Talks given

• “Morele zorgen of moreel zorgen? Kunstmatige intelligentie, verantwoordelijkheid en de zorgtaak”
  • November 23, 2024 — Talk at Jaarcongres Vereniging Filosofie en Geneeskunde: AI in de zorg, Radboudumc Nijmegen
• “How do we flourish with artificial intelligence”
  • June 18, 2024 — Talk at Interdisciplinary research hub on digitalization and society (iHub), Nijmegen
• “Flourishing with generative artificial intelligence?”
  • June 11, 2024 — Talk at Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values (ACHEEV), University of Wollongong, Australia
• “Trusting the machine? AI-assisted decision making in healthcare”
  • June 7, 2024 — Special keynote talk at 15th Congress of the European Skull Base Society, Maastricht
• “De AI apocalyps?”
  • May 27, 2024 — Talk at Apocalyps Symposium of studievereniging USLAS Atlas, Utrecht

• “Embodied imagination in the virtual memory palace”
  • May 21, 2024 — Talk at Playing in VR: Imagination, Affordances and Aesthetic Experience Conference, Antwerp
• “Neurophenomenology as a neuroscientific method”
  • April 20, 2024 — Invited keynote for Synapsium student symposium, Nijmegen
• “Ontstemd door kunstmatige muziek”
  • March 21, 2024 — Public lecture on music and AI at music stage Doornroosje, Nijmegen



• Speaker on the moral concerns with reviving the dead through AI at “Eternal You” (2024) film screening
  • March 14, 2024 — For students of HAN University of Applied Sciences at Arthouse LUX, Nijmegen
• “Neurophenomenology as a neuroscientific method”
  • March 14, 2024 — Talk at Nexus meeting on consciousness at Donders Institute, Nijmegen
• “What do our relations with robots teach us about our relations with other humans?”
  • March 8, 2024 — Guest lecture for honours students of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen
• “(Zorg)communicatie en AI”
  • February 8, 2024 — Invited keynote for symposium Ouderenzorg Radboudumc, Nijmegen



• “Three misconceptions about ChatGPT”
  • September 25, 2023 — Lecture for Studium Generale, Maastricht University
• “ChatGPT: onderwijs en onderzoek”
  • September 12, 2023 — Guest lecture Van der Heijden Institute for Corporate Law, Radboud University Nijmegen
• “ChatGPT: een stoomcursus”
  • September 11, 2023 — Guest lecture Medical Psychology department, Radboudumc
• “ChatGPT is een duimzuiger”
  • June 14, 2023 — Invited lecture for Communicatiekring Nijmegen i.s.m. Logeion
• “Why ChatGPT is not like a pocket calculator”
  • April 20, 2023 — Keynote lecture Graduate Research Day, Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• “Creatief met kunstmatige intelligentie”
  • March 30, 2023 — Mini-lecture and discussion in the Techdenkers series on the future of technology at De Balie, Amsterdam
• “Een filosofische landkaart van ChatGPT”
  • January 24, 2023 — Public lecture Radboud Reflects, Nijmegen



• “What the memory palace affords”
  • September 16, 2022 — Talk at the 11th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Berlin
• Speaker at film screening of “Ich bin dein Mensch” on love between human and robot
  • June 29, 2022 — Arthouse LUX, Nijmegen
• “Enactive episodic memory through sensorimotor scenario construction”
  • May 23, 2022 — Talk with Marta Caravà at ‘4E cognition and memory’ online workshop
• “Enactive remembering: From lived experience to memory model”
  • December 2, 2021 — Talk with Francesca Righetti at Remembering: Phenomenological and Analytic Approaches workshop, Grenoble
• “Enactive remembering through the lens of sensorimotor contingencies”
  • May 15, 2021 — Speaking Bodies: Embodied Cognition at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence Conference (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
• “Misplacing memories? An enactive approach to the virtual memory palace”
  • April 6, 2021 — Memory Group discussion (Washington University in St. Louis)
• “Misplacing memories? An embodied enactive approach to the memory palace”
  • March 11, 2021 — Philosophy of Mind and Language Group Seminar (Radboud University Nijmegen)
• “Scenarios in generative episodic memory: a sensorimotor account of scenario construction”
  • March 5, 2021 — Berlin-Bochum Memory Symposium (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
• “A sensorimotor account of scenario construction in episodic memory”
  • February 17, 2021 — Generative episodic memory: Interdisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany, digital conference (Zoom talk)
• “Enactive remembering through the lens of sensorimotor contingencies”
  • August 10-14, 2021 — Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (event cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
• “Enactive remembering through the lens of sensorimotor contingencies”
  • July 17, 2020 — FOR2812 Research seminar, RUB, Germany (Zoom talk)
• “Misplacing memories? An enactive approach to the virtual memory palace”
  • May 26, 2020 — Bochum Memory Colloquium, RUB  (Zoom talk)
• “Enactive remembering through the lens of sensorimotor contingencies”
  • May 6, 2020 — Remembering: Phenomenological and Analytic Approaches, Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Grenoble (event cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
• “Virtues, robots, and the enactive self”
  • February 22, 2020 — 39th Dutch-Flemish Day of Philosophy, Twente University, the Netherlands
• “Typesetting beautiful texts with LaTeX”
  • September 25, 2019 — University of Wollongong, Australia
• “Enactivism and postphenomenology”
  • September 3, 2019 — Deakin Philosophy Staff Seminar Series, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
• “Virtues, robots, and the extended self”
  • July 7 — 11, 2019 — Australasian Association of Philosophy conference, University of Wollongong, Australia
• “The Fall of Functionalism” *
  • December 7, 2018 — University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• “Misplacing memories? Applying embodied accounts of the memory palace to virtual reality”
  • October 27, 2018 — University of Edinburgh Philosophy reading retreat, Tomintoul, Scotland
• “Enactivism as a postphenomenological metaphysics”
  • July 13, 2018 — Philosophy of Human Technology Relations conference, University of Twente, the Netherlands
• “A critique of pure functionalism” *
  • February 20, 2018 — Naturally Evolving Minds. University of Wollongong
• “Can we afford a new approach to the virtual memory palace?”
  • November 25, 2017 — Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane
• “Can we afford a new approach to the virtual memory palace?”
  • November 20, 2017 — Science of the Self. The Agency & Body Representation Research Forum, Sydney / Macquarie University.
• “Improving the virtual memory palace”
  • September 13, 2017 — Work in Progress meeting (UOW)
• “Designing virtuous sex robots”
  • August 9, 2017 at the Social Robotics workshop (UOW)
• “Can we afford a new approach to the virtual memory palace?”
  • May 13, 2017 at the Sydney Philosophy of Psychology meeting
  • With Miguel Segundo-Ortin
• “Would you want a robot lover?”
  • April 12, 2017 at the Philosophy Forum of the University of Wollongong
• Introductory talk to the 2015 film Ex Machina
  • March 23, 2017 — Prerecorded video for the Artificial Intelligence student society CognAC at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• “Can I kick my robot dog? Ethical and societal implications of personal robots”
  • December 2, 2016 at the 2016 UOW Philosophy Training conference

• “Free will put to the test”
  • September 26, 2016 at the Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy conference, Australian National University, Canberra
• “Free will put to the test”
  • July 5, 2016 at the Australasian Association of Philosophy conference, Monash University, Melbourne
• Tegenlicht Meet Up Nijmegen: Tinder Love
  • February 18, 2016 at LUX Nijmegen
• “Extended mind vs. extensive mind”
  • April 30, 2016 at Sydney Philosophy of Psychology meeting
• Introduction to the 2015 film Ex Machina
  • November 7 & 8, 2015 at InScience International Film Festival
• “Waarom robots ongelijk zijn aan mensen”
  • April 7, 2015 at Filosofisch Café, Trianon, Nijmegen
  • Translation of title: “Why robots are not equal to humans”
  • Co-speaker and interviewer of Pim Haselager
• Co-speaker (coreferent) at seminar on (utilitarian) ethics with Peter Singer
  • July 2, 2012, Radboud University, Nijmegen
• “An operationalization of Frankfurt’s conception of free will”
  • June 27, 2012 at “Consciousness and Volition” Conference, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
• Co-speaker (coreferent) at seminar with Peter Sloterdijk on his Regeln für den Menschenpark
  • April 27, 2009, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Talks organised

• Societal Implications of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIAC) Colloquium Series
  • 2024 — present
  • Co-organised with Pim Haselager
• (Virtual) research colloquium “Bochum-Grenoble Memory Colloquium”, hybrid lecture series with many renowned philosophers and scientists of memory
  • 2020 — 2022
  • Co-organised with Nikola Andonovski, Kourken Michaelian & Markus Werning
• “Memory and Imagination: Varieties of (Dis)continuism” workshop at Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie 11 Conference in Berlin
  • September 16, 2022
  • Co-organised with Markus Werning and Chris McCarroll
• “4E Cognition and Memory” online workshop
  • May 23–25, 2022
  • Co-organised with Marta Caravà, Roy Dings and Chris McCarroll
• “Gender and social robotics” — Minorities in Philosophy (MAP) event at University of Wollongong, Australia. Speaker: Anna Henschel (Glasgow)
  • August 28, 2019
  • Co-organised with Nick Brancazio
• “The role of the body in virtual reality”
  • April 24, 2017 — Interdisciplinary workshop at UOW
  • Co-organised with Nick Brancazio and Miguel Segundo-Ortin

• Inaugural Sydney Philosophy of Psychology Meeting
  • April 29 — May 1, 2016
  • Co-organised with Catrin Donovan and Peter Clutton
• Drones Film & Discussion Programme
  • November 7, 2015 at InScience International Film Festival
  • Co-organised with Lies Bruines

• Liveblogger at TEDxRadboudU
  • May 23, 2013 at De Vereeniging in Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• Chair at “From belief in a system to systems of belief”, Philosophers’ Rally
  • May 12 — 13, 2011 at Raboud University, Nijmegen
  • Chaired keynote of Adrian Moore (Oxford)
    • Title: “What Descartes ought to have thought about modality”
• Symposium “Het echte leven” (“The real life”)
  • April 29, 2011 during the “Maand van de Filosofie” (“Month of Philosophy”) at Radboud University, Nijmegen
  • Among the speakers: Peter Hagoort and Pim Haselager
  • Co-organised with Niek Dijkerman and Elianne Smits