Talks

Invited plenary speaker

  • June 2019. ‘Moving between frustration and anger: Punishing, empowering, but not trusting’. Emotions and Punishment. University of Canterbury, UK.

Conference presentations and invited talks

  • January 2024. ‘Explanations of emotional actions: A parallel between virtue and emotion’. Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Annual Conference. Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS).
  • January 2024. With Luis Cordeiro Rodrigues. ‘AI, racism without racists, and agency’. The CAIR AI 4 Society Symposium Series, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS).
  • May 2023. ‘My engagement with AI (ethics) as a philosopher’. Leveraging the African Humanities in the Ethics of New and Emerging (Health) Technologies. The Ethics Lab, University of Cape Town, hosted at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS).
  • January 2023. ‘Emotional consciousness, rational agency, and normative commitments.’ Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Annual Conference. University of Johannesburg.
  • November 2022. ‘Bias towards WEIRD people in XAI research’. Tayarisha Lunchbox Talk, Wits School of Governance.
  • November 2021. ‘Disruptive emotions and African communitarianism’. Workshop on Political Emotions. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. [online]
  • July 2021. ‘Disruptive emotions and African communitarianism’. The 26th conference of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS). [online]
  • June 2021. ‘Emotional commitments and rational agency’. Joint Session. [online]
  • March 2021. With Caroline Gevaert, Benjamin Rosman, Yola Georgiadou and Robert Soden. ‘Accountable AI for disaster risk management – FAccT considerations on risk models, geospatial data, and inclusivity of lower- and middle-income countries’. FAccT 2021. [online]
  • October 2019. ‘Emotional commitments and rational agency’. The First Wits-Alberta e-Conference. [online]
  • March 2019.   With Benjamin Rosman. ‘Applying a principle of explicability to AI research in Africa: Should we do it?’ Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) Symposium. University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • December 2018. ‘Modulating emotions in moral enhancement.’ International Conference on Applied Ethics (ICAE). University of Kyoto, Japan.
  • October 2018. ‘More or less informed consent’. With Prof. Lucy Allais. Southern African HIV Clinicians Society conference, South Africa.
  • May 2017. ‘Anger.’ Negative Emotions: The good, the bad and the ugly. CISA, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
  • May 2017. ‘Emotional thinking.’ Feeling Reasons: The role of emotions in reasoning, University of Edinburgh, UK.
  • March 2016. ‘Profile of an angry inquirer.’ APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
  • September 2015. ‘Taking anger seriously.’ Spring Colloquium, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
  • 2015. ‘Bridging the Emotional Gap: the attitudinal theory of emotions and justification’.
    • July: Poster at the International Society on Research on Emotion (ISRE), University of Geneva, Switzerland.
    • July: Paper at the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE), University of Edinburgh, UK.
  • July 2015. ‘The frightening’s not always fearful; or, an examination of the formal object of emotion’. Joint Session, University of Warwick, UK.
  • July 2014. ‘Guiding action by emotion’. EPSSE, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
  • May 2013. ‘Feeling Reasons: How emotions explain action’. Berkeley-London Graduate Conference, UC Berkeley, USA.
  • September 2012. ‘The rationalising potential of emotions’. SOPhiA 3rd Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria.
  • September 2012. ‘How emotions do not provide reasons to act’. British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BPPA) Annual Conferences, University of Edinburgh, UK.
  • June 2012. ‘Greenspan and emotions as critical reasons’. Open Minds VII Graduate Conference in Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK.
  • February 2012. ‘Why we should look closer at the role of emotions in the explanation of rational action’. London Graduate Spring Conference, Institute of Philosophy, UK.
  • January 2009. ‘What’s really disgusting’. Philosophy Society of South Africa (PSSA) Annual Conference, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
  • January 2008. ‘Wiredu and the problem of relativism’. PSSA Annual Conferences, University of Pretoria, South Africa.