I (pictured, feeding sheep) work in the Philosophy department at Sheffield University, as does my wife, Rosanna (and Rosanna's brother Simon works in the Music department). Maybe we'll manage someday to get our daughters Lydia (pictured, looking doubtful) and Miranda (also pictured, beaming) on board too. I am the department's only Yorkshireman. I was an undergraduate at UCL. I then did an MPhil and a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, studying under Alex Oliver (and living for one year in Wittgenstein's famous set of rooms in Whewell's Court). That was followed by a stint as a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. I've been at Sheffield since 2004. My main purpose for creating this site is to avoid having to use the dreadful web tools provided by my employers, so that I can easily do things like provide downloadable versions of academic work that I've done; but other stuff may end up on here too. I've done work in a range of areas of philosophy, including formal and philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language. Most of my published work has revolved around modality. More recently, though, I've become possessed by the desire to work out the details of an account of the especially sensory contents which belong to the enormous range of actual and merely possible forms of representation which capture how things look or sound or ... But there's more on all that within. Welcome! |  |