New York (NYU) and London (UCL) trained Assistant Professor in Philosophy at UAE University (formerly, Peking University, Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of London) with main research interests in theories of aboutness, truth and truthmaking (esp. truthmaker approaches to semantics and to metaphysics) and their applicability (and inapplicability) to other areas of philosophy, esp. logic & metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind & language, and moral philosophy (e.g. moral language about relations such as trust). Uses of language in which truth does not play a central role (e.g. where we pretend to make…
New York (NYU) and London (UCL) trained Assistant Professor in Philosophy at UAE University (formerly, Peking University, Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of London) with main research interests in theories of aboutness, truth and truthmaking (esp. truthmaker approaches to semantics and to metaphysics) and their applicability (and inapplicability) to other areas of philosophy, esp. logic & metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind & language, and moral philosophy (e.g. moral language about relations such as trust). Uses of language in which truth does not play a central role (e.g. where we pretend to make claims about some subject-matter, such as with fictionalist accounts of numbers) also interest me, especially insofar as they help illuminate uses where it does. I am also interested in the history of philosophy (esp. early modern & early analytical philosophy (especially Russell and Moore)) and topics in metaphysics (independent of truthmaking) such as direct realism and intentionalism (in the metaphysics of reference and perception), worldly indeterminacy (vagueness and the problem of the many), modal anti-reductionism and essentialism (the view that things have their modal properties irreducibly and essentially), presentism, anti-fragmentalism, non-existence, properties and powers, and the nature of agency.
