Commentator on APA Pacific Panel: Empathy and Imagination. April 22, 2011.

"The Epistemic Functions of Empathy and Ethics" Spindel Conference, October 9, 2010.

“Empathy, Care Ethics and Moral Theory: Do Women do it Better?”
Central APA, Society for Analytic Feminism Session, Chicago, February 18, 2009.

“Beyond Simulation and Emotional Contagion: A Theory of Empathy”
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, March 20, 2008.

Response to Adam Shriver, “Empathy and Rationalism”
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, March 20, 2008.

“What are the Grounds of Filial Obligation? Developing a Concept of “Filial Reciprocity”
South Carolina Society for Philosophy-North Carolina Philosophy Society Joint Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, March 1, 2008.

“Empathy and Contractual Moral Theory”
Conference on Value Inquiry, Adrian College, Adrian, MI, April 2007.

“Contemporary Contract Theory and Moral Reasoning”
South Carolina Society for Philosophy, CCU, February 2007.

“Empathy and Reasoning about Justice”
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Work in Progress Talk, January 2006.

“Reason and Morality: The New Hobbes vs. The Old Gauthier,”
Conference on Value Inquiry, Louisiana State University, April 2005.

“Avoiding Paternalism: Respect and Autonomy in a Kantian View of Benevolence”
A Special Conference on Values, Stephens Point, WI, April 2004.

“Kant on the Value of Practical Reasoning”
Civitas Conference seminar, Washington D.C. June 2002.

“Contractualism, Reason, and Value”
Boston College Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, March 2001;
Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February 2001.

Response to Todd Weber, “A Dilemma for Rule-Based Ethics”
Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February 2001.

“An Assessment of Power in Feminist Epistemologies”
Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, April 1997.