rdw36 - at - cam.ac.ukIn the fall of 2009, I joined the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Before arriving at Cambridge, I held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, which is attached to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Leeds. And before that, I held another postdoctoral position in Leeds, funded by the Analysis Trust. Back in the day, I was a PhD student at the University of Sheffield, where I was supervised by John Divers and Dominic Gregory. My thesis assessed fictionalist accounts of possible objects and I was lucky enough to be examined by Daniel Nolan and Bob Hale. My research interests are located in metaphysics (esp. modality, fictionalisms, metaontology, indeterminacy), the philosophy of language (esp. conditionals, vagueness, metasemantics), the philosophy of logic (esp. logical consequence, the semantic paradoxes) and aesthetics (esp. fiction, depiction, the imagination). More recently, I've become interested in pragmatic presupposition, natural language modals, the rule-following considerations, and some issues related to partial belief. I'm presently writing a series of papers about truth-in-fiction. From time to time, I post on my blog, Carving Nature. For more information about my research, please click here. If you are a Cambridge student looking for course materials, please click here. My main non-philosophical interests are Arsenal FC, the city of Berlin, UK garage and, most of all, Tatjana von Solodkoff. I think MJ Cole and Mala are dons. I am a realist about typographical structure, and maintain that Sabon pt.12 carves nature at its typographical joints. Ontologese is definitely not written in Myriad Pro. |
