Papers Presented

  • “Encounters with Soviet Philosophers”. Keele University Russian Studies Departmental Seminar, Fall 1980.
  • “Filosofiya kak predmet obucheniya” (“Philosophy as a Subject of Tuition”). Moscow State University, December 1982.
  • “Lichnost’, dvysmyslennost’, i ancembl’ obshchestvennykh otnoshenii” (“Personhood, Ambiguity, and the Ensemble of Social Relations”). Institute of General and Educational Psychology, Moscow, February 1983.
  • “O prirode psikhicheskikh yavlenii” (“On the Nature of Mental Phenomena”). Institute of General and Educational Psychology, Moscow, June 1983.
  • “Thought, Speech, and the Genesis of Meaning”. Wolfson Philosophical Society, February 1985.
  • “Neuzheli li chevolek – “ancembl’ obshchestvennykh otnoshenii”?” (“How could man be ‘the ensemble of social relations’?”). Institute of Philosophy (Sector of Epistemology), April 1986.
  • “Activity in Soviet Philosophy”. Philosophical Problems of Psychology Seminar, University College, London, November 1986.
  • “Activity, Consciousness and Communication”.  Dept. of Communication Colloquium, University of California, San Diego, February 1988.
  • “‘In the Beginning was the Deed’: Ilyenkov on Activity and the Ideal”. International Conference on Work and Communication, University of California, San Diego, July 1988.
  • (with Carol Padden) “Alexandr Meshcheryakov and the Education of the Blind-Deaf”.  8th International Human Science Association Conference.  Aarhus, Denmark, August 1989.
  • “Activity, Consciousness and Communication”.  Dept. of Communication Colloquium, Linkorping University, Sweden, August 1989.
  • “Alexandr Meshcheryakov and the Education of the Blind-Deaf”. Dept. of Communication Colloquium, Linkorping University, Sweden, August 1989.
  • “Consciousness and Activity in Soviet Philosophy”.  Queen’s University Philosophy Department, February 1990.
  • “Consciousness and Activity in Soviet Philosophy”.  University of Guelph Philosophy Colloquium, February 1990.
  • (with Christine Sypnowich) “Ob obshchestvenno-kulturnoi prirode cheloveka” (On the Socio-Cultural Nature of the Subject).  Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, May 1991.
  • “Wittgenstein and Social Being”.  University of Toronto Philosophy Department, Analytic Group, April 1993.
  • “Wittgenstein and Social Being”.  Queen’s University Philosophy Colloquium, April 1994.
  • “Ilyenkov, Communication, and the Problem of the Ideal”.  Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, Graduate Seminar.  April 1994.
  • “Wittgenstein, Community, and Culture”.  Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, Departmental Colloquium.  April 1994.
  • “An Epistemology for Cultural Psychology”.  University of California, San Diego, Cognitive Science Seminar.  April 1994.
  • “On the Social Constitution of Mind: Bruner, Ilyenkov and the Defence of Cultural Psychology”.  University of Reading, Philosophy Society. November 1994.
  • “‘Epistemology Naturalized’ Revisited”.  St John’s College Philosophy Group.  November 1995.
  • “On the Social Constitution of Mind: Bruner, Ilyenkov and the Defence of Cultural Psychology”.  Sheffield Hallam University, Language and Linguistics Group.  February 1995.
  • “On the Social Constitution of Mind: Bruner, Ilyenkov and the Defence of Cultural Psychology”.  Loughborough University Social Sciences Colloquium.  March 1995.
  • “Laughter and Moral Ambiguity”.  Keele University, Department of Philosophy Staff Seminar, March 1996.
  • “Humour and Moral Philosophy”.  Cerberus Society, Balliol College, Oxford, June 1995.
  • “The Philosophy of Activity”.  3rd International Congress on Activity Theory, Moscow, June 1995.
  • “Activity, Culture, and the Life of the Mind”.  Centre for Applied Cognitive Science Seminar, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, February, 1996.
  • “Ethical Particularism in Context”.  Workshop on Ethical Particularism, University of Reading, June 1996.
  • “Memory, Identity and Cultural Psychology”.  Queen’s University Philosophy Colloquium, February 1997.
  • “Memory, Identity, and Cultural Psychology”.  University of Bari, Small Group Meeting on Collective Memory, Polignano, Italy, 1997.
  • “Wittgenstein and ‘I’”.  University of Reading, Philosophy Society, May 1998.
  • “Wittgenstein and ‘I’”. Queen’s University Philosophy Colloquium, September 1998.
  • “The Living and the Dead in Ilyenkov’s Philosophy”.  International Conference on the Philosophy of E.V. Ilyenkov.  Helsinki University, September 1999. (Opening Address).
  • “Ilyenkov on Aesthetics: Realism, Imagination, and the End of Art”.  Queen’s University Philosophy Colloquium March, 2000.
  • “Freedom, Reflection, and the Sources of Normativity”.  Faculty Research Seminar. University of Hertfordshire, December 2001.
  • “The Social Construction of Social Constructionism”.  Philosophy Society.  University of Hertfordshire, December 2001.
  • “The Marxists and the Exorcist: The Story of an Unlikely Meeting of Philosophical Minds”.  Visiting Fellows’ Colloquium, All Souls College, Oxford, January 2002.
  • “Social Constructionism, Meaning and Mind”.  Institute of Education, University of London, February 2002.
  • “McDowell on Bildung”.  Philosophy Group, All Souls College, Oxford, February 2002.
  • “Freedom, Reflection, and the Sources of Normativity”.  Philosophy Department Colloquium. University of Sussex, March 2002.
  • “Subject, Object, Knowledge: The Quiet Brilliance of Vladislav Lektorsky”.   Activity Theory Seminar Group.  School of Education, University of Birmingham, March 2002.
  • “Social Constructionism”. Dealing with Diversity. Conference of the International Society for Cultural-Historical Research and Activity Theory.  Amsterdam, May 2002.
  • “Reflections on Activity Theory”.  Institute of Education, University of London, October 2003.
  • “The Marxists and the Exorcist: The Story of an Unlikely Meeting of Philosophical Minds”.  Institute of Education, University of London, October 2003.
  • “Reflections on Activity Theory”.  Centre for Learning Research Colloquium, Griffith University, Brisbane, December 2003.
  • “Ilyenkov on Education”.  Enriching Learning Cultures.  11th Annual International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training.  Gold Coast, December, 2003.
  • “The Quiet Brilliance of Vladislav Lektorsky”.  Centre for Learning Research Colloquium, Griffith University, Brisbane, December 2003.
  • “Social Constructionism”.  Centre for Learning Research Colloquium, Griffith University, Brisbane, December 2003.
  • “Reflections on Activity Theory”. School of Education, University of Birmingham, February 2004.
  • “Pragmatism and Ethical Particularism”. American Philosophical Society, Western Division, March 2004 (Panel on John Dewey).
  • “Wiggins on Human Nature”. Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Conference, Winnipeg, June 2004.
  • “Particularism and Moral Education”. Institute of Education, University of London, February 2005.
  • “Can Philosophy Tell Us How History Made the Mind?” Conference in Honour of David Johnson, York University, Toronto, March 2005.
  • “Can Philosophy Tell Us How History Made the Mind?” School of Education Colloquium, Bath University, May 2005.
  • “Particularism and Moral Education”. 2005 Bled Conference on Particularism, Slovenia, June 2005.
  • “On the Concept of Mediation”. First ISCAR Conference, Seville, Spain, September 2005.
  • “On the Evolution of Activity Theory”. First ISCAR Conference, Seville, Spain, September 2005.
  • “Pragmatism and Ethical Particularism”. Queen’s University Philosophy Colloquium, October 2005.
  • “The Anatomy of Regret”.  Institute of Education, London, UK, December 2005.
  • “Vygotsky on Mediation”. Queen’s University Faculty of Education Colloquium, January 2006.
  • “The New Intuitionism”.   University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Seminar in Philosophy, April 2006.
  • “What Can Philosophy tell us about How History Made the Mind?”  Annual one-day Conference on Knowledge, Mind and Understanding.  Institute of Education, London University, May 2006. (This lecture was repeated annually at this conference in person or via electronic media until 2011.)
  • “The Aspirations of Philosophy”.  Charlton Professorship Inaugural Lecture, Queen’s University, October, 2006.
  • “The New Intuitionism”.  University of Alberta, Graduate Philosophy Seminar, November 2006.
  • “The Anatomy of Regret”.  University of Alberta, Philosophy Colloquium, November 2006.
  • “Activity Theory – a Critique”.  Bath University, Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research Seminar, December 2006.
  • “Self and Other in One’s Own Person”. One-day Conference on Self and Other.  Queen’s, March 2007.
  • “What Can Philosophy Tell Us about How History Made the Mind?” Gregynog Philosophy of Education Conference, University of Wales, May 2007.
  • “Exploring the Space of Reasons I”. York University Philosophy Colloquium, November 2007.
  • “Exploring the Space of Reasons II: Mood, Music and Creativity”. Institute of Education, London University, December 2007.
  • “Life in the Space of Reasons: Mood, Music, Education, and the Philosophy of John McDowell”. Keynote Lecture, Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Oxford, March 2008.
  • “The Riddle of the Self Revisited”. International Society for Cultural and Activity Research 2008 Conference, San Diego, Keynote Panel Presentation, September, 2008.
  • “Vygotsky in the Space of Reasons”. International Society for Cultural and Activity Research 2008 Conference, San Diego, September, 2008 (webcast).
  • “Moral Particularism: Ethical not Metaphysical”. Toward the Centre of Pragmatism Conference.  Universität Zürich Arbeits- & Forschungsstelle für Ethik.  October 2008.
  • “Moral Particularism: Ethical not Metaphysical”. Self and Other: Social Reason Conference.  Queen’s, December 2008.
  • “What Can Philosophy Tell Us about How History Made the Mind?” Conference on Thought and Culture, Sudbury University, March 2009.
  • “McDowell, Education, and the Space of Reasons”. Contribution to a Symposium on the significance of McDowell’s thought for philosophy of education, with Paul Standish and Jan Derry, Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference, Montreal, March, 2009.
  • “Self-Knowledge, Language and Literature”. London English Group, King’s College London, May 2009.
  • “Minds, Brains and Education” (with Andrew Davis). New Philosophies of Learning Book Launch, Durham University School of Education Research Seminar Series, May 2009.
  • “Activity and the Search for True Materialism”. Conference on The Activity Approach in Soviet Philosophy, Helsinki, September 2010.
  • “Education and Conversation”. Annual Conference, Knowledge, Mind and Understanding: Aspects of Contemporary Educational Practice in Critical Perspective, Institute of Education, London University, May 2012.
  • “Deyatel’nost’ i rozhdenie lichnosti” (“Activity and the formation of personhood”).  Conference on Philosophy in Late 20th Century Russia.  Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.  September 2012.
  • “Learning from Others”. Department of Applied Linguistics Colloquium Series, Penn State University, October 2012.
  • “Ilyenkov’s Hegel”. Conference on Hegel in Russia, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, NYU, April 2013.
  • “Activity and the Formation of Reason”. Annual Conference, Knowledge, Mind and Understanding: Aspects of Contemporary Educational Practice in Critical Perspective, Institute of Education, London University, May 2013. (Repeated May 2014 and 2015.)
  • “Education, Conversation, and New Learning Technologies”. Institute of Education Philosophy Centre Seminar, London University, May 2013.
  • “Thinking About Materiality”. Panel contribution, Power, Publics, New Media, UC San Diego Communication Department 30th Anniversary Celebration, June 2013.
  • “Training and Transformation”. 36th Annual Wittgenstein Conference, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2013.
  • “On Jan Derry’s Vygotsky, Philosophy and Education”, Book Launch, Institute of Education, London University, March 2014.
  • “On Price’s ‘Clarity is Not Enough’”, New Critical Conversations Seminar, Durham University, March 2014.
  • “Training, Transformation, and Education”.  Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture, London, March 2014.
  • “Self, Community, and the Second Person (I, We, You)”, Meaning and Mindedness Seminar Series, Tavistock Clinic, London, May, 2014.
  • “The Spirit of Pragmatism in the Quads of Oxford”.  British Academy Dawes Hicks Symposium on Pragmatism in Britain in the long 20th Century, October 2014.
  • “Responsiveness to Reasons”, Philosophy Symposium, Institute of Education, London, October 2014.
  • “On the Meeting of Minds”, Trent University Philosophy Colloquium, March 2014.
  • “Education, Conversation and New Learning Technologies”, PESGB 50th Anniversary Conference, New College, Oxford, March 2015.
  • “On the Meeting of Minds”, University of Leipzig, Prof. Sebastian Rödl’s Seminar, April 2015.
  • “Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education”, Pragmatism, Wittgenstein and the Virtues: Three Heterodox Approaches to Ethics. Conference at School of Philosophy, University College, Dublin, September 2015.
  • “On the Meeting of Minds”, Philosophy Symposium, UCL Institute of Education, London, November 2015.
  • “Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education”, Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge, November 2015.
  • “On the Philosophical Significance of Literature”, Workshop on Philosophy, Literature and Education, Warwick University, February 2016.
  • “Acquiring a Second Nature”, Templeton Institute Seminar on Becoming Human, Notre Dame, March 2016.
  • “Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education”, PESGB Annual Conference, New College Oxford, April 2016.
  • “On the Meeting of Minds”, Workshop on the Second Person, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen, June 2016.
  • “Punks versus Zombies: Evald Ilyenkov and the Battle for Soviet Philosophy”, Colloquium, Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, October 2016.
  • “Punks versus Zombies: Evald Ilyenkov and the Battle for Soviet Philosophy”, Queen’s University Saturday Club, November 2016.
  • “Teaching, Telling and Technology”, Workshop on Teaching and Learning: Metaphysical, Epistemic and Ethical Issues, UCL Institute of Education, May 2016.
  • “Education, Conversation and New Learning Technologies”, Durham University School of Education Research Seminar, May 2017.
  • “Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education”, Durham University School of Education Research Seminar, May 2017.
  • “Punks versus Zombies: Evald Ilyenkov and the Battle for Soviet Philosophy”, Keynote Lecture, International Society for Cultural-Activity Research (ISCAR) 5th International Congress.  August 2017.
  • “On Lenin’s Materialism and Empirocriticism”.  Revolutionology Workshop: The Bolshevik Contagion.  Neubauer Institute University of Chicago.  October 2017.
  • “Punks versus Zombies: Evald Ilyenkov and the Battle for Soviet Philosophy”, Department for the Study of Modern Czech Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Prague. November 2017.
  • “Trouble with Knowledge” at a conference on Andrea Kern’s Sources of Knowledge (Harvard, 2016) at the University of Chicago, February 2018.
  • “Kant, Education and the Formation of Reason”, Conference on Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy and Topical Problems of Contemporary Science and Politics, Akademia Kanta Institute for the Humanities.  Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, May 2018.
  • “Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education”, Moral Philosophy Colloquium, ANU, June 2018.
  • “Ilyenkov, Education and Philosophy”, School of Education, Monash University, June 2018.
  • “On the Concept of Perezhivanie”, School of Education, Monash University, June 2018.
  • “Ilyenkov 1968”, Conference on Envisioning Emancipation: The Year 1968, Institute of Philosophy, Prague. November 2018.
  • “Ilyenkov as Educator”, University of Havana. December 2018.
  • “On the Concept of Perezhivanie”, PESGB Annual Conference, New College Oxford, April 2019.
  • “Habit”, Workshop on Philosophy and Habit, University of Florida, Gainesville, June 2019.
  • “Analysis and Transcendence in The Sovereignty of Good”, Iris Murdoch: Perspectives on Moral Philosophy Conference, Queen’s University, September 2019.
  • “Habit”, Queen’s University Philosophy Colloquium, October 2019.
  • “On Siegel’s Education’s Epistemology”, NAAPE Annual Conference, October 2019.
  • “Critical Thinking and the Ends of Education”, School of Education, Durham University, June 2020 (by Zoom).
  • “Vospominaniya o Feliksa”, Conference in Memory of F. T. Mikahilov, Moscow, April 2021.  Participation by Zoom.
  • “Categorical Moral Imperatives”, International Conference on Kant’s Moral Philosophy, Kantian Rationality Lab, Kaliningrad, May 2021 (by Zoom).
  • “Après le déluge: Teaching and learning in the age of COVID”.  Faculty of Teacher Education and Languages. Østfold University College, Norway, August 2021.
  • “Sapere Aude: On Thinking for Oneself”. International Conference on Kant, Education and Enlightenment.  Kantian Rationality Lab, Kaliningrad, October 2021 (by Zoom).
  • “Après le déluge: Teaching and learning in the age of COVID”.  Canadian Philosophy of Education Society, October 2021 (by Zoom).
  • “Philosophy as a Way of Life”.  Keynote Address (Response to Meghan Sullivan).  North American Association for Philosophy and Education, October 2021.
  • “Matthews on Development and Deficit”.  North American Association for Philosophy and Education, October 2021.
  • “Moral Education for Metaphysical Animals”.  UCL Institute of Philosophy, Colloquium, May 2022.
  • “Moral Education for Metaphysical Animals/Murdoch on Inner Life”.  University of Winchester, Workshop on Wittgenstein, Privacy and Education, June 2022 (by Zoom).
  • “Après le déluge: Teaching and learning in the age of COVID”.  Presentation to International Reading Group on Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, February 2023 (by Zoom).
  • “Habit”.  Presentation to Graduate Seminar on Pragmatism in Britain in the 20th Century, University of Toronto, March 2023.
  • “Philosophy, Language, and Translation”, Pre-Conference Workshop, PESGB Annual Conference, New College, Oxford, March 2023.
  • “On ‘Vygotsky’s Concept of Perezhivanie’”, Asia-Pacific Cultural-Historical Activity Reading Group (on-line), October 2023
  • “Ilyenkov on Imagination”, Cultural Praxis Discussion Group (on-line), October 2023.
  • “On ‘Il’enkov’s Hegel’”, International Friends of Ilyenkov seminar (on-line), November 2023.
  • “Ilyenkov and Vygotsky on Imagination”, Penn State Department of Applied Linguistic, Socio-Cultural Theory Research Group seminar (on-line), November 2023.