Welcome

I am assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, and a member of the UConn Logic Group.

I am also associate fellow at the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and associate editor of the journal Erkenntnis.

I received my Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews in 2006 for a thesis with the title ‘Second-order Logic: Ontological and Epistemological Problems’.

My research interests lie mainly in the philosophy of logic and mathematics, but I am also interested in philosophy of language, aesthetics, metaphysics, and philosophical logic.

Some topics that currently occupy my mind are inferentialism, logical consequence, truth, abstractionism (a.k.a. neo-logicism), nominalism in the philosophies of mathematics, art, and logic, ontological commitment, plurals, higher-order logic, meta-ontology, and the role of model theory in philosophy.

I am one of the translators of Gottlob Frege’s Grundgesetze der Arithmetik. Some details about this project can be found here.

Publications, presentations, work in progress
Teaching
Leisure Zone


Current teaching (Spring 2012):

• Phil 2205 – Aesthetics
• Phil 3241 – Language: Meaning and Truth