My research is on rationality and philosophy of language. I am especially interested in issues at the intersection of those areas, including the role of vague preferences in communicative intentions, which I presented on most recently at the AAP meeting in Dunedin (although I have been tossing the idea around since Vagueness and Language Use in Paris).

 

You can read some of my work in: "The Problem of Noncounterfactual Conditionals", Philosophy of Science (2009) v. 76 n. 5: 676-688  http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/605798. I have a couple more papers forthcoming on conditionals and their interactions with decision theory and with metaphysical modality.

 

Lately I've returned to the topic of "desire as belief". After giving talks on it last spring around Australia, this winter I presented on it again at a few places near Chicago (as seen in the action shot here http://www.philosophy.northwestern.edu/events/DavidEtlin.html), and am looking forward to discussing it more at the LSE and in Tokyo http://tf-ap.com/program/.

 

I am excited to be participating again in the Formal Epistemology Workshop, being held this year at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.