School of Liberal Arts

Education

• PhD Stanford University 2008
• BA UCLA 2001

Academic interests

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

Teaching

Frequently taught courses:

Introduction to Philosophy (P110)

Symbolic Logic (P265)

Philosophy of Mind (P360/P561)

Epistemology (P369/P562)

Metaphysics (P385/P560)

Philosophy of Language (P368/P520)

Awards

Visiting Research Fellowship, Merton College, Oxford, 2014

Templeton Philosophy of Religion Essay Prize, 2012

Publications

Articles 

How to Solve the Puzzle of Dion and Theon Without Losing your Head. Forthcoming. Mind. 

What Do the Folk Think About Composition and Does it Matter? (With Daniel Z. Korman). 2017. In David Rose, ed., Experimental Metaphysics, Bloomsbury Academic, 187–206.

Composition. (With Daniel Z. Korman.) 2016. Oxford Handbooks Online. 

Deep Platonism. 2016. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92.2: 307–326. 

Toward a Commonsense Answer to the Special Composition Question. 2015. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 93.3: 475–90. 

Quantification and Conversation. 2012. In Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein, eds., Reference and Referring: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy v. 10, MIT Press, 305–324. 

Vague Composition without Vague Existence. 2011. Nous 45.2: 315–327. 

Universals. 2010. Philosophical Studies 150.3: 373–389. 

Book Reviews

Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics, by Thomas Hofweber. 2018. Review of Metaphysics 71.4: 810–812.

Philosophical Logic: An Introduction to Advanced Topics, by George Englebretsen and Charles Sayward. 2013. Teaching Philosophy 36: 420–423. 

The Universe As We Find It, by John Heil. 2013. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.