Since 2013 I have been Chair of Logic and Rhetoric at the University of Glasgow and, since 2016, the Editor of The Monist. Previously I was a Reader in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall and have been the Bertrand Russell Visiting Professor at McMaster University where the Russell Archive is held. I have also been a Reader at the University of St. Andrews, where I was a Director of Arché, and at Birkbeck College London.

The focus of my research has always been on how language touches upon reality: how the weight of truth is carried by what exists. This is one of the big questions that philosoph…

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