Cassandra Williams

Ph.D. Candidate · Philosophy · University of Toronto

Talks

Presentations * = refereed

Would I Still Be Sentient if I Was a Worm? Ontario Mind Group. October 20, 2025.
How Speculative is Biopsychism Really?* Society for Philosophy and Psychology. June 20, 2025.
How Speculative is Biopsychism Really?* Workshop on The Edge of Sentience, Ruhr University Bochum. June 12, 2025.
Making Sense of Agency* International Conference for Artificial Life. June 24, 2024.
Making Sense of Agency* Dimensions of Radical Embodiment, University of Murcia. June 21, 2024.
Making Sense of Agency* On Purpose, Duke University. May 6, 2024.
Making Sense of Agency* Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. March 23, 2024.
Radicalism Twice Over: Radical Structuralism, Radical Embodiment, and Subjectivity* Berlin Workshop on Ecological Psychology, Technical University of Berlin. June 9, 2023.
Feeling It Out: Affectivity as Minimal Rationality* Emotions, Reasons, and Rational Agency, University of Tennessee. March 18, 2023.

Commentaries

Comments on Fermin Fulda, “Life and the Dialectics of Matter and Form: Organicism between Dialectical Materialism and Hylomorphism” Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, University of Toronto. October 12, 2025.
Comments on Tanya Dushatska, “Artificial Intelligence, Phenomenal Consciousness, and Creative Agency” Canadian Philosophical Association, George Brown College. June 20, 2025.