Consciousness” Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 11, 2008. “Representational Theories of Consciousness,” presented at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, November 9, 2007. “Visual Agnosia and Higher-Order Thought Theory” presented at the eleventh annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Las Vegas NV, June 23, 2007. Comments on Bryce Huebner’s “If you like pina coladas…” presented at a Philosophy of Mind Colloquium, Pacific Division APA Meetings, San Francisco CA, April 6, 2007. “Representational Theories of Consciousness,” Indiana University, Bloomington IN, November 8, 2006. “Four Theses on Peripheral Awareness,” presented at the “Toward a Science of Consciousness” Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 4, 2006. “Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness” presented at the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion Group Meeting, Eastern Division APA Meetings, New York City, December 28, 2005. “Higher-Order Representational Theories of Consciousness,” presented at the University of Mississippi, Oxford MS, November 10, 2005. Participant/Discussion Panelist at the Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN) Conference on Consciousness, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY, July 28-30, 2005. “Between Pure Self-Referentialism and the (Extrinsic) HOT Theory of Consciousness,” presented at a CUNY – Graduate Center Colloquium, New York City, April 6, 2005. Comments/Discussion on Uriah Kriegel’s “An Ontological Assay on Consciousness,” presented at “Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness,” University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, March 19, 2005. “Higher-Order Thoughts and Misrepresentation,” presented at the “Toward a Science of Consciousness” Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 10, 2004. “Higher-Order Thoughts, Animal Consciousness, and Misrepresentation: A Reply to Carruthers and Levine,” presented at the Graduate Center – CUNY, New York City, July 10, 2003. “Carruthers on Animal Consciousness and the Dispositional HOT Theory,”
presented at the seventh annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific of Consciousness, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, June 2, 2003. “The HOT Theory of Consciousness: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?” presented at the Central APA Meetings in Cleveland, Ohio, April 26, 2003. “The HOT Theory of Consciousness: Between a Rock and a Hard presented at the “Toward a Science of Consciousness” Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 9, 2002. “Jean-Paul Sartre and the HOT Theory of Consciousness,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke University, May 28, 2001. “The Unity of Mind, Everyday Memory Failures, and Slips of Action,” (poster) presentation (with Douglas Herrmann) at the fifth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke University, May 2001. “Fiction, Pleasurable Tragedy, and the HOT Theory of Consciousness,” presented at the “Toward a Science of Consciousness” Conference in Tucson, Arizona, 14, 2000. “The Problem of Other Minds,” presented at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (as part of a Symposium entitled "Other Minds: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives"), Louisville, Kentucky, April 1, 1999. “The Problem of Other Minds,” presented at a Colloquium, Department of Psychology, Indiana State University, October 1, 1998. “Consciousness: The Binding Problem,” presented at a Minisymposium on Aspects of Complexity, Indiana State University, March 19, 1998. “Kant and the Higher-Order Thought Theory of Consciousness,” presented to faculty and graduate students at Syracuse University on January 7, 1994. “On The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Weakness of Will,” presented to faculty and students at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York, November 7, 1991. Local Presentations: “Economic Justice: What is the Proper Role of Government?” presented at an Institute of Management Accountants meeting, Evansville IN, September 14, 2011.
“Economic Justice: What is the Proper Role of Government?” presented at the Holiday Retirement Village, Evansville IN, March 10, 2011. Series of Four Lectures on the “Mind-Body Problem,” sponsored by the Dewey Institute for Lifelong Learning, Indiana State University, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 2005. Presenter/Discussion Panelist, Two-Hour Debate on the Existence of God, Indiana State University, February 10, 2005. Presented comments at a on Censorship in the Arts" and then participated in the discussion panel, Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana, October 16, 1996. Work in Progress: “Consciousness and Freedom of Will” “HOT Theory and Anesthesia” “Temporality and Consciousness” “Schizophrenia, Inserted Thoughts, and Higher-Order Thoughts” “Did Spinoza have a Theory of Consciousness?” Conference Sessions Chaired: A session on Metaphysics at the Central States Philosophical Association Meeting, Wayne State University, Detroit MI, September 24, 2010. A two-hour Philosophy session at the eleventh annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Las Vegas NV, June 23 2007. Speakers included Eric Schwitzgebel and Elisabeth Pacherie. A three-hour session on “Qualitative Dimensions of Mind” at the Eastern Division APA Meetings, New York City, December 30, 2005. Participants included Peter Ross, Murat Aydede, and Brian Keeley. “Philosophy of Mind” Colloquium at the Central Division APA Meetings, Chicago, IL, April 23, 2004. Speaker: Janice Dowell; Commentator: Daniel Stoljar. “Baseball and Mythic Experience,” Conference on Baseball in Literature and