Selected Talks

5-8 August 2025. "Institutional Agency and Collective Responsibility for AI Governance". Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality Conference 2025. Trinity College Dublin.
 

11-13 June 2025. "Institutional Agency and Collective Responsibility for AI Governance". STS Italia Conference. Politecnico di Milano.
 

2nd June 2025. "Explanatory Metaphysics in Jurisprudence". Edinburgh Legal Theory Festival. University of Edinburgh.
 

26th-28th May 2025. "Institutional Agency and Collective Responsibility for AI Governance". Large-Scale Risks of AI: Control, Governance, and Ethics. KU Leuven.
 

28th November 2024. "Explanatory Metaphysics in Jurisprudence". Contemporary Views on Social Ontology and Philosophy of Law. University of Milan.
 

11th November 2024. "Blame & Responsibility in Proxy Action". Retrospective Collective Responsibility Workshop. University of Siena.
 

20th September 2024. "A Default Model of Normative Risk for the EU AI Act". 3rd International Conference on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. University of Azores.
 

9th July 2024. "Explanatory Metaphysics in Jurisprudence". Metaphysics in Legal Theory at IVR2024. Soongsil University.
 

23rd May 2024. "Proxy Responsibility". Institutions, Agency and Responsibility Workshop. University College Cork. 
 

25th April 2024. "Unalienated Participants". Exploring Associational Life through Social Ontology and Law. University College Cork
 

7th December 2023. "Legal Ontology Made Easy". Surrey Centre for Law & Philosophy
 

17th August 2023. "Social ontology: What is it? What do we want it to be?" Social Ontology & Collective Intentionality 2023 Conference. Stockholm University.
 

16th August 2023. "From Group Agency to Institutional Agency". Social Ontology & Collective Intentionality 2023 Conference. Stockholm University.
 

1st February 2023. "Making the State Responsible". Boole Lecture Series. University College Cork.
 

24th November 2022. "Proxy Agency in Institutional Action Contexts". Speakers Series. Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University.
 

27th September 2022. "Institutional Proxy Agency: A We-Mode Approach". Themes from Raimo Tuomela's Social Ontology Workshop. I.C.U.B., University of Bucharest.
 

9th September 2022. "Making the State Responsible: A Proxy Account of Legal Organisations and Private Agents Acting for the State". Corporate Agency And The Responsibilities Of Citizens And States Workshop. MANCEPT.
 

24th August 2022. "Institutional Proxy Agency: A We-Mode Approach". Social Ontology & Collective Intentionality 2022 Conference. University of Vienna.
 

6th December 2019. "An Artifact Theory of Rights". Legal Theory Discussion Group. University of Cambridge.
 

23rd August 2019. "Easy Social Ontology". ENSO 2019. University of Tampere.
 

11th July 2019. "Legal Activity is not Social Planning Activity. Some Critical Comments on Shapiro’s Planning Theory of Law". IVR 2019. University of Lucerne.
 

8th July 2019. "An Artifact Theory of Rights". IVR 2019. University of Lucerne.
 

31st May 2019. "The Institutionalisation of Social Practices". Social Ontology, Normativity and Philosophy of Law. University of Glasgow.
 

11th April 2019. "An Artifact Theory of Rights". Law School WiP Workshop. University of Edinburgh.
 

28th January 2019. "An Artifact Theory of Legal Rights". SOFY Seminar. University of Helsinki.
 

21st January 2019. "An Artifact Theory of Rights". Research Seminar. TINT, University of Helsinki.
 

20th December 2019. "A Metaphysical Analysis of Social Practices". Research Seminar. TINT, University of Helsinki.
 

31st October 2018. "The Metaphysics of Social Practices". Social Metaphysics WiP Workshop. University of Turku.
 

24th August 2018. "The Normativity of Social Practices". Social Ontology and Philosophy of Law. University of Glasgow.
 

24th August 2017. "A Default Logic for Defeasible Legal Rules". Law School WiP Workshop. University of Edinburgh.
 

20th January 2017. "The Requirements of an Artifact Theory of Law". Disputationes Quadrangulae 11. Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.