Research

WORKS IN PROGRESS (contact me for drafts)

1.  A paper about generics and dual-systems cognition (R&R at Linguistics and Philosophy)

2.  A paper about cp-laws, generic generalizations, and the objectivity of science (complete draft available)

3.  'Burhan al-siddiqin from the flying man's perspective' (complete draft available)

4.  'A turbulent flight' (slides available)

5.  'Avicennan linguistics: An earlier chapter in the history of rationalist thought' (scattered notes)

6.  A paper about language models

7.  'Perry cases and rationalizing explanations' (with Aidan Gray; roughly 66% complete)

ARTICLES (drafts available on my PhilPeople profile)

1. 'Generics are not quantificational: A new path from language models to semantic theory', forthcoming in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (with Gustavo Cilleruelo Calderón, Emily Allaway, Barry Haddow, and Alexandra Birch)

2. 'The flying man, not as before' , forthcoming in J. McGinnis and M. S. Zarepour, eds., A Companion to Ibn Sina (Blackwell)

3. 'Conscious thought under sensory deprivation: Avicenna's flying man and "I"', 2025 The Monist 108: 318-336.

4. 'Frege cases and rationalizing explanations', 2025 Noûs 59: 517-541 (with Aidan Gray)

5. 'Generic cognition: A neglected source of context sensitivity', 2024 Mind & Language 39: 472-491

6. 'Kalam and cognition', 2024 Islamic Philosophy of Religion: Essays from Analytic Perspectives, edited by M. S. Zarepour (Routledge)

7. 'The onus in "ought"', 2023 Analysis 83: 13-21 (with Brian Rabern)

8. 'Weak generics', 2022 Analysis 82: 405-409

9. 'Frege cases and bad psychological laws', 2021 Mind 130: 1253-1280 (with Aidan Gray)

10. 'A little puzzle about a piece and a puddle', 2020 Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 12: 231-261, edited by K. Bennett and D. W. Zimmerman (runner up for the 2018 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaphysics)

11. 'Semantic deflationism deflated', 2019 Synthese 196: 2435-2454

12. '"Not" again! Another essay about the metaphysics of material objects', 2017 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 94: 711-737

13. 'Is anything just plain good?', 2015 Philosophical Studies 172: 1485-1508 (with Adam Hosein)

14. 'The identity of a material thing and its matter', 2014 Philosophical Quarterly 64: 387-406 (winner of the 2013 Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize)

15. 'Metalinguistic negation and metaphysical affirmation', 2014 Philosophical Studies 167: 497-517.

16. 'Flaws of formal relationism', 2013 Thought 2: 367-376

17. 'Is direct reference theory incompatible with physicalism?', 2011 Journal of Philosophy 108: 255-268 (with Damien Rochford)

18. 'An antinomy about anaphora', 2011 Linguistic Inquiry 42: 509-517

19. 'Context, content, and epistemic transparency', 2010 Mind 119: 1067-1086 (with Ephraim Glick)

BOOK REVIEWS (available here)

1. On Goodness by David Conan Wolfsdorf, 2022 Mind 131: 326-337

2. Fixing Reference by Imogen Dickie, 2017 Analysis 77: 659-662

3. Semantic Perception: How the Illusion of a Common Language Arises and Persists by Jody Azzouni, 2013 Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 

4. Phenomenal Consciousness: Understanding the Relation Between Experience and Neural Processes in the Brain by Dimitris Platchias, 2013 Analysis 73: 196-198

WORKS NO LONGER IN PROGRESS (complete drafts available upon request)

1. 'Another thought about "ought"' (a companion to 'The onus in "ought"', extending the significance of the main thesis; sadly I was convinced that the central argument wouldn't work when I read Paul Pietroski and Norbert Hornstein, 'Does every sentence like this exhibit a scope ambiguity?' — their answer is no, which tells against the way philosophers often conceive of the relation between natural language and the formal languages of logic)

2.  A paper about the indiscernibility of identicals (with Rachel Goodman and Aidan Gray)

3. This paper about metaphysical indeterminacy (with Paul Hovda)