the South (April 2021)

• Meeting with Seminar on Relational Morality at Princeton University to discuss The Moral Nexus, May 2020 

• “Social Agency and Relational Obligation”, Conference on Social Agency and Relational Normativity, Universität Wien, June 2019

• “Resentment and Power: On the Social Dynamics of Blame”, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, June 2019; Moral and Political Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Helsinki, November 2020; University of Pittsburgh, November 2020; Zürich Moral Responsibility Speaker Series, March 2021; Invited Symposium, Pacific APA Meetings, April 2021

• Symposia and Workshops on The Moral Nexus: 3-day colloquium in Göttingen, May 2019; 1-day workshop in Tilburg, Holland, June 2019; 2-day summer school in Gießen, June 2019; 1-day workshop and public book launch, King’s College London, July 2019

• “Recognition and the Moral Nexus”, Conference on Recognition and the Second Person, Yale University, September 2018

• “Discretionary Moral Duties”, Joel Feinberg Lecture, Arizona Workshop on Normative Ethics, January 2018; keynote address, Bern-Zürich Workshop on Normative Ethics, June 2018; Universität Essen, July 2018

• “Trust, Anger, Resentment: On Blame and the Economy of Disesteem”, University of London, May 2017; Mark Sacks Lecture, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, June 2017; Betzler Oberseminar, LMU München, June 2017; Ethics, Law, and Society Forum, Sonoma State University, October 2017; New York University, February 2018; Universität Erlangen, June 2018; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, December 2018; University of Toronto Legal Theory Workshop, March 2019; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, May 2019

• Workshop on book manuscript, The Moral Nexus, Berlin, May 2017; Frankfurt, June 2017

• “Moral Address: What It Is, Why It Matters”, Conference on the Philosophy of Gary Watson, New Orleans, November, 2016

• Workshop on The View from Here, University of Amsterdam, September 2016

• Discussion of themes from The View from Here with Winnie Sung, Rutgers Workshop in Chinese Philosophy, April 2016

• “Williams on Ethical Confidence”, Conference on Bernard Williams’s Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Oxford, July 2015

• “Philosophy Talk” program on Regret, March Theater, Berkeley, June 2015 (for broadcast in summer 2015)

• “The Moral Nexus: Toward a Relational Account”, Three Hempel Lectures, Princeton University, May 2015

• “Relational Normativity and the Problem of Moral Obligation”, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane University, March 2015; Philosophy Colloquium, Duke University, April 2015; University of Toronto, December 2015; Conference on The Direction of Moral Duties, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, May 2016; Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, November 2016; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, December 2016

• Seminar on The View from Here, University of Aarhus, Denmark, November 2014

• “Value, Trauma, and the Future of Humanity”, Institute of Philosophical Research, UNAM, Mexico City, October 2014; Justus Hartnack Lecture, University of Aarhus, Denmark, November 2014; Workshop on Moral and Political Philosophy, Harvard University, October 2015

• NOMOS symposium in Valencia, Spain, devoted to The View from Here, June 2014.

• Roundtable on The View from Here (with L. Anderson, Stanford; David Hills, Stanford; N. Kolodny, Berkeley; S. Scheffler, NYU; S. Shiffrin, UCLA), The Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs, U. C. Berkeley, November 2013.

• “A Secular Doctrine of Original Sin”, Public lecture on material from The View from Here, Program for Ethical Enquiry, Brown University, October 2013.

• “Regret, Affirmation, Justification”, Colloquium discussion of material from The View from Here, Program for Ethical Enquiry, Brown University, October 2013.

• “Bilateralität in der Moral”, The Frankfurt Lectures, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, July 2013 (two public lectures, and 1 colloquium discussion of the material); shorter version presented as The Potsdam Voltaire Lecture, Universität Potsdam, July 2013.

• “Normative Interests, Normative Relationships, and the Problem of Promissory Obligation”, Pacific Division Meetings of the APA, San Francisco, March 2013; Keynote Lecture, Society for Applied Philosophy, Oxford, June 2014.

• “The Fugitive Thought: Blackburn on Reasons”, Workshop on Ethical Rationalism, Princeton University, November 2012; University of Tennessee, March 2013.

• “Emotions and Relationships. On a Theme from Strawson”, Conference on Responsibility and Relationships, College of William and Mary, September 2012; Research Seminar, University of Tennessee, March 2013; Johns Hopkins Seminar in Political and Moral Thought, February 2014; Princeton Political Theory Colloquium, February 2014; Philosophy Colloquium, UC Davis, May 2014; Keynote address, Workshop on “Verantwortung, Vorwürfe, Verzeihen”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 2014.

• “A Modest Defense of Regret”, “Abschiedsfest” for Rüdiger Bittner, Bielefeld, July 2012.

• “Regret and the Affirmation of Life: The Bourgeois Predicament”, Ethics Lecture 2, Peking University, Beijing China, May 2012.

• “Regret, Attachment, and Moral Luck”, Ethics Lecture 1, Peking University, Beijing China, May 2012.

• “Agency and Regret”, Pacific APA, April 2012.

• Round Table on Nihilism in Literature and Philosophy, Stanford University, February 2012.

• Three research seminars in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan (“Attachment and the Limits of Regret”; “Regret, Justification, and Moral Luck”; “Regret and the Affirmation of Life: The Bourgeois Predicament”), August 2011.

• “Duties of Love”, Keynote Address, Conference on the Reasons of Love, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May-June 2011; Royal Ethics Conference, University of Texas at Austin, February 2012; Zejiang University, Hangzhou China, May 2012; contribution to symposium (with David Owens) at the joint sessions of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society, July 2012.

• “Rightness and Responsibility”, Keynote Address, 5th Annual Conference on Ethical Theory and Political Philosophy, Northwestern University, May 2011; Hegel-Kongress, Stuttgart, June 2011; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, October 2011; Toronto Legal Theory Workshop, March 2012; Fudan University, Shanghai China, May 2012; USC Law and Philosophy Workshop, October 2012.

• “The Bourgeois Predicament”, Zeno Lecture, University of Leiden, October 2010; Moral Philosophy Seminar, University of Oxford, November 2010; Universität Wien, December 2010; Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, January 2011.