Recent Travel, Talks, and Interviews
“On the Argument from Bidirectionality” for the 2024 Kentucky Philosophical Association (KPA 2024) meeting at Western Kentucky University. April 27th, 2024: (Webpage)
“Design in Reduction: The Case of Quantum Mechanics” for the University of Notre Dame History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference Unity & Diversity in Science: Philosophical, Historical, and Theological Perspectives. April 4th to April 6th, 2024: (Webpage)
“Who’s Afraid of Causation in Fundamental Science?” for 2023 Causal Inference: Current Trends and the Future of Research” Workshop May 4th, 2023, Department of Economics, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Conference was from May 4th to May 5th, 2023): (Webpage)
“Hamilton, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Causation” for the 2023 North Carolina Philosophical Society Conference at Duke University, March 4th, 2023.
“Introducing the Arrow of Time Puzzle” for the Pittsburgh Summer Program, Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, July 11th, 2022.
“The Arrow of Time Problem and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics: A Summary of a Reassessment” Panel Discussion at the Inaugural Conference of the Illinois Center for the Advanced Studies of the Universe, Thursday, May 19th, 2022 at the University of Illinois (Conference Program Here)
“Poincaré, Poincaré Recurrence, and the H-Theorem: A Continued Reassessment of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics” for the Ohio Philosophical Association Conference at the University of Akron to be presented on April 23rd, 2022.
“Dark Matter and Even Darker Explanations” Mini-Symposium on Dark Matter, Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe, October 29th, 2021.
“Introducing the Arrow of Time Puzzle” at the Pittsburgh Summer Program, Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh July 15th (2:15 pm to 4:30 pm Eastern (Pittsburgh) Time) via Zoom.
Interviewed by Jessica Raley for the Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign posted May 19th, 2021 (webpage)
“Design in Reduction: The Case of (Non-Relativistic) Quantum Mechanics” presented (via Zoom) for the Princeton University Project in Philosophy of Religion and the Rutgers University Center for Philosophy of Religion Incubator conference on May 17th-May 18th, 2021. (webpage)
“Hamilton, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Causation” presented (via Zoom) for the Southern California Philosophy of Physics group, May 1st, 2021. (webpage)
“Hamilton, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Causation” presented (via Zoom) as part of the “Time and Causation” Symposium at the Pacific APA, April 9th, 2021 with commentary by Ned Hall (Harvard University) (webpage)
“Hamilton, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Causation” presented (via Zoom) for the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, April 2nd, 2021.
“Hamilton, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Causation” presented (via Zoom) for the California Institute of Technology, Philosophy of Physics Reading Group, November 4th, 2020.
“On the Epistemological Isolation (and Debunking) Objection to Causal Hyperrealism” to be presented as part of the “Epistemological Challenges in Causation and Time” Symposium at the Pacific APA, April 8th-12th, 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
“In Praise of Clausius Entropy: Reassessing the Foundations of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics” to be presented at the University of Illinois Department of Physics colloquium on January 29th, 2020
“In Praise of Clausius Entropy: Reassessing the Foundations of Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics” at New York University (NYU), November 13th, 2019 for the NY/NJ (or Metro Area) Philosophy of Science Group (website)
“Design in Reduction: The Case of (Non-Relativistic) Quantum Mechanics” at The Ohio State University, Philosophy Department September 21st, 2018
“Design in Reduction: The Case of (Non-Relativistic) Quantum Mechanics” at the University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy Department, September 14th, 2018
“QED, QCD, and Causal Direction" at The History and Metaphysics of the Laws of Nature Conference at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, July 12th to July 14th, 2018 (webpage).
Three Summer School Presentations at the Central European University Summer School on the History and Metaphysics of the Laws of Nature (webpage) in Budapest, Hungary, July 2nd to July 10th, 2018.
My three talks were:
Talk #1: Foster and Laws of Nature: God, Laws, and the Problem of Induction
Talk #2: Cartwright and Capacities: Laws and Lies?
Talk #3: On the Argument from Physics and General Relativity
“On the Argument from Physics and General Relativity” at Mississippi State University by invitation of the Philosophy Department, Fall 2017 “In Defense of the Causal Relation” at the University of Mississippi by invitation of the Philosophy Department, Fall 2017
“The Price-Weslake Objection” at Baylor University by invitation of the Philosophy Department, Waco, TX: March 14th, 2017
“The Brute Asymmetry of Causation” at the 6th Midwest Annual Workshop in Metaphysics (MAWM) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on October 14th and 15th,2016. (webpage)
“The Argument from Metaphysical Teleology” at the Rutgers Mini-Conference: Multiverse, Theodicy, and Fine-Tuning at Rutgers University, New Brunswick on June 10th and 11th, 2016. (webpage)
“Fundamental Causation” at the Central APA, St. Louis, MO: February 18th to February 21st, 2015.
“Against Causal Reductionism” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by invitation of the Philosophy Department, Urbana, IL: February 16th, 2015.
“Against Causal Reductionism” at Yale University by invitation of the Philosophy Department, New Haven, CT: February 2nd, 2015.
“Against Causal Reductionism” at the Eastern APA, Philadelphia, PA: December 27th to December 30th, 2014.
“Yet Another New Cosmological Argument” at the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, the University of British Columbia, Canada: October 3rd to October 5th,2014.
Attended Cosmology Conference in Tenerife, Spain. September 12th to September 26th, 2014. (webpage)
“A Church-Fitch Proof for the Universality of Causation” at the 2012 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, the University of Sterling, Scotland: July 6th to 8th, 2012.
“Compositional Reductionism and Semantic Anti-Reductionism” at the Metaphysics of Science Conference, the University of Melbourne, Australia: July 3rd to July 5th, 2009.