About

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford University. My main areas of research interest are logic, metaphysics, foundations of mathematics, and I have subsidiary interests in a range of topics including philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of physics.

The focal project of my All Souls fellowship, ‘modal logicism’, explores the idea that modal logic can be used resuscitate the core ideas of Fregean/Russellian logicism: that is, that the theorems of mathematics can be derived in the “pure” logic of quantification theory. Outside of that main project I am working on various other topics, including on the relation between contingentism about existence and possible worlds semantics, on the merits of Kit Fine’s “procedural postulationist” foundation for mathematics, and on the application of contextualist tools to the paradoxes of set theory.