Published Articles

Bernard, V. (2025). Sartre on imaginative presence. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 6. https://doi.org/10.33735/phimisci.2025.12110

Bernard, V. (2024). Sartre’s relationalist(-ish) theory of perception. Sartre Studies International, 30(2). https://doi.org/10.3167/ssi.2024.300203  

Conferences

“A Sartrean Case Against Imaginative Presence” American Philosophy Association, Eastern Division (Paper accepted for January 2027 meeting in Boston, MA)

“Sartre on Imaginative Presence” Sartre Studies International, Oxford University UK, July, 2026. (Abstract accepted)

“Sartre on Imaginative Presence” Atlantic Region Philosophy Association (ARPA), Fredericton, NB, October, 2025

“Sartre on Imaginative Presence” CPA 2025, Toronto, June, 2025 

“Disjunctive Dreams: A Disjunctivist Account of the Imagination Model of Dreaming” Philosophy Department Lecture Series, Dalhousie University, August 2024

“Sartre on Dreaming” Capstone Lecture, St. Francis Xavier University, March 2024

“Sartre’s Theory of Perception” North American Sartre Society Conference, Oct. 2021 

“Dreaming and Theories of Perception” Canadian Philosophical Association, June 2021 

“What Dreams Can Tell Us About Perception and Imagination” University of New Brunswick, February 2020 

“Dreams: Percepts or Images” Canadian Philosophical Association, June 2019 

“Qualitative Distinctions of Worth: Charles Taylor and Gary Watson on Human Agency” What is Canadian Philosophy?University of New Brunswick, November 2017