John Sutton, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
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This page gives details of my talks from my first year in grad school through to 1999.
For talks from 2000 onwards, see my talks page.

1989 (3 seminar commentaries)
- Discussion of R.A. Sharpe (1987), Psych Theory graduate seminar, Sydney Uni, April
- Introduction to Connectionism, Psych Theory graduate seminar, Sydney Uni, May
- Discussion of Pat Churchland on reduction, dreams, and consciousness (1988), Psych Theory graduate seminar, Sydney Uni, September
1990 (3 academic talks, 1 seminar commentary)
- (With Daniel Stoljar) Explanation, Ontological Commitment, and the Legitimacy of Levels, Philosophy seminar, Adelaide Uni, March
- Religion and the Failures of Determinism, Society for Intellectual History, Sydney Uni, March
- Connectionism and the History of Associationism, Psych Theory graduate seminar, Sydney Uni, May
- Reduction and Levels of Explanation in Connectionism, 1st conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, UNSW, November
1991 (5 academic talks)
- Animal Spirits and Memory Traces, Philosophy graduate conference, Mt Victoria, Blue Mountains, April
- Amnesia and Identity, 'Don't Look Back': History graduate conference, Sydney Uni, April
- Animal Spirits and Memory Traces, Australasian Association for History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) conference,
    University of Western Australia, Perth, July
- Amnesia, Distributed Representation, and the Memory Trace, Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) conference, Melbourne Uni, July
- Wittgenstein, Memory, and Neurophilosophy, Philosophy seminar, Sydney Uni, September
1992 (6 academic talks)
- Animal Spirits and Memory Traces: neurophilosophy of personal identity, Philosophy seminar, Flinders Uni, March
- Wittgenstein, Memory, and Neurophilosophy, Philosophy seminar, Macquarie Uni, May
- Wittgenstein, Memory, and Neurophilosophy, Philosophy seminar, RSSS, Australian National University, May
- Distributed Representation and the Memory Trace, joint Philosophy/ Cognitive Science seminar, Edinburgh Uni, June
- Animal Spirits and Memory Traces: 17th-century responses to Descartes, Hartlib Papers conference, Sheffield Uni, July
- Distributed Representation and the Memory Trace, Cognitive Science seminar, Melbourne Uni, August
1993 (9 academic talks)
- Distributed Representation and the Memory Trace, Artificial Intelligence Lab, UNSW, April
- Confusion and Mixture in Ancient Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy seminar, Macquarie Uni, May
- Distributed Representation and the Memory Trace, Computer Science seminar, Sydney Uni, July
- Confusion and Mixture in Ancient Philosophy of Mind, Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) conference, Adelaide Uni, July
- Confusion and Mixture in Ancient Philosophy of Mind, Ancient History conference, Macquarie Uni, July
- Confusion and Mixture in Ancient Philosophy of Mind, Ancient Philosophy workshop, Sydney Uni, August
- Inner Discipline: animal spirits and the physiology of self, Macquarie Uni  tour to Uni of New England, Armidale, September
- Cartesian Neurophilosophy: automata and the roll of the soul, Philosophy seminar, UNSW, October
- The Phantasmal Chaos of Association: representations, realism, history, Psychology seminar, Sydney Uni, October
1994 (5 academic talks)
- Nervous Turbulence and Psychological Control, Foucault conference, Ramada Hotel, Surfer's Paradise, Gold Coast
- Angel Sex and Angel Memory: interpenetration and spirits in Restoration England, Australasian Association for History, Philosophy,
    & Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) conference, Griffith Uni, July
- Angel Sex and Angel Memory: spirits and mixture in Restoration England, Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics seminar,
    Sydney Uni, August
- The Moral Physiology of the Passions, conference on the passions in the 17th century, Sydney Uni, August
- Discussion of Ian Hacking on memoro-politics, trauma, and the soul, medical history group, Sydney Uni, October
1995 (2 academic talks)
- Animal Spirits and Memory Traces, Columbia History of Science group meeting, Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands, February
- Commentary on 'Images of Intimacy' conference on early modern biography and autobiography, Clark Library, UCLA, April
1996 (2 academic talks)
- Animal Spirits and Memory Traces, conference on Descartes' natural philosophy, Sydney Uni, April
- Catastrophic Interference: superposition and its dangers, History of Science Society conference, Atlanta, November
1997 (5 academic talks)
- Folk Psychology and History: connecting cognition and culture, Philosophy seminar, Sydney Uni
- The Body and the Brain: Descartes on machines and physiology, Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) conference,
    Auckland Uni, July
- Folk Psychology and History: how theories of mind change minds, Australasian Association for History, Philosophy,
    & Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) conference, Auckland Uni, July
- Distributed Memory, Coupling, and History, conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, Newcastle Uni, September
- Distributed Memory, Coupling, and History, Cognitive Science seminar, Macquarie Uni
1998 (5 academic talks)
- Animal Spirits and Memory Traces, European Enlightenment Project conference, Edinburgh Uni, August
- Daston and Park on Wonders, Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics conference, Sydney Uni
- Body Image and Body History, General Philosophy seminar, Sydney Uni
- The Arts of Memory, Annual lecture for the Philosophy interest group of the NSW Psychiatry Association, Sydney Uni
- Memory and Time, T&M Philosophy seminar, Sydney Uni
1999 (7 academic talks)
- History and Moral Physiology, conference on origins of modernity, University of Hong Kong, April
- Traces, Dreams, and Spirits, early modern natural philosophy conference, Sydney Uni, June
- Carelessness and Inattention: chance and the physiology of habit from Locke to Hume, workshop of the Institute for
    Advanced Studies in Humanities, Edinburgh Uni, September
- Nervous Fluids and Innards, Albrecht von Haller Lecture for the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences conference,
    Zurich, September
- Carelessness, Chance, and Habit, International Society for the History of the Neurosciences conference, Lausanne, September
- Memory and Time, Philosophy seminar, Stirling Uni, September
- Confusion and Mixture in Aristotle's Psychology, Philosophy seminar, Edinburgh Uni, October

For talks from 2000 onwards, see my talks page.

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