I am a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at King's College London. My research centers on philosophy of language, though I also occasionally dabble elsewhere in philosophy. I am particularly interested in how we use language to do things with each other—to coordinate our actions, to express ourselves, to lie to and deceive each other—and how attending to the varied things we do with language might help us to better understand the relationship between language and thought.

Before joining King's, I was a Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar at McGill University. Previous to that, I wrote my my Ph.D. at UCLA under the supervision of David Kaplan and Sam Cumming. My dissertation focused on what terms like names and pronouns mean, or refer to, in context and what can be gleaned about the relation between thought and language from seeing how such terms occasionally refer in unexpected ways.

I also sometimes try to do non-academic philosophy. For instance, I've made a series of short videos on philosophy with the actor James Franco. Those can be found here. I also I also occasionally write for my friend Joshua Katcher's blog on the ethical issues surrounding vegetarianism. My posts can be found here.