OVERVIEW

Welcome to my webpage. I have been a professor in the philosophy department at ASU since the fall of 2006. In that year I also earned a doctorate in philosophy from Rutgers University. In addition, I have a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Tufts University. My main research is in the philosophy of language and related areas. This basically involves investigating how language can be used to express thoughts and to represent the world. I also have interests in the phenomenon of vagueness, epistemology and meta-philosophy.

  

WORK IN PROGRESS (comments greatly appreciated)

Time, Space and Semantic Relativism (Abstract)

Names, Logical Form and Syntactic Externalism (Abstract)

Coreference and Meaning  (Abstract)


PUBLISHED PAPERS

Counting and Indeterminate Identity(Mind, January 2003) (Abstract)


TEACHING

Fall 2006: Seminar on Coreference, Introduction to Philosophy

Spring 2007: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Argument and Exposition

Fall 2007: Introduction to Philosophy, Symbolic Logic

Spring 2008: Modal Logic, Philosophy of Language

Fall 2008: Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Argument and Exposition 


LINKS

Philosophical Gourmet Report (Ranking of philosophy programs and advice for graduate study)

GRE scores by intended graduate major

Cognitive Daily

Tiradito

American Philosophical Association