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Employment
Colorado State University, Associate Professor, 2019—
Colorado State University, Assistant Professor, 2013–2019
Texas Tech University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2011–2013
Education
University of Michigan, Ph.D. (Philosophy), 2004–2011
University of Washington, B.A. (Philosophy), 1999–2003
Specializations
Logic, machine learning
Competencies
Statistical data analysis, formal semantics, practical reasoning
Publications
"Paradoxes and the Limits of Theorizing about Propositional Attitudes" (penultimate draft), Synthese, 198, pp. 1075–1094, 2021. The published version is available via Springer: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01902-2
"Variable Priorities and Exclusionary Reasons in Input/Output Logic" (corrected version), Journal of Philosophical Logic, 47, pp. 947–964, 2018. The published version, which contains a minor error that is described and corrected in the version linked above, is available via Springer: http://rdcu.be/F7mQ
"Paradoxes and Restricted Quantification: A Non-Hierarchical Approach" (penultimate draft), Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 7, pp. 190–199, 2018. The published version is available via Wiley: https://rdcu.be/4J2J
"Montagovian Paradoxes and Hyperintensional Content" (penultimate draft), Studia Logica, 105, pp. 153–171, 2017. The published version is available via Springer: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-016-9685-9
"Outline of a Theory of Quantification" (penultimate draft), The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica, Nicholas Griffin and Bernard Linsky, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 337–365, 2013
"Paradoxes of Intensionality" (published version, ©ASL), with Richmond H. Thomason, Review of Symbolic Logic, 4, pp. 394–411, 2011
"Intensionality and Paradoxes in Ramsey's 'The Foundations of Mathematics' " (published version, ©ASL), Review of Symbolic Logic, 3, pp. 1–25, 2010
Book Review of Education for Thinking by Deanna Kuhn (penultimate draft), Teaching Philosophy, 33, pp. 428–432, 2010
Presentations
"Preordered Norms in Formal Argumentation", ArgStrength2021 – The Third Workshop on Argument Strength, University of Hagen, October 2021
"Increment and Threshold Approaches to Nonmonotonic Logic", AMANDE – Argument Strength Workshop, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Université Paul Sabatier, April 2018
"Hyperintensionality and the Paradox of the Knower", Workshop on Higher-Order Metaphysics, University of Oslo, June 2016
"Paradoxes and Restricted Quantification: A Non-Hierarchical Approach", Minorities and Philosophy conference, Stanford University, May 2016
"Resolving Paradoxes by Restricting Only Some Propositional Quantification", Association for Symbolic Logic, Chicago, March 2016
"Still More on the Paradox of the Knower without Epistemic Closure", Formal Epistemology Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis, May 2015
"How Much Hyperintensionality is Too Much?" Association for Symbolic Logic, San Diego, April 2014
"Paradoxical Constraints on Theorizing about Propositional Attitudes", Logic Workshop at Buenos Aires – A Tribute to Horacio Arló-Costa, Argentine Society for Philosophical Analysis (SADAF), August 2012
"Paradoxical Constraints on Theorizing about Propositional Attitudes", Australasian Association of Logic, Sydney, June 2012
"Outline of a Theory of Quantification", PM@100: Celebrating 100 years of Principia Mathematica, McMaster University, May 2010
Teaching
Graduate seminars
The Logic of Reasons
Paradoxes
Formal Tools in Philosophy
Upper-level undergraduate courses
Intermediate Logic (Gödel's incompleteness theorems)
Intermediate Logic (soundness and completeness of first-order logic)
Formal Tools in Philosophy
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Descartes and Hume
Philosophy of Religion
Lower-level undergraduate courses
Introduction to Formal Logic
Critical Thinking and Introduction to Logic
Introduction to Philosophy
Service
Referee for Mind, Analysis, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Philosopher's Imprint, Studia Logica, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
Mentor for philosophy graduate student instructors, University of Michigan, 2009–2010
Honors
Selected for ACLS New Faculty Fellows program, 2013–2015 (became ineligible due to tenure-track offer)
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2009–2010
Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2007
Weinberg Summer Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2005