About

I am a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. From January 2025, I will be the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project Expressing Value in Language (EVIL, No. 101162444).

My research is primarily in the philosophy of language, formal semantics and pragmatics. I also work on topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, especially when they intersect with linguistic issues. My current research interests include: information structure, quantifier expressions, quantifier variance, natural language truth predicates, slurs, verbal and metalinguistic disputes, category mistakes, attitude reports, gradable adjectives, and evaluative discourse.

Research

  1. One “True” Meaning ±
    2024. Ergo. 11 (29): 769-802.
  2. Good People are Not Like Good Knives ±
    2024. Noûs. 58 (3): 644-668.
  3. Category Mistakes Electrified ±
    2023. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
  4. Experimenting with Every American King ±
    2023. Natural Language Semantics. 31: 349–387.
  5. Not Half True ±
    2023. Mind. 132 (525): 84-112.
  6. Focus on Slurs ±
    2023. (Co-authored with Ashley Shaw). Mind & Language. 38 (3): 693-710.
  7. Paradox and Context Shift ±
    2023. Philosophical Studies (Special Issue). 180 (5-6): 1539-1557.
  8. The Liar Without Relativism ±
    2023. Erkenntnis. 88 (1): 267–288.
  9. How to Have a Metalinguistic Dispute ±
    2021. Synthese. 199: 5603–5622.
  10. 'Quantifier Variance' is Not Quantifier Variance ±
    2021. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 99 (3): 611-627.
  11. Expressions in Focus ±
    2020. Semantics and Pragmatics. 13 (13): 1-46.
  12. Triggering Domain Restriction ±
    2019. Mind & Language. 34 (5): 563-584.

Courses Taught

University of Bristol

PHILM0021 Epistemology and Metaphysics (Spring 2024)   ±
PHIL30077 Philosophy of Psychology (Spring 2023)   ±
PHIL20017 Philosophy of Language (Autumn 2022/2023/2024)   ±
PHIL10005 Introduction to Philosophy A (Autumn 2022/2023/2024)   ±

University of St Andrews

Basic Logic (Autumn 2018)   ±

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