"On Bishops and Donkeys," Natural Language Semantics (2008) 16: 359-372.
In Progress
Undermining Williamson’s Modest Proposal
The Specific Yet Opaque in Situation Semantics
Telicity and Teleology
Masking Knowledge
Grants & Awards
Sanders Prize in Metaphysics, 2014
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011
Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2010
Tuition Award, Conditionals Summer School at Central European University, 2009
Travel & Tuition Award, The Ohio State University Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation,
2006
Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, 2004-2006
Research Award to attend LSA Summer Institute at MIT-Harvard, Cornell 2005
Presentations
"Determinable Dispositions," The Mereology of Potentiality. Durham University, UK.
March 2020.
"Aimless Striving," Banff Workshop in Languange and Metaphysics," Banff, CA, February
2020.
"Specificity and Structure in Dispositions," Oxford University, November 2019
"Splitting Situations," Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 11, Warsaw, Sept 2019
“Discoverability and Contestability in Social Constitution (of Gender),” with Bennett
Helm, Social Ontology 2018, August 2018
“Telic Atelics,” Workshop on Metaphysics and Semantics of Aspect, F&M, April 2018
“Partial Manifestations," APA Pacific Meeting (colloquium paper), April 2017
"Partial Manifestations," Workshop on Aspect and Modality, Western Michigan University,
April 2016
"Trivializing Williamson's Modest Proposal," International Conference on Williamson,
Philosophy and Logic, Peking University. October 2015.
"Dibble Dabbling in -ible, -able, and -ing," Workshop on the Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Dispositions. University
of Stuttgart. June 2015.
"A Situation Semantics for Split Readings," ELLMM City. Yale University. October 2014.
"On Byrne's account of perceptual evidence," Perceptual Evidence Conference. Rutgers
University, Camden, NJ. March 2014.
"Temporal Passage and Events in Progress,” APA Central Meeting (symposium paper),
February 2014
“On Shellenberg’s ‘The Particular Elements of Singular Thought',” Rationality and Reference
Conference, Franklin and Marshall College, March 2013
“On O’Rourke and Rotschy’s ‘Against Speaker Intentions’,” Eastern Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, December 2011