I'm a fifth-year graduate student in the Linguistics and Philosophy department at MIT. Before coming here, I was a math major at Harvard, and a BPhil student at Oxford. I expect to receive my Ph.D. in June 2009. In the fall of 2009, I will begin as an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Michigan. Research interests I work mainly in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and formal epistemology. My dissertation is on the dynamics of probabilistic knowledge and belief. It discusses conditions under which complex properties of an agent's credence distribution can amount to knowledge, formal models for compromise between agents with different credence distributions, and procedures for updating credence distributions over de se propositions. I am also currently working on the pragmatics of counterfactuals, the semantics of hyperintensional contexts, and the stage theory of persistence. For more information, please see my curriculum vitae here. Recent papers and presentations Rational Updating and De Se Belief               APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2009 Problems for the Stage Theory and Related Theories of Persistence               CMM Graduate Conference, September 2008 On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals               Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2008               First Formal Epistemology Festival: Conditionals and Ranking Functions, July 2008               University of California, Berkeley, May 2008               University of Michigan, April 2008               NYU Philosophy Department Colloquium, October 2007               Massachusetts Bay Philosophy Alliance, October 2007 Scoring Rules and Epistemic Compromise               Formal Epistemology Workshop, May 2008               MITing of the Minds Philosophy Conference, January 2008 Desire Cancellation as Presupposition Failure: Comments on "Desires" by Ben Bradley and Kris McDaniel               Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2007 Reverse Sobel Sequences and the Semantics of Counterfactuals               Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Philosophy Conference, March 2007 'That'-Clauses in Specificational Copular Sentences: Comments on "Reasons and That-Clauses" by Jim Pryor               SOFIA XVII Conference, January 2007