Major talks
2012
- ‘Beyond the Brain: memory in science and culture’
The Centre for Human Aspects of Science and Technology (CHAST), University of Sydney, Sydney, October - ‘Beyond the Brain: embodied and distributed memory’
Colloquium at the Blackheath Philosophy Forum, Blue Mountains, NSW, June
2011
- ‘Self, Body, and Memory’
Symposium on Art, Emotion, Identity, for the exhibition ‘The Naked Face: self-portraits’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February.
2007
- ‘On memory and truth’
Colloquium at the Blackheath Philosophy Forum, Blue Mountains, NSW, July.
2004
- ‘Memory, Habit, and Movement’
Panel member Is There Thought Without Language (in Art)?, with J.M. Coetzee, University of Western Sydney, August.
1998
- ‘The Arts of Memory’
The Philosophy interest group of the NSW Psychiatry Association, University of Sydney.
Public philosophy
2013
- Panel member with David Papineau on The Yips, along with Steve Crook of Northamptonshire and MC Daniel Norcross, at Words and Wickets, Wormsley, September
- ‘Collaborative Cognition: the philosophy and science of teamwork’
Philosophy lunch, the Universities, Union, and Schools Club in Sydney, May. - ‘Collaborative Cognition: the philosophy and science of teamwork’
Nerd Nite Sydney with Amanda Barnier, March.
2012
- ‘Coordination and Teamwork: lessons and puzzles from sport’
Colloquium at the Media Lunch, Sydney, September
2011
- At Movies at Macquarie session on Inception
(with Doris McIlwain), September - Philosophy in Film night on Memento
University of Wollongong, September
2009
- Celebration and memorial for Charlie Martin
University of Sydney, March
2006
- ‘Intersecting Worlds: the intersecting worlds of science and society’
National Science Week 2006, hosted by the Ultimo Science Festival, August.
2004
- ‘Children’s Dreams’
2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum, Crows Nest Community Centre, Sydney.
2003
- ‘The Philosophy of Dreaming’
2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum, Crows Nest, Sydney, August.
2001
- ‘Problems with Presentism’
Workshop on historiography for high school history teachers, Macquarie University, July.
2000
- ‘Connectionism, culture, and cognition’
Hard/Soft/Wet: Artificial Life, dLux Digital Media Art/ Powerhouse Museum, ‘Futurescreen 2000’ program, Sydney, October.
Book launches
2014
- Ian Bedford’s novel The Last Candles of the Night, with Ross Poole
Gleebooks, Sydney, June.
2008
- Richard Menary’s book Cognitive Integration: mind and cognition unbounded (Palgrave)
University of Wollongong, June.
2007
- Max Deutscher’s book Judgment After Arendt (Routledge)
Gleebooks, Sydney, August.
