Talks
2013
"Descartes' ontology of relations." A paper to be presented by invitation at the Scientia Workshop at the University of California at Irvine. May 2013
"Health in the early modern philosophical tradition." A paper to be presented by invitation at the Workshop on Health at The Warburg Institute, London. February 2013
2012
"Galen in the seventeenth century". A paper to be presented by invitation at the Workshop on Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. November 2012
2011
"Doctor Descartes: Resurrecting a Medical Philosophy." A paper to be presented by invitation at The Warburg Institute, London. December 2011 [pdf]
"How Descartes' medicine made the scientific revolution." A paper presented by invitation at The life sciences in Early Modern philosophy workshop, Princeton University. May 2011 [pdf]
"On Anstey's 'Origins of the Experimental/Speculative Distinction.'" Comments presented by invitation at the Marsden-funded research project Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism held at the University of Otago, New Zealand. April 2011
"Descartes union: could we just be straddling modes?" A paper presented by invitation at the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science Workshop on Descartes, University of Sydney, Sydney. April 2011
"How Descartes' medicine made the scientific revolution." A paper presented by invitation at the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney. April 2011
"Descartes the Medical Philosopher." A paper presented by invitation at Miami University of Ohio. April 2011
"Descartes the Medical Philosopher." A paper presented by invitation at the New York Academy of Science, NYU, New York City. March 2011 [pdf]
2010
"Connecting the roots and the branches: metaphysics and medicine in Descartes' philosophy." A paper presented at the peer reviewed 2010 meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Conference, Budapest, Hungary. June 2010 [pdf]
"Analogies as Cartesian Evidence." A paper presented by invitation at the Mellon Conference titled the Temper of Evidence, Caltech, Pasadena. May 2010 [pdf]
2009
"Descartes' genetic answer to the other minds skeptic." A paper presented by invitation at the Southern California Philosophy Conference, Claremont Colleges, Claremont. November 2009
"Why medicine mattered to René Descartes and why it should matter to historians of science and philosophy." A paper presented by invitation as a Pybus Seminar, Newcastle University, Newcastle. October 2009
"Could Descartes' Body Be A 'Straddling Mode'?" A paper presented at the peer reviewed Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford University, Oxford. October 2009
"Philosophy Needs Medicine: Historiography, Descartes, and Other Minds Skepticism." A paper presented by invitation at the Montreal Interuniversity Workshop in the History of Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal. March 2009 [pdf]
"Descartes' Medical Debts." A paper presented at the peer reviewed meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles. March, 2009 [pdf]
"Could Descartes' Body Be A 'Straddling Mode'?" A paper presented at the peer reviewed Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. January 2009
2007
"Cartesian Anthropocentrism." A paper presented by invitation at the workshop Discovering Life sponsored by the Program in the History of Science, Princeton University. February 2008 [pdf]
"Naturalism and un-naturalism among the Cartesian physicians." A paper presented at the peer reviewed South East Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa. November 2007
"When the mind became un-natural: La Forge and psychology in the Cartesian aftermath." A paper presented by invitation at the workshop Psychology and the Other Disciplines: A Case of Cross-Disciplinary Interaction (1250-1750), part of the European Science Foundation program “From Natural Philosophy to Science,” Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen. May 2007
"Experimenting with experiment: Descartes' medicine in the 1630s." A paper presented by invitation at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium Series, Indiana University, Bloomington. April 2007 [pdf]
"Naturalism and un-naturalism among the Cartesian physicians." A paper presented by invitation at the workshop Naturalism in Modern Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia. March 2007
"What the problem of other minds really tells us about Descartes." A paper presented at the peer reviewed Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of California at San Diego, San Diego. February 2007
2006
"What the problem of other minds really tells us about Descartes (and the history of philosophy)." A paper presented by invitation at the Early Modern Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago. October 2006
"Making Biology: What Goes Into a Discipline?" A paper presented by invitation at the Monroe Scholars Lunch Series, Charles Center, College Of William and Mary, Williamsburg. March 2006
2003
"Descartes' Philosophy of Biology." Princeton History of Science Workshop, Princeton University. December 2003
"Descartes' Philosophy of Biology." A paper presented at the peer reviewed Mid-Atlantic Graduate Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania. November 2003
2002
"L'étude cartésienne du vivant / Descartes' Study of the Living World" A paper presented at the peer reviewed joint meeting of the Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi su Descartes, Centre D'Etudes Cartesiennes, and the Midwest Seminar in the History of Modern Philosophy. December 2002 [pdf]
