I am a doctoral candidate at MIT philosophy.

Before coming to MIT, I studied philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I wrote my undergraduate thesis in metaphysics under Thomas Hofweber.

Nonfactualism about Epistemic Modality (PDF)
A draft of a paper forthcoming in A. Egan and B. Weatherson (eds) Epistemic Modality, Oxford University Press.

Epistemic Modals (PDF)
Mind 2007 116: 983-1026.

Relativism and Communication: Comments on MacFarlane (PDF)
Delivered at the University of Michigan Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics, 2006.

MITWPL 51: New Work on Modality (2005)
A volume of papers on the language of modality (co-edited with Valentine Hacquard, Jon Gajewski and Bernhard Nickel).

MIT
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Some photos of far away places.

A depiction of my office.