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

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

Before coming here, I was a math major at Harvard and a BPhil 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 philosophy of 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 also working on problems in formal semantics, pragmatics, and the metaphysics of persistence and personal identity.


Selected papers

Epistemology Formalized

forthcoming in the Philosophical Review

On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals

forthcoming in Noûs

Scoring Rules and Epistemic Compromise

forthcoming in Mind

Updating as Communication

forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research as 2011 Rutgers Young Epistemologist Prize essay

Subjunctive Credences and Semantic Humility

forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

Four-Dimensionalist Theories of Persistence

forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Solving the Color Incompatibility Problem

forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophical Logic

The Role of Linguistics in the Philosophy of Language

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

On the Pragmatics of Epistemic Modals

University of Texas, Austin, January 2013
California Metaphysics Conference on Linguistics, January 2013

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

Subjunctive Credences and Semantic Humility

Midwest Epistemology Workshop, October 2010

Specifying Desires: Comments on Delia Graff Fara

NYU La Pietra Conference, July 2010

Four-Dimensionalist Theories of Persistence

Carolina Metaphysics Workshop, June 2010
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April 2010

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 615: Contemporary Research in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language