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)
De Jure Coreference and Transitivity.
[Parts of this paper were presented at the Western APA (2008)]
Philosophy's New Challenge: Experiments and Intentional Action (with Nick Smith, G. Shyam Nair, Peter Marchetto, and Cecilea Mun) [There is some discussion about this paper here. And to see what this research is all about, please read this New York Times article.]
[Parts of this paper will be presented at the AHRC Philosophical Methodology Conference. University of St. Andrews, Scotland (April, 2009)]
Individualistic Conceptions of Names (Abstract)
PUBLISHED PAPERS
Counting and Indeterminate Identity(Mind, 2003) (Abstract) [For a very detailed response to this article, please see chapter 6 of Dominic Hyde's 2008 book Vagueness, Logic and Ontology. An earlier paper by Hyde (which was given as a talk at the University of St. Andrews) also concerning my article can be found here. Richard Heck has a much different response which can be found here.]
[Parts of this paper were presented at the Eastern APA]
Time Dilation, Context and Relative Truth (Forthcoming: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research) (Abstract)
[Parts of this paper were presented at the Mt. Plains Philosophy Conference, Kansas (October, 2008)]
Coreference and Meaning (Forthcoming: Philosophical Studies) (Abstract)
[Parts of this paper were presented at the Western APA (2008), Arizona State University, Rutgers University, Southern Methodist University, Vassar College and UCLA]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
Spring 2009: Seminar on Relativism, Philosophy of Language
LINKS
Links to the four members of my dissertation committee: Kit Fine, John Hawthorne, Stephen Neale (Chair) and Ted Sider.
Philosophical Gourmet Report (Ranking of philosophy programs and advice for graduate study)
GRE scores by intended graduate major (Philosophy does really well!!)
New York Times Article on the increasing popularity of the philosophy major.
American Philosophical Association
