Tadeusz Zawidzki

Presentations

“What Is Mindshaping?”, Influence Propagation in Networks, Strategic Dynamics, and Preference Change: An Interdisciplinary Online Workshop, Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, Georgia State University, August 2025.

“What Is Mindshaping?”, Non-Linguistic Normativity: Norms beyond Words, International Conference / Hybrid Event, Department of Law, University of Cagliari, Italy, June 2025. Tadeusz Zawidzki What is Mindshaping?

“Commentary on Şerife Tekin’s Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry”, Author Meets Critics Session, 116th Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Mobile, Alabama, April 3, 2025.

“Human vs. Artificial Social Cognition and Metacognition: The Normative Difference” (with Rémi Tison), Carleton University Philosophy Colloquium Series, Ottawa, ON, March 2025.

“Pattern Finding and Pattern Making”, III NormActivity Online Workshop: Hidden Normativity, Normative Mindshaping, September 2024. Pattern Finding and Pattern Making

“Skilled Metacognitive Self-Regulation toward Interpretive Norms: A Non- Relativist Basis for the Social Constitution of Mental Health and Illness”, 115th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cincinnati, OH, March 2024.

“Pattern Finding and Pattern Making”, Workshop on Social Interaction and Social Abilities: Norms, Scripts, and Injustices, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 2023.

“Medical or Moral? Are Personality Disorders Medical Conditions or Moral Failings?” (with Garson Leder), 2nd Workshop Mental health and normativity: Metaphysics and (in)justice, University of Granada, October 2023.

“Mindshaping Memory: On Mechanisms and Norms” (with Chris McCarroll and Nikola Andonovski), Poster Presentation at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology 49th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2023.

“Looping, Active Inference, Attention & Metacognitive Skill: New Foundations for the Bio-Psycho-Social Model”, Human Abilities & Inductive Metaphysics Workshop: Mental Disorders and Modal Properties, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 2023.

“Mindshaping Memory” (with Chris McCarroll and Nikola Andonovski), Center for the Philosophy of Memory Internal Seminar, Grenoble (remote), February 2023.

“The Relationship between Two Forms of Human Agency: Constructing Moral Selves by Developing Metacognitive Skills”, The Social Basis of Agency, Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotà, Columbia, February 2023.

“Looping, Active Inference, Attention & Metacognitive Skill: New Foundations for the Bio- Psycho- Social Model”, University of Granada Mental Health and Normativity Workshop, October 2022.

“Pattern Finding and Pattern Making” invited “Lunchtime Talk” at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, September 2022. LTT: Tadeusz Zawidzki - Pattern Finding and Pattern Making

“Pattern Finding and Pattern Making”, CEAR Workshop on Methodological Issues in the Economics of Preferences and Beliefs About Risk, Cork, Ireland, April 2022.

“Pattern Finding and Pattern Making”, Intuitive Alignment Workshop, University of Birmingham (UK), April 2022.

“Understanding Human Social Cognition and how Mindshaping Can Affect Social Behaviors”, Finding Genius Podcast, February 2022. Understanding Human Social Cognition and how Mindshaping can Affect Social Behaviors

“Mental Illness, Brain Disorders, and Metacognitive Skill”, with Garson Leder, accepted for presentation at “Minds, Models and Mechanisms: Current Trends in Philosophy of Psychiatry” workshop, Saarbrücken, Germany, April 20-22, 2021.

Guest Discussant of my "Self-Interpretation as Software" (previously published book chapter), Daniel Dennett's senior undergrad seminar at Tufts University (remote), March 2021.

“Commentary on Sonam Kachru's ‘What Is Metacognition?’, and Joulia Smortchkova's ‘Procedural Metacognition and Conceptual Change: A Developmental Perspective’”, Metacognition Symposium at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting (remote), January 2021.

“A New Perspective on the Relationship between Metacognition and Social Cognition”. Union College Departmental Colloquium, Union College, Schenectady NY, Union College 2019-2020 Speakers' Series, September 2019.

“Buddhist and Euro-American Philosophy of Mind: Points of Contact.” 111th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cincinnati, OH, March 8, 2019.

“What Is Meta-Cognitive Skill? Kindling a Conversation between Culadasa and Contemporary Philosophy of Psychology.” American Academies of Religion Conference, Denver, November 18, 2018.

“What Is Theory of Mind, and Could It Help with Joint Action?” Robotics: Science and Systems Conference: towards a Framework for Joint Action what about Theory of Mind? Carnegie Mellon University, June 29, 2018. Tad Zawidzki's seminar on Theory of Mind for Joint Action @RSS2018

“Neo-neo-Darwinism, Human Ultra-Sociality, and Dukkha.” NEH Summer Institute on Self-Knowledge in Eastern and Western Traditions, College of Charleston, June 1, 2018.

“Music & language: An Evolutionary perspective.” 110th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, San Antonio, TX, March 15, 2018.

“A New Perspective on the Relationship between Metacognition and Social Cognition.”  Normative Folk Psychology Workshop, York University, October 26-7, 2017.

“Suffering and Mindfulness: A Neo-Darwinian Perspective.” Presented at International Society for Buddhist Philosophy (Topic - Suffering, Anger, and No-Self: Buddhist-Western Comparative Perspectives), American Philosophical    Association, Baltimore, January 4, 2017.

“Mindshaping and Mindreading in Social Coordination.” Presented at the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk Workshop on Conditional Games and Strategic Risk, Rome, Italy, September 19-20, 2016.

“Are Infant Interpreters Dennettians?” Presented at: (1) Modeling Self on Others  Workshop, Central European University, Cognitive Science Department,  Budapest, May 2015; (2) Social Minds Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2015; (3) Loyola University pre SSPP Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences Workshop, New Orleans, April 2015.

“Mindfulness as Metacognitive Skill.” Presented at: (1) Philosophy Department  Colloquium, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA, March 2015; (2) Sensorium: The Symposium, George Washington University, Smith Hall of Art, December   2014.

“Self-Interpretation as Software.” Presented at: (1) Virginia Philosophical Association   Meeting Keynote, Washington and Lee University, November 2014; (2)    Instituting Minds Conference, Institute of Philosophy, London, July 2014.

“The Many Roles of the Intentional Stance,” Presentation at the annual meeting of the   Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Charleston, SC, February 7,   2014.

“The Myth of Jones Revisited: Our Dennettian Ancestors,” Presentation at the annual   meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Austin, TX,   February 28, 2013, and to the Wifrid Sellars Society, at the annual meeting of the   American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, MD, December 27, 2013.

“Why Do We Mindread?” Presentation at the Kazimierz Naturalism Workshop on Wide   Cognition and Social Intelligence, Kazimierz Dolny, August 21, 2013; at the   Culture and Mind Workshop, University of Amsterdam, June 29, 2013, and to the   College of Charleston Philosophy Department, Charleston, SC, September 15, 2011.

“The Myth of Jones Revisited: Our Dennettian Ancestors.” Presentation at the Minds in   Common conference, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France, June 25, 2013.

“False, Adaptive Beliefs about the mind.” Presentation at the annual      meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah,   GA, March 23, 2012.

“Against Neo-Gricean Approaches to Infant Communication.” Presentation at the annual   meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans,   LA, March 12, 2011.

“Theory of Mind, Computational Tractability and Mind Shaping.” Presentation at the   annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta,   GA, April 16, 2010.