Here are some projects I am presently working on, at various stages of completion.
A theory of the acquaintance requirement on assertions of personal taste, which predicts the evidential features of taste claims on the basis of a general but source-sensitive norm of assertion.
An account of the variation in meaning between the adjectival and adverbial forms of epistemic operators (possible & possibly, certain & certainly, probable & probably), with the aim of interpreting the adverbial forms as illocutionary operators defined over assertoric (as opposed to propositional) content.
A puzzle about privative (fake) and redundant (real) adjectives and their capacity for non-trivial application, and the difficulties accounting for this phenomenon using existent theoretical technology.
I also have strong interests in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, and in the history of philosophy (primarily early modern philosophy & early analytic philosophy).
I've presented this work in various stages at a number of places over the past couple of years.
"Privative Reference"
New Work on Reference, King's College London, May 2025
"Slurs and Focus" (with Jonathan Caleb Kendrick)
1st Dortmund Conference on Philosophy and Society, TU Dortmund, October 2024
"Evidentially expressive adjectives"
3rd Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Language Association, UMass Amherst, September 2024
"Evidence representation and evidential expressivism"
Exploring Expressivism in Ethics Language and Metaphysics, York University, April 2023
"Knowledge, assertion, and judgements of personal taste"
WMU Graduate Conference, Western Michigan University, January 2023
Graduate Philosophy Colloquium, UT Austin, November 2022