I’m an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. I grew up in Wisconsin, went to Reed College, and got my PhD at the University of Michigan.
I work primarily in the philosophy of language, with additional interests in aesthetics, metaethics, and epistemology.
I’m interested in how language changes and varies across speakers, contexts, theories, and times, and how language users cope with and exploit that variation to suit their linguistic and non-linguistic purposes.
My papers have appeared in Philosophical Studies, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophers' Imprint, Inquiry, Legal Theory, and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, among other venues.