About

I am a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. I am also 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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