About me

I'm a postdoctoral research fellow and convener of the Self-Knowledge pilot project at the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. I did my PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was supervised by Mark Sainsbury. Before that I was an undergraduate and a masters student in the philosophy department at the University of St Andrews. I work mostly on issues in epistemology, philosophy of language and, increasingly, philosophy of mind. My principal research topics just now include: knowledge, justification, and the relationship between them; scepticism of various sorts; assertion and other speech acts; and challenges to the epistemic distinctiveness of self-knowledge from philosophy and cognitive science.

Research

(For more on my research, including preprints of publications, please visit my Academia.edu page here.)

Papers:

- 'The Problem of True-True Counterfactuals' (2012), Analysis 72: 276-85.

- 'Interpretation and Knowledge Maximization', forthcoming in Philosophical Studies

- 'Believing Things Unknown', forthcoming in Noûs

- 'Justification as "Would-Be" Knowledge', forthcoming in Episteme

Reviews:

- 'Review of A. Hatzimoysis (ed.), Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press', in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

- 'Review of P. Carruthers, The Opacity of Mind, Oxford University Press', forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly

- 'Review of S. Bernecker and D. Pritchard (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, Routledge', forthcoming in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism

10-Minute Puzzle

Federico Luzzi and I have started a podcast called the 10-Minute Puzzle, aimed at bringing contemporary philosophy to a wider audience. In each episode we try to briefly and clearly introduce a philosophical problem, explaining why it's important, how we might begin to get to grips with it, and what we might learn in the attempt. For episodes and more information, please see our website.

Contact

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