I have research interests in the philosophy of language & mind, epistemology, and metaethics. I have published articles on Quine, Davidson, Dummett, Grice, meaning and interpretation, conceptual relativism, deflationism, skepticism, self-knowledge, introspection, and ethical expressivism, as well as expression, communication, and origins of meaning, in The Journal of Philosophy, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mind & Language, Philosophical Explorations, Synthese, Dialectica, Philosophical Studies, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and Inquiry, among others, and in many edited volumes.
Recently, I have been working on the topic of continuities between linguistic and non-linguistic communication and expressive behavior. I continue to work on self-knowledge and in metaethics.
In 2010, I founded the "Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning" (ECOM) Research Group. Our website has information about our events, research, publications, and ways to get involved. In summer of 2014, I moved from UNC-Chapel Hill to the University of Connecticut, where ECOM has its home now.
In 2015-16, I was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. I am currently a fellow at the UConn Humanities Institute. This summer I will be on the faculty of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI).
I'm currently working on:
Recently, I have been working on the topic of continuities between linguistic and non-linguistic communication and expressive behavior. I continue to work on self-knowledge and in metaethics.
In 2010, I founded the "Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning" (ECOM) Research Group. Our website has information about our events, research, publications, and ways to get involved. In summer of 2014, I moved from UNC-Chapel Hill to the University of Connecticut, where ECOM has its home now.
In 2015-16, I was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. I am currently a fellow at the UConn Humanities Institute. This summer I will be on the faculty of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI).
I'm currently working on:
- A book manuscript, Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning (tentative title), under contract with OUP
- A paper on the base-less and privileged character of basic self-knowledge
- A paper on Disjunctivism about Self-Knowledge (with Drew Johnson, now forthcoming)
- A volume on Expression and Self-Knowledge for the Wiley series Great Debates in Philosophy (with Crispin Wright)
- A book manuscript, If Truth Be Told: On Deflationism and Substantivism about Truth, with Keith Simmons
- A manuscript titled Neo-Expressivism
