CV

Employment

  • University of Calgary, Professor, 2023-present
  • University of Calgary, Associate Professor, 2016-2023.
  • University of Calgary, Assistant Professor, 2014 – 2016.
  • Boston University, Assistant Professor, 2009 – 2014.

Education

  • Ph.D. Philosophy, Cornell University, 2009.
  • M.A. Philosophy, University of Colorado, 2005.
  • B.A. Philosophy, Brandeis University, 2002.

Publications

  • Property Versatility and Copredication (with Ofra Magidor) Oxford University Press, 2025.
  • “Partialhood,” Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol. 14, 2025: 131-175.
  • “Ambiguity Tests, Polysemy, and Copredication” (with Ofra Magidor), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102(3), 2024: 551-60.
  • “Alien Languages and Linguistic Structure,” Festschrift for Matti Eklund, ed. Andreas Stokke, Uppsala University, 2024.
  • “Copredication and Meaning Transfer,” (with Ofra Magidor) Journal of Semantics 40(1), 2023: 69-91.
  • “Generics and the Metaphysics of Kinds” (with Rachel Sterken), Philosophy Compass 16 (7) (2021): 1-14.
  • “Double-Counting and the Problem of the Many” Philosophical Studies, 178 (2021): 209-234.
  • “Copredication, Counting, and Criteria of Indivdiuation: A Response to Gotham,” (with Ofra Magidor) Journal of Semantics, 36(3) 2019: 549-561. 
  • “Meaning Transfer Revisited” (with Ofra Magidor) Philosophical Perspectives, 32(1) (2018): 254-297.
  • “The Normativity of Meaning.” in The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity.  Ed. Daniel Star (2018).
  • “Copredication and Property Inheritance,” (with Ofra Magidor) Philosophical Issues 27(1) (2017): 131-166.
  • “Counting as a Type of Measuring,” Philosophers’ Imprint 16(12) (2016): 1-25. 
  • “Sodium-Free Semantics: The Continuing Relevance of the Concept Horse,”  in Philosophy and Logic of Predication. ed. Piotr Stalmaszczyk (2016).
  • “Does Vagueness Underlie the Mass/Count Distinction?”  Synthese 193(1) (2016): 185-203.
  • “We Do Not Count By Identity,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93(1) (2015): 121-42.
  • “Predication as Ascription,”  Mind 124 (2015): 517-69.
  • “Quantifier Variance, Intensionality, and Metaphysical Merit,” in Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers. Ed. Alessandro Torza (2015).
  • “Relations and Order-Sensitivity,” Metaphysica 15(2) (2014):  409-429.
  • “Necessarily, Sherlock Holmes is not a Person,” Analytic Philosophy 55(3) (2014): 306-318.
  • “Converse and Identity,”  dialectica 67(2) ( 2013): 137-55.
  • “Some Puzzles About Some Puzzles About Belief,” Analysis 72.3 (2012): 608-618.
  • “Causation and the Canberra Plan,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 92.2 (2011): 232-242.
  • “Simple Generics,” Noûs 45.3 (2011): 409-442. (Reprinted in Philosopher’s Annual XXXI.)
  • “Sider on Existence,” (with Matti Eklund) Noûs 41.3 (2007): 519-28.

Reviews

  • Review of Matti Eklund’s Alien Structure: Language and Reality, forthcoming in Mind.
  • Review of Ryan Nefdt’s Language, Science and Structure, forthcoming in Folia Linguistica
  • Bernhard Nickel’s Between Logic and the World: An Integrated Theory of Generics,  Mind 127 (2018): 284-293.
  • Eli Hirsch’s Quantifier Variance: Essays in Metaontology, The Philosophical Review 122(2) (2013): 310-314.
  • Jeffrey C. King’s The Nature and Structure of Content, The Philosophical Review 119(2)  (2011): 246-250.

Awards and Honors

  • SSHRC Insight Grant 2020 ($88,662)
  • SSHRC Insight Grant 2017 ($80,385)
  • Non-academic placement grant 2017 ($8,000)
  • Boston University Humanities Foundation Junior Fellowship, AY 2011-2012.
  • “Simple Generics” reprinted in Philosophers Annual XXXI.

Presentations

  • Author meets critics on Property Versatility and Copredication, Eastern APA, Jan. 2026.
  • “Polysemy and Observations in Linguistics”, University of British Columbia, Sept. 2025; New York
  • Philosophy of Language Workshop, Oct. 2025.
  • Workshop in Property Versatility and Copredication, University of British Columbia, Sept. 2025.
  • “How to Drink and Bottle and then Smash It: The Property Versatility Account of Copredication”,
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison: Feb. 2025.
  • Comments on Gareth Norman, American Philosophical Association Eastern, Jan. 2025.
  • “Words and Names”, University of British Columbia: Dec. 2024
  • “Establishments and Uniformity”, Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Saskatchewan,
  • September 2024.
  • “Copredication and Category Mistakes,” Alien Structure Workshop, Uppsala University, April 2023.
  • “Thinking Outside of the Lunch Box,” University of Alberta, Novermber 2021; University of Victoria,
  • September 2022.
  • “Copredication and Semantic Scepticism,” Bilkent University, November 2020.
  • “Generics and the Metaphysics of Kinds,” Banff Conference on Language and Metaphysics, Feburary
  • 2020.
  • “Meaning Transfer Revisited,” University of Oslo, March 2019.
  • “Double Counting and the Problem of the Many”, Western Canadian Philosophical Association,
  • October 2018. USC (graduate seminar guest), November 2018.
  • “Partialhood”, University of Calgary Graduate Conference, Keynote speaker, May 2016; Boston University Colloquium, September 2017; Franklin and Marshall aspect workshop, April 2018.
  • “Meaning, Types, and Predication” SFU Workshop on the Intellect, April 2017; University of Birmingham relations and unity workshop, April 2018.
  • “Copredication and Property Inheritance” (paper co-authored with Ofra Magidor), University of British Columbia, January 2017; Society for Exact Philosophy, May 2017; Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistical Philosophy October 2017.
  • Critic in session on Bernhard Nickel’s Between Logic and the World: An Integrated Theory of Generics, Eastern APA January 2017.
  • “Neo-Fregean Category Theory”, University of Alberta, October 2016.
  • “Sodium-Free Semantics”, University of Stockholm November 2015; University of Hamburg, Nominalizations Workshop, May 2016.
  • “Criteria of Partiality and the Mass/Count Distinction”, Bogazici University, May 2015.
  • “Generics and Pronouns,” Society for Exact Philosophy, May 2015
  • “Counting as a Type of Measuring,” University of Colorado, March 2015, M.I.T. May 2015, Bogazici University, May 2015; Cal State Northridge, October 2015; Uppsala University, November 2015; Oxford University, May 2016.
  • “Counting Cards,” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, September 2014.
  • “We Do Not Count By Identity”, Oxford University, February 2014, University of Rochester, March 2014, University of Calgary, April 2014.
  • “Generalized Scrutability and the Construction of Intensions,”  University of Cologne, May 2013.
  • “Expressibility Problems and Type-Assignment,” University of Oslo, April 2013.
  • Comments on “Composition and Facts,” Paci c APA, March 2013.
  • “Three Questions About Counting,” University of Southern California, January 2013.
  • “Predication as Ascription,” Oxford University, May 2012.
  • “Necessarily, Sherlock Holmes is not a Person,” University of Manitoba, March 2012; Illinois Philosophical Association, November 2012.
  • “Verbal Disputes, Common Sense, and Quantifier Variance,” Harvard University, December 2011.
  • “Propositional Representation,” University of Texas, El Paso, Mach 2011; Syracuse University, August 2011.
  • “Relations and Order-Sensitivity,” University of Texas, El Paso, March 2011.
  • “Branching Quantification and the Nature of Scope,” Hocking-Cabot Seminar, July 2010.
  • “The Semantics of Quotation,” BU Undergraduate Philosophy Club, November 2009.
  • “Simple Generics,” Generics Workshop, University of Oslo, February 2009; Creighton Club, Hobart and William Smith, October 2009.
  • “Predication as Ascription,” Cornell University Workshop, February 2008; Leeds CMM Graduate Conference, September 2008.
  • “Mass Nouns as Kind Referring,” Plurality, Unity and Structure in Ontology and Semantics, IHPST Paris, October 2007.