Presentations

*2025 “Moral Reasoning and the Intrinsic Ethical worth of Literary Art” University of Chicago

*2025 “Kant and the normative form of the reflecting power of judgment” 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 “The Idea of the Good and Ethical Life in Hegel's Philosophy” International Hegel Congress

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” University of Warmia & Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

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 Mind and Artificial Intelligence: differentiating non-agential mimetic acts from non-self-conscious agency" University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany

2024 "Differentiating self-consciousness from artificial general intelligence" XXV World Congress Philosophy Rome

2024 "Acts and Agency in Two-Kinds of Artificial Intelligence," Centre for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of New Technologies, Ljubljana, Slovenia

*2024 “Kant and the Problem of the Idealism of Art: freedom, nature, and the self-legislation of the mind” University of Cambridge

*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 “Kant and the Problem of the Idealism of Art: freedom, nature, and the self-legislation of the mind” workshop, Kant-Forschungsstelle, Mainz

*2023 “Hegel’s Logic of the Idea” Philosophy Colloquium, University of Stuttgart

2022 “Normativity of Aesthetic Judgment & Kant’s Deduction” V-North American Kant Society 

2022 “Purposiveness of Artworks: A Hegelian and Goethean Conception of Art” SGIR, Stockholm

*2022 “Hegel’s End of Art and Artworks as Internally Purposive Wholes” Humboldt-Universität 

2022 “The Emergence of Negation in Hegel’s Science of Logic” SGIR, Berlin

2021 “Is there a Judgment of Art in Kant’s third Critique?” North American Kant Society, USA

*2021 “Hegel’s Logic of Negation” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

*2021 “Is an Artwork an End-in-Itself?” Institutes Colloquium, Universität Mainz 

*2021 “Is There a Judgment of Art in Kant’s third Critique?” Uni-Potsdam Conference on KU  

*2020 “5 Minuten Hegel: Ästhetik des Selbstbewußtseins,” 250th. Hegel, Humboldt-Universität

*2020 “A Principle of Organic Methods of Life” – Lewis Scholars Salon, Chicago

*2019 “Hegel’s Kantian Logic of Purposiveness” Social Thought-Philosophy/Lit, Univ. of Chicago  

*2019 “Pure Synthesis and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception” Univ. of California, San Diego

*2019 Featured Interview – American Philosophical Association (APA) Blog, New York

2019 “Two Critiques of German Idealism” (symposium talk – main program) New York, Eastern American Philosophical Association (APA)

2018 “Free Lawfulness in Judgments of the Beautiful & Sublime,” (main program) APA, Chicago

2018 “Threefold Function of the Imagination in the CPR,” (main program) Eastern APA, Savanah

2018 “Imagination in Judgments of Art and Natural Ends,” (group session) Central, APA, Chicago