​Organised Conferences

• The Science and Philosophy of the Imagination Conference

          The Centre for Science and Philosophy, University of Bristol, 16th-17th September 2021
          https://sites.google.com/view/science-philosophy-imagination/home
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• Designed Mind Symposium 2017: Reflections on the function, evolution, & implementation of consciousness

          Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, 8-9th November 2017
          Keynote Speakers: Daniel Dennett, Michael Graziano
          http://designedmind.org/

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• Deductive and Mathematical Cognition: Implications for Philosophy
  Philosophy Department, University of Bristol, 7-8th April 2014
  Keynote Speakers: Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Helen De Cruz, Bart Van Kerkhove
  https://sites.google.com/site/bristolconference2014/home

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Previous Conference Talks

• Creative Imagination in the Enculturated Predictive Mind
  with Sam Wilkinson, Art and Affect in the Predictive Mind, University of York, 30th June - 2nd July 2021 (available to watch online here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamVmh_36es)
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• Enculturated Imagination in the Predictive Mind
  3rd Meeting of the Northern Imagination Forum, 26th April 2021, Online, (available to watch online here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGWBQJedqiM)
  
  
• Externalist Naturalism and the Prospect of Artificial Mathematicians
  Mathematics and its Applications: Philosophical Issues Conference, 23-24th September 2019, ​University of Leeds
  
  
• Imagination as Mental Action in the Predictive Mind
  with Sam Wilkinson, Mental and Bodily Actions Conference, 6th-7th July 2019, University of Warwick
  
  
• Embodied Constraints on Imagination
  with Tom Schoonen, Learning from Imagination Conference, 23rd-24th May 2019, University of Leeds​
  
  
• The Origins of Counterfactual Thought (and Why They Matter)
  European Non-Categorical Thinking Project 4th Meeting, 25th March 2019, University of Cambridge
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• Painful Possibilities: An Embodied Predictive Processing Account of Pain Experience
  with Abby Tabor, Reconceiving Cognition Conference, 27-29th June 2018, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  with Chris Burr, Investigating the Mind: Pain, Emotion and Affective Disorders, 8th-10th November 2018, Ruhr-Univerity, Bochum
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• Counterfactual Imagination and Knowledge of Metaphysical Necessity
  Philosophy of Imagination Conference, 15th-16th March 2018, Ruhr-University, Bochum
  
  
• Looking at Numbers: Attention, Affordances, & Arithmetic
  Enactivism, Language, and Mathematics Workshop, 12th–13th June 2017, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
  
  
• Enactivism and Ecological Psychology Discussion Panel
  Probability and Perception Workshop, 11th–12th March 2017, University of California, Berkeley
  
  
• Seeing Numbers as Affordances
  Number in Mind Workshop, February 18th 2017, Institute of Philosophy, London
  
  
• Perceiving the Present by Representing Possible Futures
  Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society: Consciousness & Experiential Psychology Section, 2nd–3rd September 2016, University of Bristol
  
  
• Numerals and Neural Reuse
  Mathematical Cognition and Enculturation Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology, 10th–14th August 2016, St. Andrews
  
  
• Perceiving Reality by Representing Possibilities
  Early Career Mind Network Research Forum, 27th April 2016, University of Warwick
  2nd International Conference on Philosophy of Mind, 21st-22nd September 2016, University of Minho, Braga
  
  
• Active Numerical Perception
  The Cognitive Basis of Logico-Mathematical Knowledge Conference, 16th-17th November 2015, University of Bergen, Bergen
  
  
• The Body as Laboratory (with Christopher Burr)
  The Sensorimotor Theory: Developments and Open Questions workshop, 4th-5th July 2015, Paris
  
  
• An Ecological Approach to Numerical Perception
  Ecological Perception: Amodal and Multimodal Trends conference, 29th-30th May 2015, University of Edinburgh
  
  
• Number Concepts for the Concept Empiricist
  The 9th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Perception and Concepts, 16-18th May 2013, University of Latvia, Riga
  The Bristol-Munich Joint Workshop, 20-22nd July 2013, University of Bristol, Bristol
  The 17th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference, 15th-17th November 2013, University of Oxford, Oxford (with response from Jesse Prinz)
  The Leuven-Bristol Joint Workshop, 20th May 2015, KU Leuven