Department of Philosophy
2215 Angell Hall, 435 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

I am an Associate Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Michigan.

Before coming here, I was a math major at Harvard and a B.Phil. student at Oxford. I received my Ph.D. from the Linguistics and Philosophy department at MIT in June 2009.

Recently my work has focused on questions connecting language and epistemology: what semantic theories accommodate intuitive norms governing credences in counterfactuals, how updating de se credences resembles communicating de se beliefs, and how we can know non-propositional contents of assertion. I am currently writing a book that defends a unified probabilistic account of the contents of assertion, belief, and knowledge.


Selected papers

Subjunctive Credences and Semantic Humility

forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

Epistemology Formalized

Philosophical Review vol. 122, no. 1 (2013): 1-43.

Four-Dimensionalist Theories of Persistence

Australasian Journal of Philosophy vol. 90, no. 4 (2012): 671-86.

Updating as Communication

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 85, no. 2 (2012): 225-48.

On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals

Noûs vol. 46, no. 3 (2012): 561-86.

Solving the Color Incompatibility Problem

Journal of Philosophical Logic vol. 41, no. 5 (2012): 841-51.

The Role of Linguistics in the Philosophy of Language

Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Delia Fara and Gillian Russell, eds. Routledge, 2012.

Scoring Rules and Epistemic Compromise

Mind vol. 120, no. 480 (2011): 1053-69.

Time-Slice Epistemology

NYU-Columbia Graduate Conference Keynote Address, April 2013

Probabilistic Contextualism

University of Texas, Austin, January 2013

On the Pragmatics of Epistemic Modals

Michigan Linguistics and Philosophy Workshop, December 2012

Credal Dilemmas

University of Vermont, September 2012
Oxford University, June 2012
Formal Epistemology Workshop, May 2012
Tufts University, April 2012

Epistemology Formalized

Lofoten Epistemology Conference, May 2012
Princeton University, April 2012
Rutgers University, November 2011
University of St Andrews, November 2011
Yale University, October 2011
Syracuse University, October 2011
Formal Epistemology Workshop, May 2011
Orange Beach Epistemology Workshop, May 2011
University of Pittsburgh, March 2011

The Dynamics of Indefinites: Comments on Karen Lewis

Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2011

Updating as Communication

Rutgers Epistemology Conference, May 2011
University of Toronto, October 2009
Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2009
Formal Epistemology Workshop, June 2009
APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2009

Phil 297: Honors Introduction to Philosophy

Phil 383: Knowledge and Reality

Phil 404: Introduction to Analytic Philosophy

Collected problem sets for Phil 404: Introduction to Analytic Philosophy

Phil 413: Formal Methods in Philosophy

Collected problem sets for Phil 413: Formal Methods in Philosophy

Phil 611: Conditionalization and Its Discontents

Collected problem sets for Phil 611: Conditionalization and Its Discontents

Phil 611: Semantics Beyond Truth Conditions

Phil 615: Contemporary Research in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language