Audio recordings, slides, papers, and/or handouts are available for most of these talks. Please reach out to me for access to them.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations: Recent and Upcoming
Group Flow as Spontaneous Collective Agency: A Phenomenological Account
When a philosophical debate goes well, the conversation spontaneously takes on a life of its own. Participants experience… read more
Experience For Its Own Sake: Towards a Phenomenology of Autotelic Experience and Well-being
In this talk, I argue that understanding well-being is a phenomenological problem since the inherent normativity of states of well-being can be elucidated through phenomenological description. Moreover, I provide… read more
Self-Shaping Actions: A Phenomenological Account of Flow States
The flow state has been a subject of increasing interest in positive psychology and the philosophy of agency. In psychology, flow is described as an autotelic state (i.e. as intrinsically rewarding). Moreover,… read more
In the debate between realists and illusionists, one theorist’s datum is oftentimes another theorist’s fiction. On the one hand,… read more
The pervasive use of images and diagrams in science has recently garnered a great deal of debate in the literature on scientific representation. Bechtel et al. (2013) argue that… read more
Workshop Presentations
Collective Agency in Group Flow States: A Phenomenological Account
This presentation motivates a Merleau-Ponty-inspired phenomenological account of collective agency in group flow states. It does so by… read more
Can AI Be Transcendental Subjects? A Husserlian Perspective
In my talk, I built on Johannes Jaeger’s recent (2024) argument that current LLMs do not meet the criteria for agency identified by enactive cognitive science. I argued that,… read more