I am a graduate student jointly enrolled in the University of Arizona's PhD program in philosophy, and the JD program at Harvard Law School – the latter of which I have recently concluded.
I am primarily interested in how people talk to each other about what to do. This includes how ordinary people use modals (‘should’), the imperative mood (‘have a seat!’), among other expressions to direct each other in conversation. But it also includes how institutional actors like judges and legislators use language to direct. My dissertation focuses on the latter, with essays at the interface of law and meta-semantics, linguistic pragmatics, and moral …
I am a graduate student jointly enrolled in the University of Arizona's PhD program in philosophy, and the JD program at Harvard Law School – the latter of which I have recently concluded.
I am primarily interested in how people talk to each other about what to do. This includes how ordinary people use modals (‘should’), the imperative mood (‘have a seat!’), among other expressions to direct each other in conversation. But it also includes how institutional actors like judges and legislators use language to direct. My dissertation focuses on the latter, with essays at the interface of law and meta-semantics, linguistic pragmatics, and moral theory.
