Talks

Upcoming Talks

November 15, 2021
“TBD”
World Philosophy Day
Mercy College
Virtual presentation, due to COVID-19

August 2022
“Epistemic Injustice and Informed Consent in Psychiatry”
34th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH) Diversity and Bioethics
Warsaw, Poland

Past Talks

June 19-21, 2020
“Epistemic Injustice and Informed Consent in Psychiatry”
International Association of Bioethics World Congress of Bioethics (WCB)
Virtual presentation, due to COVID-19

January 16, 2020
“Germline Gene Editing and the Limits of Informed Consent”
Ethics Research Seminar
Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET), Jagiellonian University
Kraków, Poland

October 31, 2019
“Informed Consent and Psychiatric Disorder”
Medical Practice and Epistemic Injustice Workshop
CUNY Graduate Center
New York, NY

October 22, 2019
“Epistemic Injustice and Informed Consent in Psychiatry”
21st Annual Conference of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry ‘Experts in Mental Health’
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw, Poland

October 10, 2019
“Problem Statement – Access/Equity/Affordability”
Gene Therapies – Bioethics Challenges and Solutions Closed Workshop
New York Academy of Sciences
New York, NY

July 10, 2019
“Informed Consent in Psychiatry: Some (Very) Preliminary Thoughts”
USS-SWC Univie Summer School – Scientific World Conceptions Student Presentation
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

April 9, 2019
“Future Perfect? CRISPR and its Discontents”
Bioethics Club/Philosophy Colloquium Talk
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ

February 3, 2019
“Future Perfect? CRISPR and its Discontents”
“The Dilemma Series – Duty to Report”
A Night of Philosophy and Ideas
Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Brooklyn, NY

November 10, 2018
“Gene Drives and Genome Modification in Non-Human Animals”
Irish Philosophy Annual Conference on Themes from Ethics
In Conjunction with
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland

June 28, 2018
“Gene Drives and Genome Modification in Non-Human Animals: A Concern for Informed Consent?”
International Bioethics Retreat
Columbia University Global Centers – Europe
Paris, France

April 19, 2018
“Editing the Genome–How CRISPR/CAS9 is Changing the Game”
Philosophy in the Library: The Ethics of Emerging Technologies
Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn, NY

April 13, 2018
“Gene Drives and Genome Modification in Non-Human Animals: A Concern for Informed Consent?”
Bioethics and Applied Philosophy: York University’s 10th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference
Toronto, ON, Canada

January 27, 2018
“The Dilemma Series – Drawing the Line”
A Night of Philosophy and Ideas
Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Brooklyn, NY

August 20, 2017
“Germline Modification and Gene Drives: A Concern for Informed Consent?”
Genome Editing: Biomedical and Ethical Perspectives International Conference
The Center for the Study of Bioethics, The Division of Medical Ethics in NYU
School of Medicine’s Department of Population Health and The Hastings Center
Belgrade, Serbia

August 14, 2017
“The Moralizing Effect: Self-Directed Emotions and Responsibility Attributions”
(with Elisabetta Sirgiovanni, Ben Abelson, and Taylor Webb)
25th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
(ESPP)
Hertfordshire, UK

May 28, 2017
“The Blame Game: Multiple Perspectives on Moral Judgment” Symposium Panelist
(with Elisabetta Sirgiovanni, Ben Abelson, and Taylor Webb)
29th Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention
Boston, MA

April 18, 2017
“CRISPR/CAS9 – Novel ethical issues in germline modification”
Nassau Community College, Philosophy Club
Garden City, NY

March 22, 2017
“Are Guilt and Shame Moral or Moralizing Emotions?” (with Elisabetta Sirgiovanni,
Ben Abelson, and Taylor Webb)
2017 Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP) Annual Meeting
Savannah, GA

January 4, 2017
“Are Contaminated Intuitions Bad Intuitions?”
“Are Guilt and Shame Moral or Moralizing Emotions?” (with Elisabetta Sirgiovanni,
Ben Abelson, and Taylor Webb)
2017 Hawaii University International Conferences on Arts, Humanities, Social
Sciences and Education
Honolulu, HI

October 17, 2016
“The Non-Identity Problem and Historical Injustice: A Non-Problem for Reparations”
Social and Political Philosophy (SPP) Workshop
The City University of New York, Graduate Center
New York, NY

April 11, 2016
“CRISPR/CAS9 – Novel ethical issues in germline modification”
Molecular Coevolution: Lessons from Pathogen-Immune System Interactions
Workshop
Princeton University, Princeton Center for Theoretical Sciences (PCTS)
Princeton, NJ

November 14, 2015
“Panel V: Editing the Human Germline ~ The Promise and the Peril” Panelist
2015 Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) and Boston
University School of Medicine
Boston, MA

September 25, 2015
“Dimensions of Moral Identity and Social Inequality: An International and
Interdisciplinary Perspective”
Early Research and Scholarship Conference
The City University of New York, Graduate Center
New York, NY

December 5, 2008
“From Descartes to Derrida: The Changing Ontological Status of the Animal, from
Bête-Machine to Animot”
“Human Worlds/Animal Worlds” Graduate Student Conference
Columbia University, Center for Archaeology
New York, NY

Second photo credit: Ian Olasov