Complete CV (PDF)

Academic Employment

University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2017–present
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2010–2017


Education

University of Texas at Austin, 2005–2010
Ph.D. Philosophy, supervised by Nicholas Asher and Josh Dever

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2001–2005
M.Phil. Philosophy, Logic and Theory of Science

University of Oxford, Oxford, 2003–2004
Visiting Full-Time Undergraduate Student


Research Interests

Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic

Areas of Competence
Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, History of Analytic Philosophy, 20th Century Continental Philosophy


Research Articles

Familiarity Inferences, Subjective Attitudes and Counterstance Contingency: Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Subjective Meaning (with Chris Kennedy), Linguistics and Philosophy 44(6), 1395–1445, 2022

Negating Conditionals, in: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernest Lepore and David Sosa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 234–266, 2022

Assertion, Expression, Experience (with Chris Kennedy), Inquiry 65(7): 821–857, 2022

Perspectival Content and Semantic Composition (with Chris Kennedy), in: Perspectives on Taste, edited by Jeremy Wyatt, Julia Zakkou, and Dan Zeman. New York: Routledge, 207–230, 2022

Two Puzzles about Ability Can, Linguistics and Philosophy 44(3): 551–586, 2021

Simplifying with Free Choice, Topoi 37(3): 379–392, 2018

Lessons from Sobel Sequences, Semantics & Pragmatics 10(4): 1–57, 2017

Advice for Noncognitivists, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 98(S1): 174–207, 2017

Dynamic Foundations for Deontic Logic, in: Deontic Modality, edited by Nate Charlow and Matthew Chrisman. 324-354. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Dynamic Thoughts on Ifs and Oughts, Philosophers’ Imprint 14(28): 1–30, 2014

Dynamics of Epistemic Modality, Philosophical Review 122(1): 45–92, 2013

A Remark on Iffy Oughts, Journal of Philosophy 109(7): 449–461, 2012

Realizing What Might Be, Philosophical Studies 153(3): 365–375, 2011

New Surprises for the Ramsey Test, Synthese 176(2): 291–309, 2010

Der Wahrheitsbegriff in Martin Heideggers Sein und Zeit, Philosophisches Jahrbuch 113(1): 78–98, 2006.


Overviews

Subjectivity, in: Oxford Handbook to Contemporary Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernest Lepore and Una Stojnić. Oxford University Press, forthcoming

An Update on Epistemic Modals, Journal of Philosophical Logic 44(6): 835–849, 2015


Conference Proceedings Publications

Negating Conditionals in Bilateral Semantics, Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium: 407–416, 2019

Widening Free Choice, Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium: 511–520, 2017

Subjective Attitudes and Counterstance Contingency (with Chris Kennedy), Proceedings of SALT XXVI: 913–933, 2016

Simplifying Counterfactuals, Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium: 428–437, 2015

Indicative Scorekeeping, Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium: 249–256, 2013


Reviews and Book Symposia Contributions

Dynamic Semantics versus Dynamic Propositionalism (critical notice on Una Stojnić’s Context and Coherence: The Logic and Grammar of Prominence)
Inquiry, forthcoming

Review of The Modal Future: A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk, by Fabrizio Cariani, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2022.11.04, 2022 (2765 words)

Review of Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals, by Timothy Williamson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2022.02.03, 2022 (2888 words)

Review of Epistemic Modality, edited by Brian Weatherson and Andy Egan, Philosophical Review 122(4): 641–647, 2013


Edited

Reasons, Argumentation and Justification: DEON 2016 Special Issue (with Olivier Roy and Allard Tamminga), Journal of Logic and Computation 29(2): 185–317, 2019

Proceedings of DEON 2016 (with Olivier Roy and Allard Tamminga), London: College Publications


Refereed Presentations

Negating Conditionals in Bilateral Semantics
22nd Amsterdam Colloquium
Amsterdam, December 2019

Two Puzzles about Agentive Can
115th Annual Meeting of the APA Central Division (Symposium)
Chicago, February 2018

Widening Free Choice
21st Amsterdam Colloquium
Amsterdam, December 2017

Widening Free Choice
Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary 2
Amsterdam, December 2017

Subjective Attitudes and Counterstance Contingency (with Chris Kennedy)
PhLiP 2016
Tarrytown, September 2016

Subjective Attitudes and Counterstance Contingency (with Chris Kennedy)
Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26 (Poster Session)
Austin, May 2016

Simplifying Counterfactuals
20th Amsterdam Colloquium
Amsterdam, December 2015

Advice for Noncognitivists
112th Annual Meeting of the APA Central Division (Symposium)
St. Louis, February 2015

Advice for Noncognitivists
Semantic Content Workshop
Barcelona, November 2014

Another Case for Dynamic Conditionals
PhLiP 2014
Tarrytown, September 2014

A Problem with Thinning
111th Annual Meeting of the APA Central Division (Colloquium)
Chicago, February 2014

Indicative Scorekeeping
19th Amsterdam Colloquium
Amsterdam, December 2013

Contrary-to-Duty Obligations and Dynamic Semantics
USC Deontic Modality Workshop
Los Angeles, May 2013

Deontic Paradoxes from a Dynamic Perspective
Reasoning and Interaction at NASSLLI
Austin, June 2012

Nonmonotonic Thoughts on Conditional Oughts
86th Annual Meeting of the APA Pacific Division (Colloquium)
Seattle, April 2012

New Dynamics for Epistemic Modality
106th Annual Meeting of the APA Eastern Division (Symposium)
New York, December 2009

New Dynamics for Epistemic Modality
9th NYU/Columbia Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
New York, March 2009

New Surprises for the Ramsey Test
36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy
Laramie, May 2008

Visual Perceptions: A Plea for Simple Contents
82nd Annual Meeting of the APA Pacific Division (Colloquium)
Pasadena, March 2008

Moore + Ramsey ≠ God
3rd Annual USC/UCLA Graduate Philosophy Conference
Los Angeles, February 2008

Negative Existentials and DRT
35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy
Vancouver, May 2007

In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy
81st Annual Meeting of the APA Pacific Division (Colloquium)
San Francisco, April 2007

In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy
MIND 2006
Bristol, UK, June 2006


Selected Comments

On Floris Roelofsen’s “Might in Questions”
Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary
Broek in Waterland, June 2017

On Andy Egan’s “What I Probably Should Have Said About Epistemic Modals”
5th Annual Philosophy and Linguistics Workshop at Ohio State
Columbus, March 2016

On Sven Lauer and Cleo Condoravdi’s “The Basic Dynamic Effect of In­ter­rog­a­tive Utterances”
13th Texas Linguistics Society Conference
Austin, June 2012

On Theodore Korzukhin’s “Dominance Conditionals and Adams’s Thesis”
109th Annual Meeting of the APA Central Division
Chicago, February 2012

On Jon Litland’s “An Actualist Theory of Properties”
UT Austin Graduate Philosophy Conference
Austin, April 2009

On Kai von Fintel and Thony Gillies’s “Must …Stay …Strong!”
3rd Annual UT/UNAM Conference
Austin, October 2008

On Pedro Stepanenko’s “The Pyrrhonean Reports”
2nd Annual UT/UNAM Conference
Mérida, Mexico, October 2007

On Shawn Standefer’s “Least Common Denominator”
UT Austin Graduate Philosophy Conference
Austin, April 2007

On Michael Allers’s “‘Bruce’: A Predicate”
UT Austin Graduate Philosophy Conference
Austin, April 2006


Selected Honors and Awards

Faculty Research Initiative on An Organon for the Information Age: Ontology-Based Data Integration for Humanistic and Biomedical Research
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago, 2018–2020 (with David Schloen and Samuel Volchenboum)

Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
University of Chicago, May 2016

Faculty Research Initiative on Subjectivity in Language and Thought
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago, 2014–17 (with Chris Kennedy)

Franke Institute Fellowship
Franke Institute for the Humanities, Chicago, Academic Year 2013–14

Cogburn Family Foundation Philosophical Prize
University of Texas, Austin, April 2009

University Continuing Fellowship
University of Texas, Austin, Academic Year 2008–9


Teaching

University of Chicago
Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (PHIL 23413 // FNDL 24308), Winter 2022
MAPH Core Course: Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (PHIL 31414), Autumn 2021
The Epistemology of Deep Learning (PHIL 22962/32962), Spring 2021 (with Anubav Vasudevan)
Philosophical Perspectives II (HUMA 11600), Winter 2021
Philosophical Perspectives I (HUMA 11500), Autumn 2020
Future Contingents (PHIL 58010), Spring 2020
Meaning and Reference (PHIL 24010), Winter 2020
Philosophical Perspectives II (HUMA 11600), Winter 2019
Elementary Logic (PHIL 20100/30000), Autumn 2018
Philosophical Perspectives I (HUMA 11500), Autumn 2018
Meaning and Reference (PHIL 24010/34010), Autumn 2017
Philosophical Perspectives I (HUMA 11500), Autumn 2017
Logic for Philosophy (PHIL 29425/39425), Spring 2017
Human Being & Citizen II (HUMA 12400), Winter 2017
Language and Games (PHIL 53307 // LING 53307), Autumn 2016
Counterfactuals (PHIL 20724), Autumn 2016
Indexicals (PHIL 52015 // LING 52015), Spring 2016
Modality (PHIL 24015/34015 // LING 24015/34015), Spring 2016
Meaning and Reference (PHIL 24010/34010), Winter 2016
Human Being & Citizen II (HUMA 12400), Winter 2016
Logic for Philosophy (PHIL 29425/39425), Winter 2015
Human Being & Citizen II (HUMA 12400), Winter 2015
Subjectivity (PHIL 54605 // LING 54605), Autumn 2014
Reference and Description (PHIL 24025/34025), Autumn 2014
Expressivism (PHIL 53341), Winter 2013
Human Being & Citizen II (HUMA 12400), Winter 2013
Dynamic Semantics (PHIL 20721/30721 // LING 20721/30721), Autumn 2012
Conditionals (PHIL 53340), Winter 2012
Meaning and Reference (PHIL 24010/34010), Winter 2012
Elementary Logic (PHIL 20100/30000), Autumn 2011
Human Being & Citizen I (HUMA 12300), Autumn 2011
Non-classical Logic (PHIL 29420/39420), Spring 2011
Meaning Without Truth (PHIL 52020), Winter 2011
Human Being & Citizen II (HUMA 12400), Winter 2011
Introduction to Philosophy of Language (PHIL 28010/38010), Autumn 2010

University of Texas at Austin
Introductory Symbolic Logic (PHL 313), Spring 2010
Human Nature (PHL 303), Fall 2009


Last updated – January 2023