bio

I am associate professor of philosophy at the University of Reading (UK). My primary research interest is in philosophy of language, with an emphasis on contextualism, experimental semantics and pragmatics, the legacy of ordinary language philosophy, and the meaning of color terms. I am currently doing research on aesthetic judgment and ways of measuring "conceptual inflation".

I received my PhD from the University of Chicago in 2010 and have held postdoctoral research fellowships at Umeå University in Sweden and at the Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris. In 2016-2017, I was an external faculty fellow at Stanford University's Humanities Center. In summer and autumn 2018, I was a visiting scholar at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information. During the summers of 2021-2023 I held a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. I am an editor at Mind & Language.