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 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 Managing Editor for Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy (2019-2023), a Visiting Fellow at ConceptLab, a Visiting Scholar at MIT, and served on the Executive Committee of The Aristotelian Society. Contact
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Edited Volume
PapersHigher-Order Metaphysics: An Introduction
Co-authored with Peter Fritz Chapter 1 of Higher-Order Metaphysics (2024), edited by Peter Fritz and Nicholas K Jones, OUP. archived/published Two Conceptions of Absolute Generality Co-authored with Salvatore Florio Philosophical Studies (online 2023) archived/published (open access) Quantification and Ontological Commitment Chapter 1 of The Routledge Handbook of Properties (2024) edited by A. R. J. Fisher and Anna-Sofia Maurin, Routledge. archived/published Against Representational Levels Philosophical Perspectives: Metaphysics (2022), 36: 140-157. archived/published (open access) Unrestricted Quantification and the Structure of Type Theory Co-authored with Salvatore Florio Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2021) 102: 1: 44-64 (online 2019) published (open access) The Proper Treatment of Identity in Dialetheic Metaphysics The Philosophical Quarterly (2020) 70: 278: 65-92 (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 Chapter 15 of Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington (2021) edited by Lee Walters and John Hawthorne, OUP. draft/published Multiple Constitution Chapter 9 of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 9 (2015), edited by Karen Bennett & Dean Zimmerman, OUP. 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 Robert Trueman, Properties and Propositions: The Metaphysics of Higher-Order Logic
MIND (2023) archived/published Review of Imogen Dickie, Fixing Reference Philosophy (2017) 92: 1: 148-155 draft/published Realism Behind the Veil (This is a critical notice of Tim Button, The Limits of Realism.) Analysis (2014) 74: 4: 721-730 draft/published Review of John Heil, 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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