My research interests are in philosophy of mind and action, in epistemology, and – especially – in the intersection of these areas. I am an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick, where I also hold a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2018-2021).
Before coming to Warwick, I held stipendiary lectureships at St. Peter's College and Exeter College in Oxford (2017-18), an Analysis Studentship in the Oxford Philosophy Faculty (2016-17), and a Teaching Assistantship in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (2015-16). I completed my PhD, Action, Intention, and Knowledge, in Cambridge in 2015, under the wonderful supervision of Jane Heal.
Before coming to Warwick, I held stipendiary lectureships at St. Peter's College and Exeter College in Oxford (2017-18), an Analysis Studentship in the Oxford Philosophy Faculty (2016-17), and a Teaching Assistantship in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (2015-16). I completed my PhD, Action, Intention, and Knowledge, in Cambridge in 2015, under the wonderful supervision of Jane Heal.
Research interests
In my PhD and subsequent work, I developed accounts of species of first-person knowledge, especially our knowledge of our own minds and intentional actions. My current Leverhulme ECF project, Epistemological Pluralism, considers the category of propositional knowledge more generally. The overarching aim is to understand the differences and commonalities amongst different species of knowledge, with a view to better understanding the category of knowledge as a whole. In my view, the standard epistemologies on offer in the literature fail to take seriously significant formal differences between the various species of knowledge. This results in epistemologies which are offered as perfectly general, but in fact apply at best to a restricted class of knowledge-types. Click here for more information on this project, and here to read some of my work, much of which connects to these ideas.
I am also interested in more general issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind and action, in philosophical methodology, in the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe, and in the history of philosophy, especially the history of the philosophy of action. You can find out more about these interests on my "Research" page. I have a longstanding and under-developed-but-hopefully-soon-to-be-better-developed interest in the philosophy of psychoanalysis.
I am also interested in more general issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind and action, in philosophical methodology, in the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe, and in the history of philosophy, especially the history of the philosophy of action. You can find out more about these interests on my "Research" page. I have a longstanding and under-developed-but-hopefully-soon-to-be-better-developed interest in the philosophy of psychoanalysis.