Breaking newsMay 2012: "The Ethics of War" parts 1 and 2 are now out in Philosophy Compass. Both articles are co-authored with Greg Reichberg and Henrik Syse.April 2o12: "Semantic Minimalism and the 'Miracle of Communication'" accepted for publication in Philosophical Studies.April 2012: Will be making a guest appearance in Bjørn Ramberg's seminar on inferentialism and pragmatism, University of Chicago, May 10.March 2012: "Concepts and Abilities in Anti-Individualism" is out now in Journal of Philosophy.March 2012: Presenting "Lexical Norms, Language Comprehension, and the Epistemology of Testimony" at University Of Victoria, Friday March 30. Click here for abstract.Jan. 2012: Presenting "The Normativity of Language: Empirical Sources of Counterevidence" at Simon Fraser University, Friday January 20. Click here for abstract.Dec. 2011: Invitation to contribute to online symposium on Jeff McMahan's Killing in War, courtesy of Ethics and the PEASoup Blog.Nov. 2011: Committed to writing introductory section on Stoic and Epicurean philosophy of language for Rob Stainton, Benjamin Hill, Henrik Lagerlund, eds., Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language ( Springer, in preparation).Older news: click here.
Post-Doctoral Fellow (2009-2012) at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), working on a project entitled Cognition and Communication: New Foundations for Contextualism.
Starting 2012, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University.
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
Cand. philol., Philosophy, University of Oslo, 2000.
Research areas
AOS: Philosophy of mind and language; political philosophy
AOC: Metaphysics and epistemology; history of philosophy; philosophy and public policy
