CV

(updated: August 2012)


academic appointments
2007- Fairfax Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol College, Oxford
CUF Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford
2005-2007 Junior Research Fellow, The Queen’s College, Oxford
visiting appointments
2010 Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
education
2004-2007 DPhil in Philosophy, University of Oxford.
Title: ‘Category Mistakes’; Supervisor: Timothy Williamson
2002-2004 BPhil in Philosophy, University of Oxford
Options: Aristotle, Formal Logic, Philosophy of Logic and Language
1998-2002 BSc in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Computer Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

publications

book

Category Mistakes, under contract with Oxford University Press


papers

  • ‘Semantic Sovereignty’, (with Stephen Kearns), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
  • ‘Strict Finitism and the Happy Sorites’, Journal of Philosophical Logic 41 (2012): 471-491
  • ‘Arbitrary Reference’, (with Wylie Breckenridge), Philosophical Studies 158 (2012): 377-400
  • ‘Arguments by Leibniz’s Law in Metaphysics’, Philosophy Compass 6 (2011): 180-195.
  • ‘Assertion and Epistemic Opacity’, (with John Hawthorne), Mind 119 (2010): 1087-1105.
  • ‘Natural Language and How We Use It: Psychology, Pragmatics, and Presupposition’, (extended critical notice of Soames, Philosophical Essays vol. 1), Analysis 70 (2010): 160-174.
  • ‘Category Mistakes are Meaningful’, Linguistics & Philosophy 32 (2009): 553-581.
  • ‘The Last Dogma of Type-confusions’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (2009): 1-29.
  • ‘Assertion, Context, and Epistemic Accessibility’, (with John Hawthorne), Mind 118 (2009), pp. 377-197.
  • ‘Epistemicism about vagueness and Meta-linguistic Safety’, (with Stephen Kearns) Philosophical Perspectives 22 (2008), pp. 277-304.
  • ‘Another Note on Zeno’s Arrow’, Phronesis 53 (2008), pp. 359-272.
  • ‘Strict Finitism Refuted?’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society VII (2007): 403-411.

book reviews

  • Review of Peter Ludlow, The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics, Analysis (forthcoming)
  • Review of Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World, Philosophical Review 119 (2010), pp. 384-391.


selected talks (by topic)

Forthcoming talks

  • Colloquium, Rutgers University (TBA)

Arbitrary reference

  • Reference Workshop, University of Oslo (CSMN), August 2007
  • Philosophical Logic Workshop, University of Oxford, March 2008
  • Analytic Philosophy of Mind and Language, Maison Francaise, Oxford,December 2011

Assertion, context, and epistemic accessibility

  • Second Oxford-Paris Philosophy of Language Workshop, Oxford, June 2007
  • UCL Linguistics Department, May 2008
  • Assertion Workshop, University of St. Andrews (Arché/CSMN), May 2008
  • Formal Philosophy Seminar, , University of Leuven, March 2009

Assertion and epistemic opacity

  • Departmental Seminar, University of Nottingham, March 2011
  • Logic, Language, and Metaphysics Seminar, University of Leeds, March 2011

Category mistakes (various papers)

  • Fifth Annual Columbia/NYU graduate conference, New York, 2005
  • Departmental Colloquium, Rutgers University, February 2006
  • Departmental Colloquium, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 2006
  • Departmental Colloquium, MIT, January 2007
  • Departmental Colloquium, University of Durham, November 2007

Conditional justification

  • Sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Krakow, August 2008

Epistemicism about vagueness and meta-linguistic safety

  • The London Logic and Metaphysics Form, The Institute of Philosophy, November 2007
  • Vagueness and Language Use, Éccole Normale Supérieure, Paris, April 2008
  • Phlox Inaugural Workshop, Berlin, September 2008

The last dogma of type confusions

  • The Aristotelian Society, London, October 2008
  • Mathematical Methods in Philosophy Workshop, University of Bristol, September 2008
  • Philosophical Society, University of Oxford, May 2009

The myth of the De Se

  • Keynote talk at SPR-11, University of Basque Country, November 2011
  • De-Se Workshop, Arché Centre, University of St. Andrews, December 2011
  • Colloquium, Reading University, March 2012
  • Colloquium, Brown University, March 2012
  • Departmental Seminar, The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, University of Oxford, April 2012

Reflections on Leibniz’s Law

  • Conference in honour of Dorothy Edgington, Institute of Philosophy, London, May 2011

Semantic sovereignty

  • Third Oxford-Paris workshop on Language and Ontology, Paris, June 2008
  • Departmental Seminar, University of Manchester, March 2009
  • Senior Seminar, University of Leeds, March 2009
  • Logos Colloquium, University of Barcelona, April 2009
  • Work in Progress Seminar, MIT, February 2010
  • Departmental Seminar, Boston University, March 2010
  • Departmental Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, May 2010
  • University of Oslo (CSMN), August 2011

Strict finitism and the happy sorites

  • Workshop on Vagueness and Metaphysics, University of Barcelona, June 2009
  • Logic Group, University of Connecticut, February 2010
  • Institut Jean-Nicold, Paris, February 2011

Strict finitism refuted?

  • The Finitism, Intuitionism, and Computation Work Group, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 2006
  • The Oxford Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar, May 2006
  • Graduate Session of the Mind Association and Aristotelian Society Joint Sessions, July 2006

Commentaries and responses

  • Gideon Rosen, ‘”Mistake of fact” and moral blame’, SOFIA, Mexico, January 2007
  • Timothy Williamson, ‘Reference, inference and the semantics of pejoratives’, Implicature Workshop, University of Oslo (CSMN), November 2007
  • Nate Charlow, ‘Proper names, presuppositions, and the a priori’, Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conference, November 2007
  • Sarah Moss, ‘On the pragmatics of counterfactuals’, BSPC, August 2008
  • Adam Stewart-Wallace, ‘Real, impoverished, and imperial context shifting arguments’, Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conference, November 2008
  • Jeff King, ‘Questions of Unity’, Philosophical Logic Workshop, Princeton University, May 2009
  • Mihaela Poppa, ‘Pure Semantics facing the Psychological Reality Charge’, Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conference, November 2009.
  • Sean Aas, ‘Necessity and (as?) normativity’, APA Eastern Division, Boston, December 2010
  • Dean Zimmerman, 'Materialism, dualism, and “simple” theories of personal identity', Oxford Metaphysics Workshop, September 2011


teaching

(*not including graduate supervision)


undergraduate lectures

  • Philosophy of Logic and Language (2008, 2009)

graduate lectures and seminars

  • Metaphysics and Epistemology BPhil Seminar (2007, with Antony Eagle)
  • Introduction to Semantics for Philosophy Graduate Students (2008, with Timothy Williamson)
  • Metaphysics and Epistemology BPhil Seminar (2009, with Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra)
  • Philosophy of Logic and Language BPhil Seminar (2009, with Cian Dorr)
  • Philosophy of Logic and Language BPhil Seminar (2010)
  • Seminar for First Year Graduate (2011, with John Hawthorne)
  • Between Semantics and Pragmatics, Graduate Seminar (2011)

undergraduate tutorials & Classes (multiple times)

  • Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic
  • General Philosophy
  • History of Philosophy from Descartes of Kant (esp. Descartes, Hume, Locke)
  • Knowledge and Reality
  • Logic: Introduction to Logic; Elements of Deductive Logic; Formal Logic;
  • Philosophy of Logic and Language
  • Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Undergraduate Thesis Supervision


selected external service

  • Member of the Editorial Board of Disputatio
  • Referee for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, BSPC, Disputatio, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Linguistics and Philosophy, Mind, Philosophia, Philosophical Quarterly, Ratio, and Synthese.
  • Editor of the ‘Assertion’ category in PhilPapers
  • Member of the research network, Metaphysical Indeterminacy (AHRC-funded project at University of Leeds).
  • Academic advisor for the Open University, Israel
  • PhD examiner, University of Oslo (Torffin Huvenes, ‘Disagreement, Context and Relative Truth’, August 2011)
  • PhD examiner, University of Leeds (Mirja Holst, 'Ordering Semantics for Incomplete Descriptions', April 2012)
  • Intensive research seminar at the Logic, Language, and Cognition Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (January 2012)
  • Appointment committee for non-stipendiary JRF in Philosophy, Jesus College, Oxford (June 2011)
  • Appointment committee for postdoctoral research fellowship in philosophical logic, University of Oslo (May 2012)


selected internal service

University of Oxford

  • BPhil Course Co-ordinator (2011-2013)
  • Graduate Studies Committee (2008-continuing)
  • Submitted successful application to the Mellon foundation, for Mellon Career Development Fellowship in Semantics (2009)
  • Appointment committee for Mellon Career Development Fellowship in Semantics (2009)
  • Appointment committee for Departmental Lectureship (vice Prof. Williamson) (2010)
  • Appointment committee for CUF Fellowship at Corpus Christi College (faculty representative) (2011)
  • Range of examining duties (multiple service as: assessor for Philosophy of Logic and Language, Knowledge and Reality; PPE examiner; BPhil Thesis assessor; BPhil assessor for Philosophy of Logic and Language; Assessor for Confirmation of Status application)
  • Philosophy Faculty Panel

Balliol College

  • Organising Philosophy tutor for PPE
  • Head of Balliol PPE (HT-TT 2012)
  • College Academic Committee (2009)
  • Appointment committee for the Junior Research Fellowships in Arts & Social Science (2009)
  • Undergraduate admission interviews
  • College Governing Body and Tutorial Board




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