December 2022
I’m a philosopher at the University of Reading. I grew up in Llanelli and did my PhD in philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill, before joining Reading in 2014.
Spring 2023 Office Hours: Friday 3-4pm in my office Edith Morley G65. No appointment needed!
Upcoming Presentations:
My main research project focuses on a cluster of issues around incomplete preferences, unsharp or imprecise credences, and value incommensurability. I am working on a book arguing that these all involve vagueness.
(2021) What does incommensurability tell us about agency? in Value Incommensurability: Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making, edited by Henrik Andersson and Anders Herlitz. Routledge.
(2021) Review of Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics edited by Christopher Cowie and Richard Rowland, at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
(2019) Probabilistic Promotion and Ability, Ergo vol. 6, no. 34. doi:10.3998/ergo.12405314.0006.034
(2019) Can Streumer simply avoid Supervenience?, Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy vol. 16, no. 3 (2019). doi:10.26556/jesp.v16i3.508
(2018) Review of David Sobel’s From Valuing to Value, Analysis, Volume 78, Issue 3, pp. 583-586. doi:10.1093/analys/any045.
(2017) Incommensurability
as Vagueness: a Burden-Shifting Argument, Theoria 83:
341-363. doi: 10.1111/theo.12129
(preprint)
(2016) Tenenbaum and Raffaman on Vague
Projects, the Self-Torturer, and the Sorites, in Ethics
Vol. 126, No. 2, pp. 474-488. doi:10.1086/683533.
(journal
page)
(2014) Heaps and Chains: is the
Chaining Argument for Parity a Sorites?, Ethics Vol. 124,
No. 3, pp. 557-571. doi: 10.1086/674844
(journal
page)
(2014) Borderline Cases and
the Collapsing Principle, Utilitas volume 26, issue 01,
pp. 51-60. doi:10.1017/S095382081300023X
(journal
page)
I mostly teach moral philosophy and mediaeval philosophy. I have also in the past taught epistemology, metaphysics, and logic.
Some documents:
Pragmatically, students in my modules should read these tips for writing an undergraduate essay if I’ll be marking your work.
Dissertation and ILM students. I’m happy to supervise these in most areas of phiosophy—please read this guide for my undergraduate dissertation students if you’ve been assigned to me.