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
Two Conceptions of Absolute Generality
Co-authored with Salvatore Florio Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies archived version Quantification and Ontological Commitment Forthcoming in Routledge Handbook on Properties edited by Anthony Fisher and Anna-Sofia Maureen archived version Against Representational Levels Forthcoming in Philosophical Perspectives 36, Metaphysics, edited by John Hawthorne and Jason Turner archived version 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 Lee Walters and John Hawthorne (2021) (eds.), Conditionals, Paradox, and Probability: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington, OUP. draft/published 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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