I am a philosopher at the University of Manchester, England. My chief research interests are in philosophy of language, mind and action. I work on problems about the nature of intentionality, mental content, singular reference, de re belief, puzzles about belief, propositional attitudes, how de re and de dicto attitude ascriptions explain action, the existence and nature of propositions, including the idea that propositions are act or event types, and the closely related multiple relation theory of judgement. I am also interested in the history of analytic philosophy (especially Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap and Quine) and nineteenth- and tw…

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