Talks, past and present

Links to a PDF of the presentation are included, when possible. Some of the talks are also available as an interactive QuickTime movie. (This allows you to step through the presentation as it was delivered and also allows animations of the simulations to be included.) The source materials for most of the earliest talks have been lost.

2022

2019

  • “Group Agency and the Dynamics of Intragroup Deliberation,” an invited talk at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universät, 19 June 2019.
  • “Love”, “Belief”, and “Good and Evil”: three different talk/comedy routines as part of the Stand-Up Philosophy event at the Edinburgh Fringe, organised by Charlie Duncan Saffrey. These were held in The Ballroom at venue 170: The Counting House at 3pm on 16, 17, and 18 August 2019.
  • “Heaven on Earth” an invited talk as part of a panel discussion on the nature of morality in HowTheLightGetsIn at the Hay-on-Wye Festival, on 27 May 2019, sponsored by the Institute for Art and Ideas.

  • “How to… Make the Right Decision,” an invited talk at the Hay-on-Wye Festival, 27 May 2019, also sponsored by the Institute for Art and Ideas.

  • Invited workshop on the paper “Collective Responsibility and the Dynamics of Intragroup Deliberation,” (co-authored with Julia Morley), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 10 April 2019.
  • “What is it like to be a philosopher?” invited talk to the Philosophy, Politics and Economics students at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 10 April 2019.

2018

  • Invited talk as part of a Workshop on Logic and Uncertainty, to be held at the Institute for Logic and Cognition at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, May 21-24, 2018. (Not held as the workshop was cancelled.)
  • “Group Agency and the Dynamics of Intragroup Deliberation,” Invited talk as part of a workshop on Topics in Scientific Philosophy, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 23–25 February 2018.

2017

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

  • “Decision Theory Meets the Witch of Agnesi,” British Society for the Philosophy of Science, 18 October 2010.
  • why-the-angels-cannot-choose-presentation “Why the Angels Cannot Choose,” Workshop on Decision Theory, sponsored by the LSE Choice Group.
  • Tutorial on evolutionary game theory, the replicator dynamics, and social networks, as part of Formal Ethics Week at the University of Gronigen. 7 – 10 September 2010.
  • Invited talk in the “Philosophy Meets Economics - Economics Meets Philosophy” conference at the University of Osnabrueck. 13 May - 15 May, 2010.
  • “Decision Theory Meets the Witch of Agnesi,” LSE Philosophy department Popper Seminar, 4 May 2010.
  • “A nudge is not a push,” comments at the LSE Rerum Causae Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, 12 February 2010.

2009

2008

2007

2006

  • “Leaving the State of Nature,” Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Weekend Retreat, London School of Economics, Cumberland Lodge, November 2006.
  • “Artificial Virtue: The Structural Evolution of Morality,” Choice Group, London School of Economics, February 2006.

2005

2004

2003

  • “The Structural Evolution of Morality: Examples and Reflections,” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, December 2003.
  • “Probability and Evolutionary Game Theory,” invited lecture at the 2003 International Summer School in Philosophy, Probability, and the Special Sciences, University of Konstanz, Germany, July 2003.
  • “Local Interaction Models of Evolutionary Games,” STICERD, London School of Economics, May 2003.
  • “Logic and the Philosophy of Social Sciences,” Workshop on Logic and Philosophy, University of Trento, Italy, March 2003.
  • “What We Talk About When We Talk About Morality,” Inaugural Meeting of the Society for Empirical Ethics, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2003.

2002

  • “Random Boolean Networks and Evolutionary Game Theory,” Philosophy of Science Association Eighteenth Biennial Meeting, November 2002.
  • “Can We Differentiate Cultural and Biological Evolution?” Evolutionary Discussion Group, London School of Economics, October 2002.
  • “Bounded Rationality and the Ultimatum Game,” Fourth European Congress on Analytic Philosophy (sponsored by the European Society for Analytic Philosophy), Lund, Sweden, 2002.

2001

  • “Bounded Rationality and the Ultimatum Game,” Choice Colloquium (sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method), London School of Economics,  December 2001.
  • “The Evolution of Cooperation,” Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Weekend Retreat, London School of Economics, Cumberland Lodge, November 2001.
  • “Comments on ‘The Import of Auxiliary Theories of the Instrument: A Bayesian-Network Approach’,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association,  March 2001.

2000

  • “The Evolution of Distributive Justice,” Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, December 2000.
  • “The Evolution of Distributive Justice,” University of California-San Diego, October 2000.
  • “Lattice Models of the Nash and Ultimatum Game,” Computing & Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2000.
  • “Artificial Justice,” Artificial Life VII: The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, August 2000.
  • “The Evolution of Distributive Justice,” Department of Philosophy, University of California-Irvine, July 2000.
  • “Game Theory and Evolutionary Contractarianism,” invited talk sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, Biology, and Mathematics, Lewis & Clark College, January 2000.

1999

  • “The (Spatial) Evolution of the Equal Split,” Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, June 1999.
  • “Bargaining with Neighbors,” (joint presentation with Brian Skyrms), Southern California Economic Theory Conference, February 1999.

1995 (as an undergraduate)

  • “Empirica Mathematica: Kitcher’s Theory of Mathematical Knowledge,” Oregon Academy of Science, Portland, Oregon, 1995.
  • “A Defense of A Priori Mathematical Knowledge,” Northwest Regional Conference of Undergraduate Philosophy, 1995.

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