
Invited Talks
2023
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The Rationality of Mental Imagery. Ruhr University of Bochum. Bochum-Rutgers Workshop. 
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The Epistemic Role of Inner Speech as a form of Mental Imagery. Universitá degli Studi di Siena. Invited open lecture. 
2020
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Self-deception and automatic believing. Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München. Workshop: Self-Images: Current Topics in Moral Psychology.​ (Cancelled due to Coronavirus concerns).​ 
2019
- Attention and Cognitive Penetration: should we be worried? Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster. Workshop: Scientific Observation and Background Effects. 
2017
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​Understanding Self-Deception in the framework of Predictive Coding. Ruhr-University Bochum. Second Bochum-Rutgers Workshop. 
2016
- The epistemic role of attention in perception and cognition. Monash University. Department of Philosophy graduate seminar. 
2014
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Cognitive penetration and social vision. Harvard University. Workshop on cognitive penetrability.​ 
Peer-Reviewed Talks
2024
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The Rationality of Mental Imagery. Universitá di Roma La Sapienza. AISC 
2020
- Self-deception in a Spinozan mind. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. DGPhil. 
2019
- The intermediate scope of consciousness in the predictive mind. Athens. ESPP. 
2018
- Self-deception in the predictive mind. Universität zu Köln. GAP10. 
- Self-deception in the predictive mind. University of Rijeka. ESPP. 
2017
- Active inference and the intermediate level of consciousness. Universitá di Bologna. AISC. 
2015
- Cognitive penetrability and perceptual judgment: 
 A case for emotion recognition. Universität Osnabrück. GAP.9
- Attention and cognitive penetration in predictive coding. Workshop: Cognitive penetrability and Predictive Coding. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. 
2014
- The cognitive foundations of conscious experience. Noto. ESPP 
- The cognitive foundations of conscious experience. Universitá degli Studi dell'Aquila. SIFA. 
- Cognitive penetrability How the interaction of perception and concepts determines our experience of the world. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. DGPhil. 
2013
- Attention and Cognitive Penetration in Visual Consciousness. Universität Salzburg. SOPhiA 
- Top-down Processes in Visual Object Perception. An Extended Version of the Intermediate-level Hypothesis. Universitá degli Studi di Cagliari. SIFA Graduate Conference. 
Conferences as Organizer
2024
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Mental Files in Philosophy and Psychology: Merits and Limits. Ruhr Universität Bochum. Organizers: Francesco Marchi, Albert Newen, Julia Wolf.​ 
2019
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Automaticity and Bias in Thought and Action. Technische Universität Dortmund. Organizers: Francesco Marchi, Albert Newen, Anna Welpinghus, Katja Crone, Flavia Felletti, Neil Roughley.​ 
2017
- New Perspectives on Self-deception, Biased Belief and Automatic Action. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Organizers: Francesco Marchi, Albert Newen 
2016
- Predictive Coding and the Mind. Three lectures by Prof. Jakob Hohwy. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Organizers: Albert Newen, Francesco Marchi, Tobias Schlicht, Shaun Gallagher 
2015
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Cognitive penetrability and Predictive Coding. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Organizers: Francesco Marchi, Albert Newen; Peter Brössel.