AboutI'm a philosopher from North Derbyshire, currently Official Fellow and Tutor at St John's College and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
Before joining Oxford, I was a Birmingham Fellow and then Reader at the University of Birmingham (2013-2020), a Fitzjames Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford (2011-2013), and a Jacobsen Fellow at King's College London and the Institute of Philosophy (2010-2011). I studied for a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, under the supervision of Dorothy Edgington and Fraser MacBride. I also took a BA and MA in philosophy at the University of Leeds. My philosophical interests lie at the intersection of metaphysics with philosophy of logic and philosophy of language. I am a Managing Editor for Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy. I've previously held an AHRC Leadership Fellowship for a project called "Higher-Order Metaphysics" (2017-2019), investigating the metaphysics of higher-order logic and applications of higher-order resources within mainstream metaphysics. I've also been a Visiting Fellow at ConceptLab and a Visiting Scholar at MIT and served on The Aristotelian Society's Executive Committee. Contact
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Papers
Unrestricted quantification and the structure of type theory (co-authored with Salvatore Florio)
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (online 2019) published (open access) The proper treatment of identity in dialetheic metaphysics The Philosophical Quarterly (online 2019) draft/published Propositions and cognitive relations Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2019), 2: 119: 157-178 draft/published (free access) podcast: download/iTunes How to unify Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy (2018), 5: 31: 816-842 published (open access) Nominalist realism Noûs (2018), 52: 4: 808-835 draft/published A higher-order solution to the problem of the concept horse Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy (2016), 3: 6: 132-166 published (open access) Object as a determinable Mark Jago (2016) (ed.), Reality Making, OUP draft/published The representational limits of possible worlds semantics Philosophical Studies (2016), 173: 2: 479-50. draft/published reply: Stalnaker (2016), "Models and reality" in Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Verities and truth-values Forthcoming in Lee Walters and John Hawthorne (eds.), Conditionals, Probability, and Paradox: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington, OUP draft Multiple constitution Bennett & Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 9 (2015), ch9 Winner of the Sanders Prize in Metaphysics 2012 draft/published Solitude without souls: why Peter Unger hasn't established Substance Dualism Philosophia (2013) 41: 1: 109-125 Co-authored with Will Bynoe draft/published. Williams on supervaluationism and logical revisionism Journal of Philosophy (2011) 108: 11: 633-641 draft/published. ReviewsReview of Imogen Dickie's Fixing Reference
Philosophy (2017) 92: 1: 148-155 draft/published Realism behind the veil (This is a critical notice of Tim Button's The Limits of Realism.) Analysis (2014) 74: 4: 721-730 draft/published Review of John Heil's The Universe as We Find It The Philosophical Quarterly (2013) 63: 253: 839-841 draft/published PhD ThesisToo Many Cats: The Problem of the Many and the Metaphysics of Vagueness
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