I am a PhD student in philosophy, in the Research School of Social
Sciences, at the Australian National University. My main interests are
in language, logic, and information. This includes interest in
indexicality and
context-dependence, modal and epistemic logics, two-dimensionalism and multiple indexing, the semantics of names, variables, and quantification, the semantics of quotation, and the
semantics of
epistemic discourse---and at a more general level the relationship between formal semantics and the theory of communication. I also spend a lot of time thinking about various
puzzles and paradoxes having to do with truth, knowledge, minds, and the world. My dissertation project is on foundational issues in compositional semantics and context-dependence, under the supervision of David Chalmers, Jonathan Schaffer and Daniel Nolan---more specifically, I am working on problems that arise when context-sensitive expressions are embedded in various shifty environments. (For the details see my dissertation summary.) Papers [comments welcome]
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