​I am a postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy at the University of Oslo, affiliated with CSMN and ConceptLab. I  completed my PhD at the University of St Andrews (2011-2015),  where I was affiliated with the Arché Philosophical Research Centre.   I was supervised by Herman Cappelen and Brian Weatherson, and my examiners were Lizzie Fricker and Patrick Greenough. Before that I completed my BA and MA in philosophy at the University of Leeds.

My research interests are pretty broad. In particular I have interests in epistemology (especially testimony, knowledge, and social epistemology), the philosophy of language (communication and metasemantics), and the philosophy of action (especially intentions and intentional action). But this by no means exhausts interests.

At the moment the guiding theme in much of my research is the topic of shared content. I am skeptical about the ubiquity of shared content. This skepticism has various sources. But most of my current research does not focus on the sources of my skepticism. Rather, I am interested in how far we can get without shared content. Shared content seems to be central to many clearly ubiquitous social phenomena: communication/testimony, agreement and disagreement, group knowledge and belief, group action and intention, and the grounding of social facts. If this is right then any theory of mind or language in tension with the apparent ubiquity of shared content is in big trouble. I am interested in whether or not we really do need shared content to account for such phenomena, and thus how big of a problem it is if we cannot secure it. You can find my CV here.

In addition to my research activities I also teach. Click here for some syllabi for courses I have taught or would like to teach.  I also often organize conferences. I am currently co-organizing the Oxford/ConceptLab 'Linguistic Meaning: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics' conference (with Natalia Waights Hickman, Joey Pollock, and Herman Cappelen). 

Outside of philosophy I enjoy spending time with my wife Lizzie, my son Oliver, and my cat. I also enjoy climbing, and training for climbing.

Publications

'Testimonial Worth', forthcoming in Synthese
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'Knowledge-Yielding Communication', forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
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'Testimonial Knowledge-How', forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
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'Normal Knowledge: Toward an explanation based theory of knowledge' (with Eli Pitcovski), The Journal of Philosophy, vol 115, issue 3, 2018.
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'Lost in Transmission: Testimonial Justification and Practical Reason' (with Eli Pitcovski), Analysis, vol 77 issue 2, 2017.
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'Etiology, Understanding, and Testimonial Belief',  Synthese, vol 195, issue 4, 2018.
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'Referential Intentions and Communicative Luck',  Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol 95, issue 2, 2017.
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'Epistemic Injustice in Utterance Interpretation', ​Synthese, vol 194, issue 9, 2017.
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'Testimonial Knowledge Without Knowledge of What is Said', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol 99, issue 1, 2018.
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'Testimony and the Epistemic Uncertainty of Interpretation', Philosophical Studies, vol 173, issue 2, 2016. 
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'Testimony, Pragmatics, and Plausible Deniability', Episteme, vol 12, issue 1, 2015. 
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Papers in Progress

(Drafts avalible on request) 

Under Review

.A paper on intentions.
A paper on defective contexts (for The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosohy of Language)​.

In Progress

A paper on the nature of utterance meaning.
A paper on communicative intentions.
​A bunch of inter-related stuff on knowledge.

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