Upcoming and ongoing
Upcoming and ongoing
Upcoming and ongoing
Organizing
I like organizing things. Here are some of the projects I'm involved with at the moment. If you see anything you like, get in touch!
Inquiry Network, Ongoing
(w/Arianna Falbo and Dennis Whitcomb)
Workshop on non-ideal theory (November 6-7, 2026, Vanderbilt University, w/Sven Neth)
Speakers confirmed. Attendance is free. RSVP to david.thorstad@vanderbilt.edu. Here's the poster.
4th Inquiry Network Workshop (April 2-3, 2027, Rhodes College, w/Jared Millson)
CFP open here until EOD December 31. Memphis is fun! Here's the poster.
Conferences organized (past)
Workshop on sociotechnical AI safety and generative AI,
(w/Robin Mckenna, University of Liverpool, 2026
Workshop on Beyond longtermism, Vanderbilt University, 2026
Empirical challenges to inference to the best explanation [Photos]
Vanderbilt University, 2025, (w/Ted Poston)
Inquiry Network workshops
3rd Inquiry Network Workshop, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2026
(w/Arianna Falbo (lead organizer) and Dennis Whitcomb)
2nd Inquiry Network Workshop, Rhodes College, 2025 [Photos]
(w/Jared Millson)
1st Inquiry Network Workshop, Vanderbilt University, 2024 [Photos]
Southeastern Epistemology Conference, Vanderbilt University, 2024 [Photos]
Bayesianism and its rivals, Northeastern University, 2022
(w/Branden Fitelson, Will Fleisher and Ned Hall)
Oxford workshops on global priorities research:
12th Oxford workshop on global priorities research, Oxford, 2023
(w/ Loren Fryxell)
11th Oxford workshop on global priorities research, Oxford, 2022
(w/ Loren Fryxell)
10th Oxford workshop on global priorities research, Oxford, 2022
(w/ Loren Fryxell)
9th Oxford workshop on global priorities research, Oxford, 2022
(w/ Loren Fryxell)
8th Oxford workshop on global priorities research, 2021
(w/ Loren Fryxell)
7th Oxford workshop on global priorities research, Oxford, 2021
(w/ Loren Fryxell, Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donnovan and Benjamin Tereick)
6th Oxford workshop on global priorities research, Oxford, 2021
5th Oxford workshop on global priorities research, Oxford, 2021
(w/Andreas Mogensen and Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan)
Workshop on bounded rationality, Harvard, 2019
(w/Branden Fitelson and Ned Hall)
Harvard-MIT graduate philosophy conference, Harvard, 2015
(w/Kevin Dorst, Jen Nguyen and Max Siegel)
Other events (past)
Open student workshops on global priorities research
2nd Open student workshop on global priorities research, Oxford, 2023
(w/Rio Popper and Bridget Williams)
1st Open student workshop on global priorities research, Oxford, 2022
(w/Charlotte Siegmann)
GPI + WANBAM (Women and Non-Binary Altruism Mentorship) workshop, Online, 2021
(w/Charlotte Siegmann)
Other organizing (past)
Vanderbilt Grand Challenge on Artificial Intelligence, Steering committee, 2024-5