​I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, where I am working on Robbie Williams's ERC funded Group Thinking project. Previously I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow 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.
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.  

Outside of philosophy I enjoy spending time with my wife Lizzie and my son Oliver. I also enjoy rock climbing, and training for rock 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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Work in Progress/Under Review

(These papers range from pretty much complete to first drafts. Feel free to email for drafts)

A paper on assertoric content and responsibility
A paper on Intentions and intentional action
A paper on group justification
A paper on utterance understanding and epistemology (for a volume on Linguistic Luck)
A paper on defective contexts
(for the Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (eds: Khoo and Sterken))

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