Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
Areas of Competence
Aesthetics, Early Modern, History of Analytic, Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics
Employment and Education
2008-present: Lecturer in Philosophy, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford
2003-2008: D.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford
- Thesis: Semantics, Meta-Semantics, and Ontology
- Supervisors: Dorothy Edgington and John Hawthorne
- Examiners: Stefano Predelli and Gabriel Uzquiano
2001-2003: B.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford
- Thesis: On the Relative Priority of Thought and Language
- Options: Philosophy of Logic and Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, the Authorities for the Rise of Modern Logic
- Tutors: Dan Isaacson, James Logue, and Timothy Williamson
1996-2000: B.A. with Honours in Philosophy, Minor in Linguistics, McGill University
Awards
2004-2007: SSHRC Doctoral Research Fellowship
2001-2004: Marion Buck Scholarship
2000: Prince of Wales Gold Medal, Norman Prentice Award
1998: Elsie Stephen Reford Scholarship
1997: Academic All Canadian
1996-2000: A.S. Hill Entrance Scholarship
1996: Governor General’s Bronze Medal, University of Toronto National Book Award
Papers
Publications
(1) ‘Critical Notice: Scott Soames’ What is Meaning?’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (4): 485-503
(2) ‘Deriving the Norm of Assertion’, forthcoming, Journal of Philosophical Research
(3) ‘Indexical Reliabilism and the New Evil Demon’ (with Michael Blome-Tillmann), forthcoming, Erkenntnis
(4) ‘Knowledge is Normal Belief’, forthcoming, Analysis
(5) ‘The Nature of Testimony: a Williamsonian Account’, forthcoming, Logique et Analyse
(6) ‘Review of Cappelen and Hawthorne’s Relativism and Monadic Truth’, Logical Analysis and the History of Philosophy, 13, pp. 148-155
(7) ‘Review of Horsten’s The Tarskian Turn’, forthcoming, The Philosophical Quarterly
(8) ‘Speech Acts: Natural or Normative Kinds?’, forthcoming, Mind and Language
(9) ‘What is Semantic Content?’, in Baptista and Rast (eds.), Meaning and Context, Peter Lang, Bern, 2010: 187-211
Under Review
(1) ‘Alethic Pluralism and the Role of Reference in the Metaphysics of Truth’
(2) ‘On Assertion, Knowledge, and Acting As If’
(3) ‘Playing Games, Following Rules, and Linguistic Activity’
In Progress
(1) ‘Against Semantic Platonism’
(2) ‘Centred Worlds and Attitude Ascriptions’
(3) ‘Knowledge Claims, Contextualism, and Relativism’
(4) ‘On Comprehension in Second-Order Modal Logic’
(5) ‘On the Very Idea of a Normative Kind’
(6) ‘Stalnaker’s Pragmatics and the Accessibility Relation’
(7) ‘Truth and Existence’
(8) ‘Two-Dimensional Semantics, Apriority, and Quantifying In’
(9) ‘Vagueness and Language Use’
Conference and Colloquium Presentations
(1) ‘Centred Contents and Attitude Ascriptions’: CCC Workshop, Barcelona, 01/06/12
(2) Comments on David Chalmers’ keynote address, ‘The Matrix as Metaphysics’: Oxford University’s 7th Annual Graduate Conference in Philosophy, 15/11/03
(3) ‘Conceptual Realism and Psychological Nominalism’: Mind2006 Conference, University of Sussex, 15/06/06; Graduate Research Seminar, University of Warwick, 28/01/05
(4) ‘Contextualism and Relativism’: McGill University, Montreal, 25/01/08; Glendon College, York University, Toronto, 21/01/08; Context-Dependence, Perspective, and Relativity in Language and Thought 2007 Conference, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 10/11/07; Third Man Seminar, Oxford, 16/10/07
(5) ‘The Epistemology of Testimony: a Williamsonian Perspective’: Departmental Colloquium in Philosophy, University of Warwick, 21/10/09; VAF IV, Leuven, 20/01/10
(6) ‘Modality and the Problem of Predication’: CeLL workshop, Institute of Philosophy, London, 13/03/10
(7) ‘Predicates and Properties in Truth-Conditional Semantics’: HMC meeting, University of Tokyo, 14/02/11
(8) ‘Response to Richard Moore’: MindGrad conference, University of Warwick, 06/12/08
(9) ‘Speech Acts: Natural or Normative Kinds?’: SPR-11, Donostia, 11/11/11; Joint Session, Stirling, 08/07/12
(10) ‘Statements: Truth, Knowledge, and Understanding’: Paris-Oxford Workshop, Paris, 27/06/08
(11) ‘Truth and Existence’: Joint Session, University of East Anglia, 12/07/09
(12) ‘Truth and Reference’: SIFA, University of Padoa, 23/09/10; ENFA4, Evora, 19/09/09; 8th Polish Philosophical Congress, Warsaw, 18/09/08; IHPST, Paris, 10/07/07
(13) ‘Two-Dimensional Semantics, Apriority, and Quantifying In’: ECAP 7, Milan, 01/09/11; Joint Session, University of Sussex, 10/07/11
(14) ‘What is Semantic Content?’: Context and Levels of Locutionary Content, New University of Lisbon, 4/12/09
Teaching
First Year Undergraduate Courses Taught
Introduction to Philosophy; Logic (Introductory); General Philosophy; Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic; Elements of Deductive Logic (Intermediate)
Final Year Undergraduate Courses Taught
History of Philosophy from Descartes to Kant; Knowledge and Reality; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Logic and Language; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Criticism; Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein; Philosophy of Mathematics
Graduate Teaching
Semantics and Metasemantics Seminar; Master’s Level Tuition in the Philosophy of Logic and Language; Master’s Level Tuition on the Original Authorities for the Rise of Modern Logic 1879-1931; Master’s Level Thesis Supervision
Professional Services
Admissions: Undergraduate level Philosophy, St. Anne’s College, Oxford (2008-present)
Examining: Undergraduate level Knowledge and Reality (marking) and Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein (setting and marking), Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford (2012); Master’s Level Philosophy of Language, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Oxford (marking 2011; setting and marking 2012)
Organizer: PPE Society, St. Anne’s College, Oxford (2008 –present); Third Man Seminar, Oxford (2007); Jowett Society, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford (2003-2005); Graduate Conference, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford (2002)
Outreach: PPE Open Day speaker, ‘Philosophy and Forensics’, St Anne’s College, Oxford (2009-present); school visit speaker, ‘Applying to University’, St George’s School, London (2012)
Referee: Southern Journal of Philosophy (2008); Synthese (2009); Philosophical Papers (2012); Mind (2012)
Languages
English (native) and French (fluent): Bilingual Diploma (1996)
References
Available on request
