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• Upcoming and Current talks:
• *2025 “Moral Reasoning and the Intrinsic Ethical worth of Literary Art” University of Chicago
• *2025 “Kant and Free Lawfulness” University of Notre Dame
• *2025 “Schiller, Goethe and the role of Aristotelian friendship in the aesthetic state" University of Bonn
• *2025 “Hegel on Freedom as an Active Principle of the Ethical Life" University of Heidelberg
• *2025 “Kant and the Free Lawfulness of Teleological Judgment” University of Mainz
• *2024 “Kant and the normative form of the reflecting power of judgment" University of Tübingen
• 2024 “Is Kant's principle of human dignity absolute?” Immanuel Kant, 300 Years, University of Catania
• *2024 “Activity and Actuality Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind” The Life of the Mind in the History of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
• 2024 “Kant and the Problem of the Idealism of Art” Immanuel Kant 300, University of Warmia & Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
• *2024 “Freedom as Innate Right or as Highest Good: rethinking the modern democratic state” Democracy. Funded by the European Union / Erasmus, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• 2024 "Ethics and AI: differentiating ethical normativity of non-agential mimetic acts from non-self-conscious agency” Virtue Ethics and Technology, KU Leuven
• 2024 "Virtue and Artificial Intelligence" XXVI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Münster
• *2024 “Kant and the Problem of the Idealism of Art: freedom, nature, and the self-legislation of the mind” University of Cambridge

• Select Publications:
• 2025 (forthcoming) Actuality and Freedom: Hegel on Ethical Life (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge elements on Hegel). 
• 2025 (forthcoming) “Hegel and the Role of Literature in Ethical Theory” in Hegel and Literary Studies, edited by Allen Speight.  Cambridge University Press
• 2025 (forthcoming) “Hegel’s Concept of Actuality and the Life of the Mind: Aristotle, Hegel, and self-activity” Notre Dame Studies in the Philosophy of the Life of the Mind, edited by Katharina Kraus and Stephen Ogden. Springer.
• 2025 (forthcoming) “Acts and Agency in Two-Kinds of Artificial Intelligence” special issue Epistemic Identity and Epistemic Virtue: Human Mind and Artificial Intelligence, Vodka Strahovnik and the Centre for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of New Technologies
• 2024. Art, Nature, and Self-formation in the Age of Goethe. Edited by Gerad Gentry, Mattias Pirholt, and Camilla Flodin. Berlin: De Gruyter. 295 pages. 
• 2023. "Hegel's End of Art and the Artwork as an Internally Purposive Whole" Journal of the History of Philosophy, 61(3): 473-498 (open access).
• 2023. "Artworks are Valuable for their own Sake"  Journal of the American Philosophical Association: 9(2): 234-252 (open access)
• 2022. "Pure Synthesis and the Principle of the Synthetic Unity of Apperception" Kant-Studien 113, no. 1: 8-39
• 2022. “Hegel’s Logic of Negation,” in Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, ed. by Moss, Springer: 397-419
• 2021. “The Concept of Life in German Idealism and its Aristotelian Roots” Intellectual History Review 31, no. 3: 379-390. 
• 2021. “Hegel’s Logic of Purposiveness,” Kantian Legacies in German Idealism. In Routledge  Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Routledge: 36-70.
• 2019. “The Ground of Hegel’s Logic of Life and the Unity of Reason: The Free Lawfulness of the Imagination” The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism. Ed. Gerad Gentry and Konstantin Pollok. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 

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