talks

Mar 9, 2020 talk	Flourishing With Emerging Technologies (abstract) HPS Research Seminar Series, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dec 3-4, 2019 conference paper	Four Loci of Agential Intervention: Putting neuro-interventions in their place (abstract) Neuroscience and Society conference, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Oct 10, 2019 talk	Preserving the excised genitals of transgender patients and other moral conundrums in psychiatry and medicine (abstract) Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Sep 13, 2018 departmental seminar, w/ Emma A. Jane	Interrogating Incongruence in Psychiatric Categories for Transgender People Department of Philosophy, Victoria University Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Aug 25, 2018 conference paper, w/ Nick Agar and Emma A. Jane	Blockchain and Determinism NEUROSCIENCE & SOCIETY: Ethics, Law and Technology conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Aug 21, 2018 conference paper, co-authored w/ Emma A. Jane	Interrogating Incongruence in Psychiatric Categories for Transgender People “Cognition, Culture and Mental Illness conference, Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Aug 10, 2018 departmental seminar, co-authored w/ Emma A. Jane	Reducing incongruence or eliminating diversity? On the political ramifications of cross-sex hormone treatment and gender confirmation surgery (abstract) Department of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University, NSW, Australia
May 22, 2018 talk	THAT’S NUTS: Preserving the excised genitals of transgender patients and other moral conundrums in psychiatry and medicine (abstract) The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 761 Darling Street, Rozelle, NSW, Australia
May 16, 2018 departmental seminar	Conscience, Immutability, and Neuro-Interventions (abstract) School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
April 5-6, 2018 conference paper	Diachronic Capacitarian Compatibilism: on responsibility, capacity, and fairness (abstract) Conference on “Law, Science and Rationality”, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
January 29, 2018 conference paper	Moral Enhancement and Moral Perfection in Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” (abstract) From human to posthuman? Ethical inquiries regarding the radical transformation of human beings into different kinds of beings, Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich, Switzerland
September 14-15, 2017 conference paper	Moral Enhancement and Moral Progress: Compatibilist Concerns Neuroscience and Society: Ethical, Legal & Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia
August 29, 2017 departmental seminar	Moral Enhancement and Moral Progress Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
August 25, 2017 seminar paper	Cognitive Enhancement: Negligence, Workplace, and Regulation Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
July 1 – 6, 2017 conference paper	Cognitive Enhancement: A Social Experiment With Technology Australasian Association of Philosophy conference, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
July 31 – August 7, 2016 conference paper	Outsmarted Enhancing Life Project meeting, Berlin, Germany
July 10-15, 2016 conference paper	What Goes, When Anything Goes? Brains, Norms, and Neuro-Interventions. Designing Moral Technologies: Theoretical, Practical, and Ethical Issues conference, Monte Verità, Switzerland
June 3-5, 2016 conference paper	No Justice Without Retribution Justice Without Retribution conference, Cornell, NY
May 20-21, 2016 conference paper	Cognitive Enhancement and Control of Emerging Technologies Ethics and The Brain conference Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, Flint, MI, USA
May 16-17, 2016 conference paper	Goldilocks Theory of Moral Enhancement Human Flourishing in The Age of Gene Editing conference The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY
March 19-21, 2016 conference paper	What Goes, When Anything Goes? Brains, Norms, and Neuro-Interventions. The Ethical Use of Emerging Technologies conference The University of Queensland, St. Lucia Campus, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
January 18-20, 2016 conference paper	The End of Moral Enhancement 4th Australasian Workshop on Moral Philosophy, Kioloa, NSW, Australia
January 7-8, 2016 conference paper	Moral Agency and Moral Enhancement Human Enhancement and The Law: Regulating for the Future conference, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
November 13-14, 2015 conference paper	Why Capacity Matters: The fairness of treating people like that like that for that Gothenburg Workshop on Neuroscience and Responsibility, Gothenburg, Sweden
October 29-30, 2015 invited speaker	BEYOND THE DICHOTOMIES: On Madness vs Badness and Treatment vs Punishment Criminal Responsibility and Neuroscience conference, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
September 22, 2015 talk	Neuroenhancement Women Inspire forum Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
August 20-22, 2015 keynote speaker, co-authored w/ Emma A. Jane	Outsmarted: Cognitive Enhancement and the Unexpected Consequences of Emerging Technologies Experimenting With New Technologies in Society conference Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
August 7, 2015 talk, co-authored w/ Emma A. Jane	Outsmarted: Cognitive Enhancement and the Unexpected Consequences of Emerging Technologies Enhancing Life Project workshop Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada
July 5-9, 2015 conference paper, co-authored w/ Emma A. Jane	Outsmarted: Cognitive Enhancement and the Unexpected Consequences of Emerging Technologies Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
June 25, 2015 invited speaker	Discerning Madness from Badness Neuroscience in Australian Courtrooms: Responsibility, Liability and the Capacity to Punish Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
June 18, 2015 lecture, w/ Emma A. Jane	Enhancing The Brain Neuroethics Thought Experiments series hosted by the St James Ethics Centre Level 1, Legion House, 161 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
June 9, 2015 invited speaker	Cognitive Enhancement: Should I prescribe? Should I use? Plunkett Centre for Ethics, Australian Catholic University St Vincent’s Hospital, Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
June 4, 2015 lecture	Happiness and The Brain Neuroethics Thought Experiments series hosted by the St James Ethics Centre Level 1, Legion House, 161 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
May 28, 2015 lecture	Love and The Brain Neuroethics Thought Experiments series hosted by the St James Ethics Centre Level 1, Legion House, 161 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
April 1, 2015 invited speaker	Why Capacity Matters: the fairness of treating people like that like that for that Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
March 31, 2015 conference paper	Enhancement, Side Effects, and Agency Faster, Higher, Smarter? Psychological and Moral Aspects of Stimulant Use and Abuse conference Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
March 27, 2015 conference paper	Discerning Madness from Badness Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Moral Responsibility conference Utah Valley University Orem, UT, USA
March 2, 2015 public lecture	Neuroenhancement: blessing or curse? Millsaps College Jackson, MS, USA
February 28, 2015 public lecture	Criminal Punishment and Brain Interventions TEDxEmory 2015, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
February 21, 2015 conference paper, co-authored w/ Emma A. Jane	Should we fear the new ‘normal’? Panel on Moral Enhancement: A Critical Assessment, APA Central Division Meeting St. Louis, MO, USA
December 11, 2014 session chair	Chair of session on Neuroscience and the Self Neuroethics Down Under conference Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
November 20-21, 2014 conference paper	Why mental capacity matters Moral Responsibility: Non-metaphysical Approaches workshop Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
September 14, 2014 session chair	Cognitive Enhancement NEURO-INTERVENTIONS AND THE LAW: Regulating Human Mental Capacity conference Organized by the Atlanta Neuroethics Consortium. Hosted at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
September 13, 2014 panelist	Sessions on Making People Sane Enough for Punishment and Making People Sane Enough for Trial NEURO-INTERVENTIONS AND THE LAW: Regulating Human Mental Capacity conference Organized by the Atlanta Neuroethics Consortium. Hosted at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
September 12, 2014 opening address	Neuro-Interventions, Responsibility, and Mental Capacity NEURO-INTERVENTIONS AND THE LAW: Regulating Human Mental Capacity conference Organized by the Atlanta Neuroethics Consortium. Hosted at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
August 13-15, 2014 conference paper co-authored w/ Emma A. Jane	Should we fear the “new normal”? COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT: Moral, Legal and Scientific Challenges conference Philosophy Section, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
June 6-7, 2014 conference paper	I’m gonna kill the duck-rabbit: discerning madness from badness Law & neuroscience: Revising the legal standard for insanity conference Villa Schifanoia, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
May 2, 2014 workshop talk and participant	Neurolaw Databasing Neurolaw in Australia workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
April 29, 2014 public talk	Can science remove the need for punishment in criminal justice? Shaken and Stirred at Thai Nesia, 243 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia
April 26, 2014 public talk	Enhancement: the new “normal”? TEDxSydney 2014, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW, Australia
April 10, 2014 invited talk	The Burdens of Cognitive Enhancement Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AB, USA
February 28, 2014 co-presenter w/ Jessica Gabel	Brains on Trial 21st Annual Criminal Practice seminar, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
February 6-9, 2014 symposium participant	Speaker at the Punishment! symposium Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, Charleston, SC, USA
November 20, 2013 invited paper	Doing away with capacities: a non-capacitarian compatibilist approach to responsibility Judging Responsibility: in the courtroom, in the lab, and in the armchair conference Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
October 31, 2013 workshop chair	Enhancing Responsibility Project meeting Philosophy Section, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
September 27, 2013 co-chair workshop	Treating the Criminal Offender Brain. Can we? Should we? workshop (PDF Programme) Robina Institute for Criminal Justice, Minneapolis, MN, USA
June 25-27, 2013 workshop chair	Enhancing Responsibility Project meeting Philosophy Section, Faculty of TBM, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
June 9-10, 2013 conference paper w/ Jeanette Kennett and Anke Snoek	Drug Addiction and Criminal Responsibility International conference on LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE: the work of Stephen Morse Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
May 19, 2013 conference paper w/ Gerben Meynen	Sane Enough (For What)? Mental Capacity in Criminal Responsibility and Competence. Philosophical Issues in Crime and Mental Illness conference, San Francisco, CA, USA
May 17, 2013 workshop convenor w/ Hank Greely & Jeanette Kennett	Changing Selves Third Capacity-Character Project workshop hosted by Hank Greely Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, USA
May 4, 2013 invited paper w/ Filippo Santoni de Sio	Responsibility and Capacity in Libertarian and Compatibilist Thinking. Symposium on David Hodgson’s book “Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will” Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Feb 1-2, 2013 invited paper w/ Nadira Faulmüller, Filippo Santoni de Sio & Hannah Maslen	Enhancing Responsibility Interdisciplinary workshop on neuroenhancement Institut für Philosophie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Nov 14, 2012 invited lecture	Enhancing Responsibility University of San Francisco, CA, USA
Nov 8, 2012 invited paper	Restoring Responsibility: Promoting Justice, Therapy and Reform through Direct Brain Interventions Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia
Sep 22-27, 2012 paper	A Compatibilist Theory of Legal Responsibility Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford Law School Stanford, CA, USA
Sep 10-22, 2012 research & collaboration	Meetings of the ER Project team and EANL Delft & Den Haag, The Netherlands
Sep 7-8, 2012 invited paper	Four Challenges For The Conceptual Foundations Of Neurolaw Law and Neuroscience: State of the Art Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, NJ, USA
Jul 24, 2012 co-organiser	*Seminar on “Addiction Neuroethics”* by Adrian Carter & Wayne Hall** Agency and Moral Cognition Network Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Jul 7, 2012 invited lecture	Enhancing Responsibility Blackheath Philosophy Forum Blackheath, NSW, Australia
May-June 2012 research & conferences	Planned research visit to Europe Netherlands & UK
Apr 20, 2012 invited speaker	Topic: Enhancing Responsibility T. C. Beirne School of Law University of Queensland, Australia
Apr 19, 2012 invited speaker	Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility UQ Centre for Clinical Research University of Queensland, Australia
Apr 13, 2012 invited participant	A Compatibilist Theory of Legal Responsibility Workshop on Criminal Responsibility and its History, University of Minnesota Law School Minneapolis, MN, USA
Nov 21, 2011 invited speaker	Cognitive enhancement and responsibility Faculty of Law University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Nov 4, 2011 invited speaker	Legal responsibility adjudication and the normative authority of the mind sciences Law School and Philosophy Department The University of Adelaide, Australia
Sep 4, 2011 conference paper	Cognitive enhancement and responsibility European Congress of Analytic Philosophy 7 Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy
Aug 20, 2011 invited speaker	*Moderate reasons-responsiveness: a diachronic* account** Round table on reasons-responsiveness in relation to moral responsibility Stijlkamer Janskerkhof, Janskerkhof 13, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jul 14-15, 2011 conference paper	Restoring responsibility through direct brain interventions Neurolaw in Australia Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Jul 4-8, 2011 invited speaker	What cognitive enhancement means for legal and moral responsibility Brocher – Hastings Center Summer Academy on Human Enhancement Fondation Brocher, Geneva, Switzerland
Jun 28, 2011 invited speaker	Can drugs make us responsible? Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminal Sciences Universitat Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Jun 23, 2011 conference paper	Can drugs make us responsible? What Makes Us Moral? Conference Faculty of Philosophy, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jun 17, 2011 conference paper w/ Jeanette Kennett	Not skin-deep. Does Botox impair agency-tracking? Agency Tracking and Its Disorders Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Jun 15, 2011 invited speaker	Neurolaw: Themes and Issues The Centre for Legal Governance Seminar Series Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Apr 18-19, 2011 poster	Enhancing Responsibility Responsible Innovation NWO, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Apr 11-12, 2011 conference paper	Capacitarianism, responsibility and restored mental capacities TILTing Perspectives 2011: Technologies on the stand Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Apr 8, 2011 invited speaker	Cognitive enhancement and responsibility Free Will, Responsibility, and Moral Character Faculty of Philosophy, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dec 8, 2010 invited speaker	A Compatibilist Theory of Legal Responsibility Law and the Science of Moral Judgement conference Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Norway.
Nov 18-19, 2010 invited speaker	Neurolaw: themes and issues Meeting of the Agency and Moral Cognition Network Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Oct 15-16, 2010 invited commentator	Strawsonian and Consequentialist Views on Personal Responsibility workshop Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Sep 1-2, 2010 invited speaker	The Restoration and Enhancement of Responsibility Sentenced to treatment: the legitimacy of therapeutic justice and behavior control Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Norway.
Jul 15, 2010 invited speaker	A Compatibilist Theory of Legal Responsibility Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Germany.
Jun 16, 2010 invited lecture	On the Relevance of Neuroscience to Criminal Responsibility Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Download presentation as Quicktime movie.
Mar 24, 2010 invited speaker	On the Relevance of Neuroscience to Criminal Responsibility Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Feb 27, 2010 invited speaker	Enhancing Responsibility Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), University of Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Mar 24, 2010 invited speaker	On the Relevance of Neuroscience to Criminal Responsibility Centre for Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Oct 26-31, 2009 invited speaker	Conceptual and Practical Limitations to the use of Neuroimaging in Informing Responsibility Assessments Law and Neuroscience conference, Marateia, Italy. poster and programme
Oct 20-21, 2009 invited speaker	Cognitive Enhancement and Increased Responsibility Human Enhancement: What should be permitted? symposium Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sep 24-26, 2009 paper presentation	Madness, Badness and Neuroimaging-Based Responsibility Assessments BRAIN matters – New Directions in Neuroethics conference, Halifax, Canada. poster and programme
Aug 24-27, 2009 paper presentation	A Structured Taxonomy of Responsibility Concepts Moral Responsibility: Neuroscience, Organization & Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Aug 20-22, 2009 invited lecture	Thinking About Responsibility IDEA League Summer School: Responsibility and Engineers of the Future Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Jul 6-7, 2009 paper presentation	On The Relevance of Neuroscience to the Law’s Responsibility Practices UCL Law & Neuroscience Colloquium, University College London, London, UK. Download the poster .
Jul 2-4, 2009 paper presentation	History and Meta Task Responsibilities (w/ Jeroen van den Hoven) European Conference on Computing and Philosophy ’09 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
Jun 25, 2009 guest speaker	The neurobiology of crime. What about Responsibility? “Neurobiological Society” seminar Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Apr 29, 2009 guest speaker	Cognitive Enhancement and Increased Responsibility James Martin Advanced Research Seminar University of Oxford, UK.
Mar 17-18, 2009 invited speaker	Brains in Dialogue conference Cambridge, UK.
Nov 21-23, 2008 conference paper	Taking Responsibility for Voluntary Disadvantages The 3rd International Applied Ethics Conference University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan.
Aug 21-26, 2008 conference paper	A Structured Taxonomy of Responsibility Concepts Sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Aug 8, 2008 guest speaker	Functional Neuroimaging and Responsibility Assessments under the Capacity Conception of Responsibility Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Jun 7, 2008 conference paper	Neuroscience and Legal Responsibility International Workshop on Neuroethics Centre for Neurosciences of the RWTH, Aachen, Germany.