I am a Lecturer/Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin, School of Philosophy. I am also the Principal Investigator of various research projects funded by the The Icelandic Research Fund, most recently the Genre and Conversation Project. See also The Confused Intentions Project and Insincerity for Fragmented Minds.

I did my PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City and I work on philosophy of language and mind. 

Download my CV by clicking here. And this is my email. I'm happy to advise PhD students in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of linguistics and cognitive science, history of analytic philosophy, and related areas.

My last name is a patronym, so, it’s not really (used as) a name (on its own). But we can pretend.

UPCOMING TALKS/EVENTS

I'll give a talk on numeral reference and number cognition at the New Work on Reference conference at KCL (here), May 2025

I'll give a talk on genre and fiction at the Narratives across Fiction and Non-Fiction conference at Uppsala (here), June 2025

CURRENT WORK

Genre and Conversation, co-authored with Daniel W. Harris
Click here for a draft, comments welcome!

Numbers, Numerals, and Sporky Functions, ready in draft

Millikan on the Biological Categories of Belief and Desire, ready in draft

More Work for Imperatives, under revision

Send me an email if you have questions about my current work.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Inference and Identity (response to Rachel Goodman)
Mind and Language (2024) [philpapers, doi]

Talking About: A Response to Bowker, Keiser, Michaelson
Inquiry (2024) [philpapers, doi]

How to Express Implicit Attitudes
Philosophical Quarterly (2024) [philpapers, doi] 

Authentic Speech and Insincerity
Journal of Philosophy (2023) [philpapers, doi]

The Social Epistemology of Introspection
Mind and Language (2023) [philpapers, doi]

Talking About (book)
Oxford University Press (2022) [OUP Link]