Next Nature and the City. Invited lecture at the conference.“Nature and the City”. Organized by the Laboratory for Research on the City, the Italian Society for Aesthetics, in conjunction with the University of Bologna. Bologna, June 28-30, 2012.

The (Bio)technological Sublime. After Hours Conversation lecture. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, October 2, 2012.

In our (post)modern world it is no longer the superior forces of nature that calls forth the experience of the sublime, but rather, the superior forces of technology. However, with the transfer of power from divine nature to human technology, the ambiguous experience of the sublime also nests in the latter. In the era of converging technologies – information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology and the neurosciences – it is technology itself that gains an ungeheuer character in its battle with nature. Without doubt these technologies have increased our power over nature enourmously.

Jos de Mul. Image without origin. Some remarks on Nietzsche's transcendental metaphor. Xth International Congress of Aesthetics. Montréal, Augustus 19, 1984.

Jos de Mul. Aesthetic Development. A genetic-structuralist approach. Department of Education, Utah University. Salt Lake City, September 18, 1984.

Jos de Mul. Genetic Stucturalism and Conceptual Relativism. XIth International Wittgensteinsymposium te Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 8, 1986.

Jos de Mul. The Logic of Aesthetic Development. Lecture at the 8. Tagung Entwicklungspsychologie, Universität Bern, 16 september 1987.

Jos de Mul. Schopenhauer's philosophy of music. Lecture at the Internationaler Schopenhauer Jubiläumkongreß, Frankfurt am Main, 7 mei 1988.

Jos de Mul. The art of forgetfulness. Schopenhauer and recent repetitive music. Lecture at the XIth International Congress in Aesthetics, Nottingham, 29 september 1988.

Jos de Mul. Dilthey's narrative model of human development and the philosophical hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer. Lezing in het kader van het Eighth International Human Science Research Conference, Aarhus (Denemarken), 22 augustus 1989.

Joa de Mul. History and pluralism. Plessner: postmodern philosopher avant la lettre? Referaat in het kader van het colloquium The Quest for man, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam 21 mei 1990.