Media
This page is for Media. For public engagement and high school outreach initiatives, please see Projects, the Playhouse, or my CV.
For research overviews, cheat sheets, and handouts, see the "Quick Guides" section of my Research Page.
Table of Contents
Philosophy Through Theatre Games (PTTG)
26.) The Case for Simulated Hope: Climate Grief in Story Telling
Story about 'Philosophy Through Theatre Games' (PTTG) as public philosophy about climate change.
By Brynn Brickell, in Mergoat magazine.
This was the first PTTG event. See projects page for more on the PTTG initiative.
Attention
25.) Richard Pettigrew on "Attunement"
Applies Blackwell and Good's 'Value of Information' approach to formal epistemology to the topics set out in my essay "Attunement: On the Cognitive Virtues of Attention".
Pettigrew's post is aimed at researchers, rather than the general public.
Witchcraft, Tarot, and the Occult
24.) Sex Witchcraft, Elvis on the Moon podcast, coming soon.
Love, Limerence, Sexuality, & Attraction
Further coverage of my love, limerence, and sexuality research: Here Here
23.) Reloscope: The Relationships Science Insights Podcast, Life Management Science Labs (LMSL): Topics: friendship, love, sexuality, divorce, limerence, tarot, social scripts, how media and language affects desire. (Release date: January 2025.)
22.) Norms and Rules: Navigating Risk and Reward in Kink, Group Sex, and Polyamory (placeholder title) on Brain in a Vat podcast (link not available yet); actual episode title TBD.
21.) 'On Love and Sexuality: Knowing Ourselves and Steering our Preferences' (placeholder title) on Brain in a Vat podcast (link not available yet); actual episode title TBD.
Time stamps for podcast topics
20.) "Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can change your relationships and how you see yourself" in The Conversation
Short, accessible magazine article about how one's vocabulary affects self-ascriptions of love, which in turn effect emotions, values, and relationships.
Translated into Portuguese for The Conversation
Other translations: German (link coming soon), Brazilian Portuguese.
19.) Video on the Power of "Love"
Quirky; 10 minutes
Featured at New Work in Philosophy
Co-created with my undergraduate student Brynn Brickell
18.) Podcast Episode at the Empowered Relationship Podcast.
50 minutes.
Discusses how words shape our feelings and relationships.
For a popular audience.
17.) Talk on Love and Limerence
Sketches "We Forge the Conditions of Love" in an informal way.
It was an academic talk, but it is relatively accessible.
60 minutes
16.) "A Philosopher Looks at Limerence"
Full title: "This is not This Is Not A Love Object: A Philosopher Looks at the Phenomenon of Limerence".
Discusses my account of limerence (from "We Forge the Conditions of Love).
By the writer Ethlie Ann Vare.
Self-Deception about Trauma
15.) Trauma's Trilemma Presentation
The 'She Said, He Said' Paradox
14.) "Dr. Sahar Joakim Interviews..." podcast episode
I first sketch evidence law about testimony.
I then explain the 'she said, he said' paradox.
I explain the epistemology of rape accusations, including diagnosing undue sources of doubt about rape accusations.
13.) Episode of Excited Utterance on the 'She Said, He Said' Paradox
30 minute discussion about the 'she said, he said' paradox.
Episode 89, released 13th April 2020.
12.) Keynote Presentation at the Southeastern Epistemology Conference
My session starts 6 minutes in, and lasts 90 minutes.
Investigates the 'she said, he said' paradox, focusing on what a 'she said, he said' case is.
This is a research talk, but is relatively accessible for the general public.
The link includes a transcript, and here is the handout.
Comments by Ted Poston.
11.) Social Epistemology Network presentation on the 'She Said, He Said' Paradox
A ten-minute introduction to the paradox.
Begins with a description of how the paradox fits in to my broader research.
Recorded April 2020.
Ethics of Belief
10.) Mistaking Good Looks for Goodness: Yusuf Dikeç and the Halo Effect APA Blog
9.) Public Philosophy Panel on Stereotyping and AI in Medicine
I introduce the 'relevant alternatives framework' conception of evidence and explain how it illuminates medical judgement.
I describe how single-source evidence is impotent at addressing some error possibilities, including that it is misleading, even if the evidence makes the hypothesis highly probable. I emphasise that second-source evidence (corroborating evidence) can address those error possibilities.
15 minute presentation. (Four presentations in total.) Followed by discussion.
Hosted by the Philosophy and Medicine Project at King's College London (KCL).
8.) Episode of Journal Entries about 'Evidentialism and Moral Encroachment'
Gives an overview of the moral encroachment debate.
Includes reflections on the topics, three years after the essay was written.
This website, called 'Listening Notes', has featured the episode. The website includes a summary, transcript, and suggested further reading.
Legal Epistemology
7.) Dialexicon podcast episode
6.) Legal Character Evidence Prohibitions and the Opacity of Character, Open for Debate, with Jacob Smith
Research lies at the intersection of evidence law, philosophy, and psychology.
Research received a Graduate Research Award from the University of Tennessee.
5.) Interview with Hi-Phi Nation.
The episode discusses the use of profiling and statistical evidence in sentencing decisions.
Season 3, episode 2, released 16th February 2019
Research presentation at the University of Cologne.
This is not aimed at the broader public; it is a research talk.
This research was published as "Profiling and Proof: Are Statistics Safe" in Philosophy (winner of the Royal Instiute of Philosophy prize).
Note: This presentation was from a long time ago, when I was still a student.
Published 16th April 2018
Statistical Inference in Science
2.) Comparison of Severe Testing and Modal Epistemology
Based on Gardiner and Zaharatos (2022) "The Safe, the Sensitive, and the Severely Tested: A Unified Account" Synthese.
A series of three articles written by Mayo about this research.
Pedagogy
1.) Syllabus Showcase
Syllabus Showcase for an innovative course on emerging research topics.
The courses topics were Ignorance, Distraction, and Confusion.
Profiles
Archival interview about the history of Edinburgh University's Philosophy Society (coming soon).