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  • Home
  • Classes
    • Visual Signs
    • Computational Theory of Mind
    • Introduction to Philosophy of Mind
  • Seminars
    • Mental Iconicity (2026)
    • Mental Iconicity (2023)
    • Visual Signs (2023)
    • Emotions and their Expression (2022)
    • Non-Linguistic Representation (2021)
    • Visual Narrative (2020)
    • Visual Objects (2018)
    • Indexicality (2018)
    • Naturalizing Intentionality (2017)
    • Iconic/Symbolic (2015)
    • Pictorial Semantics (2013)
    • The Semantics of Irreality (2013)
    • Computation &Cognition (2012)
  • Workshops
    • Visual Narrative (2012)
    • Iconicity (2015)
    • SLIME 1 (2022)
    • SLIME 2 (2023)
    • Iconicity and Cognition (2023)

Presentations

​2023 "Iconic Computation" 
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Handout
2023 Seminar in Logic and Formal Philosophy, Stanford 10.18.23

​2023 "Pictures in the head"
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2023 Iconicity and Cognition Workshop, CSLI, Stanford, 9.21.23

2023 "Chaos Cinema and Coherence Cinema" 
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2023 Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, UNC, Wilmington, 6.3.23

​2023 "The Structure of Visual Content"
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Handout
2023 Symposium on the syntax of consciousness, CPA, Toronto, 5.29.23
2018 Workshop on Non-propositional Intentionality, ANU, Canberra, 7.3.18
2018 Philosophy MountainWorkshop, Telluride, 3.2.18
2018 Symposium: Varieties of Mental Representation, Eastern APA, 1.6.18
2017 Perception Conference in Paris, Institut Jean-Nicod, 7.10.17
2017 Mind and Language Conference, University of Turin, 7.5.17
2016 Guest lecture, Philippe Schlenker’s graduate course on sign language and gesture, NYU, 9.26.16
2016 Pictures and Propositions Conference, London Aesthetics Forum, 6.14.16

​2022 "Visual Representation"

2022 ​"Visual Semantics"
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2022 Super Semantics workshop, CreteLing, Crete, 7.20.22 

2022 "The Tree of Meaning” (with Sam Cumming)
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Video
2022 SLIME Workshop, UCLA, 6.11.22

2022 "Comments on Mariela Aguilera’s ‘Journey planning: A cartography of practical reasoning’ "
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​2022 Mental Format Workshop, York University 5.4.22

2021 ​"The Iconic-Symbolic Spectrum"
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2021 Philosophy Colloquium, Stanford, 10.22.21
2021 Mind and Language Workshop, University of São Paulo 10.15.21
2020 Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, and the Imagined World Workshop, Princeton 11.6.20
2020 Philosophy Colloquium, Institut Jean Nicod 10.9.20
2019 Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar, Pitzer College 10.14.19

2021 "The Semantics of Face Emoji in Discourse" joint work with Patrick Grosz, Elsi Kaiser, and Christian DeLeon
2021 Colloquium, Super Linguistics Colloquium 1.22.21
2020 UCLA Mind and Language Workshop 12.14.20

2019 ​"Tagging: Semantics at the Iconic/Symbolic Interface"
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Handout
2019 Invited talk, Amsterdam Colloquium, ILLC, 12.20.19

2019 "Orders of Iconicity"
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2019 Workshop on Multi-modal Communication, UConn, 12.15.19 

2019 "Iconicity and Intentionality"
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​Handout
2019 XVIII Congreso Interamericano de Filosofia, Bogota, 10.18.19

2019 ​"World-Icon-Symbol"
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2019 XVIII Inter-American Congress of Philosophy, Bogota, 10.18.19
2019 Philosophy and Cognitive Science Workshop, PUCP, Lima, 4.9.19

2019 "Fregean Particularism and Perceptual Coreference: Comments on Susanna Schellenberg’s The Unity of Perception"
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2019 XVIII Inter-American Congress of Philosophy, Bogota, 10.18.19

2019 ​"Visual Objects"
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Handout
2019 Philosophy Colloquium, Cal Sate LA, 4.9.19
2018 Philosophy Colloquium, Boston University, 12.7.18
2018 Philosophy Colloquium, University of Southern California, 12.3.18
2018 Philosophy Talk, Metaphysics and Mind Group, University of Toronto, 10.11.18
​2018 English-German Picture Theory Group, Dartmouth, 8.22.18

2019 ​"Dynamic Semantics for Moving Pictures" joint work with Sam Cumming, Rory Kelly, and Elsi Kaiser [CV title and presentation title differ]
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​Handout
2019 GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World), Oslo, 5.11.19
2019 Philosophy of Language Workshop, Rutgers, 4.27.19
2018 Special workshop on film, ANU, Canberra, 7.4.18
​2018 Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, Montana State University, 6.15.18

2018 "Axial Symmetry as Focal Point in Spatial Interpretation of Film" (presented by Sam Cumming) joint work with Sam Cumming and Rory Kelly
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2018 Workshop on Non-propositional Intentionality, ANU, Canberra, 7.3.18
2018 Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, Montana State University, 6.15.18

2018 "Semantics of Pictures” and “Semantics of Film"
Slides for "Semantics of Pictures"
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Handout for "Semantics of Pictures"
​Slides for "Semantics of Film"
Handout for ​"Semantics of Film"
2018 Guest speaker (with Neil Cohn), 2-day workshop-tutorial: The formal analysis and semantic interpretation of pictorial representations, UConn 3.16-17.18 

2016 "Content and Target in Pictorial Representation"
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2016 Philosophy Colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis, 9.16.16
2016 Philosophy Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, 9.2.16
2016 Philosophy Colloquium, Arizona State University, 3.18.16
2016 ​Invited talk, Central APA, 3.3.16

2015 "Systems of Depiction, Systems of Vision"
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Handout
2015 UCLA Iconicity Workshop, 6.6.15
2015 Philosophy Colloquium, UC Riverside, 5.27.15
​2015 Cognitive Science Society Keynote, UCLA, 4.25.15 

2015 ​"The Geometry of Pictorial Representation"
2015 Philosophy Colloquium, UC Davis, 4.24.15

2014 ​"Subjective Point of View in Visual Sequences"
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2014 Society for Philosophy and Psychology, UBC
​2014 Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, Franklin & Marshall College (presented by Sam Cumming) 

2014 "Reference and Predication in Pictorial Representation"
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​Handout
2014 Barnard-Columbia Philosophy of Perception Workshop, 7.26.14 
2014 New Frontiers: Formal Semantics Beyond Spoken Language (with SALT 2014), NYU, 5.28.14
2014 Colloquium, London Aesthetics Forum, 2.19.14
2014 Guest Lecture, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, 2.17.14
2014 Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception Lecture Series, University of Antwerp, 2.13.14
2014 Philosophy Colloquium, Ohio State University, 2.7.14
​2014 Philosophy Colloquium, University of Arizona, 2.4.14
2013 Philosophy Colloquium, University of British Columbia, 9.13.13

2014 "Natural Conventions"
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2014 Meta-Semantics Workshop, Berkeley, 3.9.14

2013 ​"Formal Semiotics"
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2013 ​Workshop on Perception and the Humanities, UCSD

2013 ​"Conventions of Viewpoint Coherence in Film" j​oint work with Sam Cumming and Rory Kelly
2013 Workshop on Perception and Speech Acts, University of Oslo
2012 Communicative Acts Conference, Cornell University
2012 Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, Sarah Lawrence College
2012 Semantics Workshop, UCLA
2012 Literature and Cognition Symposium, Haverford College (“The Mathematical Logic of Comics”)

2013 ​"Comments on Philippe Schlenker’s ‘Anaphora: Insights from Sign Language’ "
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​Handout​
2013 Annual Semantics Workshop, Rutgers

2013 "Comments on Christy Mag Huidir’s ‘Art, Metaphysics, and the Paradox of Standards’ "
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2013 American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Conference

2012 "Pictorial Semantics"
Handout
2012 Guest Lecture, Philippe Schlenker’s graduate course on sign language semantics, NYU
2010 American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division
2010 Context and Meaning Summer School, Central European University, Budapest
2010 Department of Philosophy Colloquium, University of Johannesburg

2012 "Turing’s New Machine"
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2012 Brainstorming Turing: Celebrating Alan Turing, UCLA

2012 "Iconic and Symbolic Representation" ​ [CV title and handout title differ]
Handout
2012 Albritton Society, UCLA, 2012
2010 Putney Public Library, Putney, Vermont
2009 Philosophy Grad-Talks, Rutgers University

2011 ​"The Geometrical Projection Theory of Depiction"
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2011 American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division

2011 "Beyond Resemblance"
Handout
2011 Department of Philosophy Colloquium, UCLA
2010 Philosophy Grad-Talks, Rutgers University
​2009 Hoernle Seminar, Department of Philosophy Witwatersrand Universtiy, Johannesburg
2009 Guest Lecture, Peter Kivy’s Aesthetics graduate seminar, Rutgers University 

2009 "An Argument for the Strict Analysis of Subjunctive Conditionals"
Handout
2009 Conditionals Summer School, Central European University, Budapest

2009 "Tagging: the Semantics of Words in Pictures" [CV title and poster title differ]
Poster
2009 Aesthetics reading group, Central European University, Budapest
​2009 IGERT Perceptual Science poster session, Rutgers University

​2008 "The Problem of Forgetting"
Handout
2008 Lund-Rutgers Graduate Philosophy Conference, Lund University, Sweden

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    • Non-Linguistic Representation (2021)
    • Visual Narrative (2020)
    • Visual Objects (2018)
    • Indexicality (2018)
    • Naturalizing Intentionality (2017)
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    • Pictorial Semantics (2013)
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    • Iconicity (2015)
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