About

Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.

I am also a Visiting Research Fellow on the ‘Knowledgeable Democracy’ project in Amsterdam, as well as an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in London. 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 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

Are Epistemic Spillovers an Epistemic Injustice?
Bled Epistemology Conference. June 2019

Empathetic Understanding and Deliberative Democracy
Society for Applied Philosophy. Cardiff. June 2019
Humane Understanding Workshop, Fordham University. Mar 2019
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

Skepticism and the Point of Knowledge
King’s College London. March 2019   
   APA Eastern Division, New York City. Jan 2019

What's the Point of Understanding?
Glasgow Workshop on Functionalism in Epistemology. May 2019
University of Nottingham. February 2019
   Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy. Nov 2018
Tübingen Understanding Conference (Keynote Address). May 2018

Knowledge in a Post-Truth World
UCL Philosophy Society. May 2019
The Politics of Post-Truth. Cumberland Lodge. Oct 2018   

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