Research

Please feel free to email me if you’d like access to any of the papers below.

Books

New Waves in Philosophical Logic co-edited with Greg Restall (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)	Truth in Virtue of Meaning: a defence of the analytic/synthetic distinction (OUP, 2008)	The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, co-edited with Delia Graff Fara (Routledge, 2012)

Papers (published or forthcoming)

• “How to Prove Hume’s Law”
  in Journal of Philosophical Logic, 51:603–632, 2022.
  DOI: 10.1007/s10992-021-09643-3

• “Fancy Loose Talk about Knowledge” (online first)
  in Inquiry.
  DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2021.1990791

• “Logical Pluralism without the Normativity” (with Christopher Blake-Turner)
  Synthese, 198:4859–4877, 2021.
  DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-01939-3

• “Logic: a feminist approach”
  in Philosophy for Girls: An invitation to the life of thought
  Melissa Shew and Kim Garchar (eds) (Oxford University Press, 2020)
  DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190072919.001.0001

• “Logic isn’t Normative”
  Inquiry 63:3-4, 371-388, 2020.
  DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2017.1372305

• “Deviance and Vice: strength as a theoretical virtue in the epistemology of logic”
  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 99, issue 3, 548–563, 2019.
  DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12498

• “Subordinating Speech and Speaking Up”
  in Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language E. Lepore and D. Sosa (eds) volume 1, 178–207, (Oxford University Press, 2019)
  DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198836568.003.0007

• “Breaking the Spell: Waismann’s Papers on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction”
  in Friedrich Waismann: The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy
  D. Makovec and S. Shapiro (eds) pages 159–187 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)

• “Varieties of Logical Consequence by their Resistance to Logical Nihilism”
  in N.Pedersen, N.Kellen, and J.Wyatt (eds.) Pluralisms in Truth and Logic, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) pp.331–361.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98346-2_14

• “Logical Nihilism: could there be no logic?”
  Philosophical Issues, volume 28, issue 1, pages 308–324, 2018.
  DOI: 10.1111/phis.12127

• “An Introduction to Logical Nihilism”
  Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science – Proceedings of the 15th International Congress Hannes Leitgeb, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Päivi Seppälä & Elliott Sober (eds). College Publications. 2017.

• “Indexicals and Sider’s Neo-linguistic Account of Necessity”
  Res Philosophica, Volume 94, Issue 3, pages 385-397, 2017.
  DOI: 10.11612/resphil.1576

• “The Justification of the Basic Laws of Logic”
  Journal of Philosophical Logic, Volume 44, Issue 6, pages 793–803, 2015.
  DOI: 10.1007/s10992-015-9360-z

• “Metaphysical Analyticity and the Epistemology of Logic”
  Philosophical Studies, Volume 171, Issue 1, pages 161-175, 2014.
  DOI: 10.1007/s11098-013-0255-y

• “Hybrid Identities and Just Being Yourself”
  Inquiry, vol.57, No.4, 2014.
  DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2014.905267

• “Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction”
  A Companion to W. V. O. Quine (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) edited by Gilbert Harman and Ernie Lepore (Blackwell, 2014.)

• “Practicing Evil: Training and Psychological Barriers in the Martial Arts”
  Philosophy and the Martial Arts, edited by Graham Priest and Damon Young, (Routledge, 2014).

• “Logical Pluralism”
  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2013, updated 2019) Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

• “The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction”
  Oxford Bibliographies Online (OUP, 2012).
  DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0044

• “Lessons from the Logic of Demonstratives”
  New Waves in Philosophical Logic edited by Greg Restall and Gillian Russell, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).

• “Necessity and Meaning”
  The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language edited by Gillian Russell and Delia Graff Fara (Routledge, 2012).

• “Indexicals, Context-Sensitivity and the Failure of Implication”
  Synthese Volume 183, Issue 2, pages 143-160, 2011.
  DOI:10.1007/s11229-010-9756-9

• “Language, Locations and Presupposition” (penultimate draft)
  Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, vol 9, 2010.

• “A New Problem for the Linguistic Doctrine of Necessary Truth”
  New Waves in Truth, edited by Cory Wright and Nikolaj Pedersen, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).

• “Analyticity in Externalist Languages”
  New Waves in Philosophy of Language, edited by Sarah Sawyer, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).

• “Epistemic Viciousness in the Martial Arts” (penultimate draft, written for a popular audience)
  Martial Arts and Philosophy edited by Graham Priest and Damon Young, (Open Court, 2010)

• “In Defence of Hume’s Law”
  Hume, ‘Is’, and ‘Ought’: New Essays
  edited by Charles Pigden (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).

• “Barriers to Implication” (with Greg Restall—Erdös number: 4!)
  Hume, ‘Is’, and ‘Ought’: New Essays
  edited by Charles Pigden (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).

• “One True Logic?”
  Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 37, no. 6, pages 593-611, April 2008.
  DOI: 10.1007/s10992-008-9082-6

• “Knowledge by Indifference” with John Doris
  Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 86, number 3, September 2008.
  DOI: 10.1080/00048400802001996

• a) “The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction”
  Philosophy Compass, vol. 2, August 2007.
  DOI: 0.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00093.x

• b) The above article also comes with a “teaching and learning guide”, available here.

Book Reviews