About

Welcome! I am the Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London. We aim to promote and facilitate high quality research in philosophy, making it available to the widest possible audience.

I am also a Visiting Research Fellow on the ‘Knowledgeable Democracy’ project in Amsterdam, and I hold a British Academy Rising Star Award for a project on 'The Role of Truth in Politics'. This allowed me to create the Political Epistemology Network. 

My work is mostly about the relationship between knowledge and practical life. Oxford University Press just published my book, What's the Point of Knowledge?

My next project is a book about the role of truth in politics, intended for wide readership and impact beyond academia.

You can learn more about my research here. 

RECENT AND UPCOMING TALKS

Truth, Understanding, and Deliberative Democracy
Birkbeck Philosophy Society. Nov 2018   
  Georgetown Workshop on Political Epistemology. Oct 2018
   MANCEPT, Manchester. Sept 2018
   European Epistemology Network. June 2018  

Why Purists Should Be Infallibilists
APA Eastern Division, New York City. Jan 2019
Joint Session of Mind and Aristotelian Society, Oxford. July 2018
The Epistemic Significance of the Non-Epistemic, Osnabrück. June 2018
Epistemology Fest, VU Amsterdam. June 2018
New Trends in Epistemology, Hamburg. Oct 2017
Bloomsbury Epistemology Group, London. Nov 2017

Skepticism and the Point of Knowledge
   APA Eastern Division, New York City. Jan 2019
   University of Vienna. Nov 2017

What's the Point of Understanding?
Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy. Nov 2018
Tübingen Understanding Conference (Keynote Address). May 2018
    APA Eastern Division, Savannah. Jan 2018
  Guest Lecture, KU Leuven. Jan 2018

Knowledge in a Post-Truth World
   MANCEPT, Manchester. Sept 2017
   DHEPCAT Conference, Delft University. Dec 2017

Thought-Experimenting on Knowledge
   APA Central Division, Chicago. Feb 2018.

Public Engagement
Post-Truth Politics in the Pub
How the Light Gets In
Podcast Series