
Breaking newsJan. 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).Nov. 2011: Invitation to speak at Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Victoria, March 3o, 2012. Topic: "Lexical Norms, Language Comprehension, and the Epistemology of Testimony." Click here for abstract.Oct. 2011: Committed to writing paper for Thom Brooks, ed., New Waves in Global Justice (Palgrave-MacMillan, in preparation). Provisional topic: the role of military force as a policy tool in the theory of global justice.Oct. 2011: "The Ethics of War. Part II: Contemporary Authors and Issues" (co-authored with Gregory Reichberg and Henrik Syse) forthcoming in Philosophy Compass.Sept. 2011: "The Ethics of War. Part I: Historical Trends" (co-authored with Gregory Reichberg and Henrik Syse) forthcoming in Philosophy Compass.May 2011: In Prague to present "Lexical Norms, Language Comprehension, and the Epistemology of Testimony" at the conference Normativity of Meaning: Sellarsian Perspectives.Sept. 2010: "Concepts and Abilities in Anti-Individualism" forthcoming in Journal of Philosophy.
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