bio

BA, Philosophy (2003) - State University of New York, Binghamton

Honors Thesis Supervised by Eric Dietrich and Martin Dillon

PhD, Philosophy (2009) - University of Melbourne

Supervised by Graham Priest and Greg Restall.

Research Fellow (2008-09), Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney

ARC project A Paraconsistent Approach to Vagueness (with Mark Colyvan)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010 - 12), University of Melbourne

ARC project, Paraconsistent Foundations of Mathematics.

Lecturer, 2012 - 13, University of Otago.

Senior Lecturer, 2014 - 19, University of Otago

Associate Professor, 2020 - , University of Otago


Awards

2004-8, International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Melbourne International Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne

2010 Research Fellow, "Paraconsistent Foundations of Mathematics" Discovery Grant, Australian Research Council (Chief Investigators: Priest and Restall)

2011 Discovery Early Career Research Award, Australian Research Council (declined)

2012 Otago Humanities Research Grant, "Curry's Paradox" Workshop

2013 Principal Investigator, "Models of Paradox" Marsden Fund Fast Start Grant, Department of Philosophy (3 years)


Associate Investigator, "Non-Classical Analysis" Marsden Fund Fast Start Grant, Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury (3 years)

2014 Early Career Award for Distinction in Research, University of Otago

2020 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation


2022 Principal Investigator, "Paraconsistent Computability Theory" Marsden Grant, Royal Society of New Zealand (3 years)

Positions held

  • Honorary Fellow, University of Sydney, 2009-11

  • Visiting Scholar, University of St Andrews (Arche), March 2011

  • Scholar of Consequence, University of Connecticut, March/April 2011

  • Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne, 2012-14

  • Visiting Research Scholar, University of Connecticut, October/November 2013

  • Visiting researcher, University of Kyoto 2016

... and a proud member of the Logician's Liberation League since 2011.

Service

  • Associate Editor, Analysis 2017-2021

  • Secretary General / Treasurer for the Australasian Association of Logic (since 2012)

  • President, Australasian Association of Logic, 2014

  • Editorial Board Member, Australasian Journal of Philosophy

  • Editorial Oversight Committee, Australasian Journal of Logic

  • Editorial panel member for Thought

  • Editorial panel member for The Reasoner

  • Convener, Otago Logic Group (2012-2016)

  • Convener, Otago Philosophy Club

  • Writer for Mathematical Reviews

Committee membership

  • Association for Symbolic Logic's Committee for Logic in Australasia

  • 2015-16, Australasian Association of Philosophy's Committee for Philosophy in the Community

  • Ozone Research Group, University of Otago

  • Academic Committee, Humanities, Otago

  • ORCID Steering Group, Otago

  • PBRF advice to staff committee, Humanities, Otago

  • Committee for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (representative of the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Humanities), Otago

Program Committee Member

  • PhDs in Logic, 2017

  • LOGICA 2017

  • LOGICA 2016

  • Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications 2015

Referee

Mind

Journal of Philosophy

Analysis

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Philosophical Quarterly

Philosophical Studies

Synthese

Erkenntnis

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Journal of Philosophical Research

Journal of Symbolic Logic

Australasian Journal of Logic

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Review of Symbolic Logic

Studia Logica

Journal of Philosophical Logic

Logique et Analyse

Episteme

Topoi

SATS _ Norther European Journal of Philosophy

Journal of Logic and Computation

IfCoLog Journal of Logics and their Applications

Logic Journal of the IGPL

Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logic

Studies in Logic

Information Sciences

European Journal for Philosophy

Ergo

Thought

Ratio

Mathematical Logic Quarterly

American Philosophical Quarterly

Archive for Mathematical Logic

Inquiry

Teaching Philosophy

History and Philosophy of Logic

Critica

Logic and Logical Philosophy

Logical Investigations

Theoria

Southern Journal of Philosophy

On grant proposals

Australian Research Council

The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

Israel Science Foundation

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

On book proposals

Routledge

Wiley

Conferences Organized

Logic Workshop, October 2018, Dunedin

Kyoto Workshop on non-classical logic II, October 26, 2016

Frontiers of Non-Classicality: Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, January 26-29, 2016, Auckland [link]

Prague Seminar on Non-Classical Mathematics, 11-13 June 2015, Prague [link]

Non-Classical Meta-mathematics, 7-8 February 2014, Dunedin

Curry's Paradox and Paraconsistency, 4 August 2012, Dunedin

Beyond the possible - Remembering Richard Sylvan, 27-29 July 2011, Melbourne[Link]

Paraconsistent Mathematics Workshop, 2-3 August, 2010, Melbourne