ABOUT
I'm an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I work at the intersection of philosophy of language and social/political philosophy, exploring the role of language as a tool for social and political action.
RESEARCH
BOOKS
Non-Ideal Metasemantics, Routledge. 2023
Final Version (open access)
ARTICLES
"Dual Character Concept Terms: A New Case for Polysemy", Australasian Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming
"The Persuasive Power of Not-at-Issue Speech", Philosophical Quarterly. 2026
"Languages and Language Use", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 2022
Penultimate version
"The "All Lives Matter" Response: QUD-shifting as Epistemic Injustice", Synthese. 2021
Final version
*Similar ideas were developed independently by the ALPS lab and can be found here*
"The Case for Consent Pluralism", Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. 2022
Penultimate version
“On Meaning Without Use”, Journal of Philosophy. 2021
Penultimate version
“Language without Information Exchange.”, Mind and Language. 2020
Final version
“The Limits of Acceptance”, Inquiry. 2020
Final version
“Varieties of Intentionalism”, Preyer, Gerhard (ed). Semantics, Pragmatics and Interpretation. Oxford University Press. 2018
Penultimate version
“Bald-Faced Lies: How to make a move in a language game without making a move in a conversation”, Philosophical Studies. 2016
Final version
“Coordinating with Language”, Croatian Journal of Philosophy. 2016
Final version
BOOK REVIEWS
"Review of Una Stojnić and Ernie Lepore's Inflammatory Language: Its Linguistics and Philosophy", Mind. forthcoming
"Review of Jennifer Saul's Dogwhistles and Figleaves: How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood", Ethics. 2025
"Reference and confusion", Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
"Review of Richard Moran's The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity", Ethics. 2020
ARTWORK
Before pursuing philosophy full-time, I studied and taught drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art and the University of Missouri. My work has been exhibited at Grenning Gallery, Gillock Gallery, and Sader Braudis Gallery. Here are a few of my drawings and one sculpture--a pumpkin carving of Bertrand Russell, which is perhaps my greatest artistic achievement.
Self-portrait, charcoal on paper