I teach philosophy at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna, Canada. I received by PhD from the University of British Columbia. My professional website can be found here. This is my blog to post some of my thoughts on topics that I enjoy thinking about as hobbies, when I am not too busy with academic work.

Posts about Metaphysics
1. Book Review: David Lewis, On The Plurality of Worlds
2. Facts as fictions (or, the deflationary theory of facts)
3. Some thoughts about theoretical identification
4. In defence of the contingent existence of propositions
5. Amie Thomasson’s Neo-Carnapianism
6. Propositions I: Existence
7. Propositions II: Theory Types

Posts about philosophy of mind and language
1. Guide, Commentary, and Review of Gareth Evans, The Varieties of Reference
2. Fregeanism vs The Theory of Direct Reference
3. Fregeanism and Mental Content
4. A naive view of perception
5. Seeing a goat, seeing that there is a goat, and knowing by sight that there is a goat
6. What is analyticity?
7. Meaning in Context: Contextualism about “meaning” and “saying”
8. A Quick Argument for the Originalist Theory of Concepts
9. Problem cases for interpretationism 
10. Another puzzle about belief
11. Another puzzle about belief: long version
12. Introduction to functionalism in the philosophy of mind
13. Metasemantics and Contrastivity

Posts about truth and the philosophy of logic
1. Chapter 1. The Building Blocks of Truth
2. Truth-bearers I
3. Truth-bearers II: Semantics and Metasemantics
4. Is logic a feature of propositions or sentences?
5. Is logic conventional?
6. Theories of meaning and the semantic paradoxes
7. Another note on the alleged meaninglessness of the liar’s sentence
8. What must exist for there to be laws of logic?
9. Contra disquotationalism on referential indeterminacy
10. Gappy and Glutty Theories of Falsity
11. Book Review: Michael Lynch, truth as one and many
12. It’s true that P
13. Does deflationism about truth imply deflationism about existence?
14. Against the reification of logic

Posts about Epistemology
1. Doxastic Decisions and Epistemic Externalism
2. The Neutral Audience Test
3. Deciding whether to be a contextualist about “knowledge.”
4. Does internalism about knowledge make sense?
5. On the internalism – externalism dispute: part I

Posts about metaethics
1. Naturalistic Expressivism

Posts about philosophy of religion
1. An objection to ‘The Lord of Non-Contradiction’
2. The TAG posts
3. Justification and the problem of evil
4. The Cause-to-Creator Inference of the Kalam

Miscellaneous
1. Answering the PhilPapers survey
2. What I wish I knew about teaching during the covid-19 lockdown
3. How to finish a PhD

Essays
(These are the posts that I’ve written for this blog that are basically first drafts of essays, and which I have no intention of doing further revisions.)
1. Doxastic Decisions and Epistemic Externalism
2. What is Analyticity? 
3. In defence of the contingent existence of propositions
4. Fregeanism vs The Theory of Direct Reference
5. Fregeanism and Mental Content
6. Facts as fictions (or, the deflationary theory of facts)
7. Seeing a goat, seeing that there is a goat, and knowing by sight that there is a goat
8. What must exist for there to be laws of logic?
9. Another puzzle about belief
10. Introduction to functionalism in the philosophy of mind
11. Metasemantics and Contrastivity

Videos
1. Some thoughts about theoretical identification
2. What is the correspondence theory of truth?
3. Introduction to Functionalism in the Philosophy of Mind

Knowledge in the only world we have (a writing project)
Link to the main page for this project.

1. First Philosophy and Foundationalism (DRAFT)
2. Dream Skepticism and Externalism (DRAFT)
3. Perception, appearance, and reality (DRAFT)
4. The Problem of Induction: One Problem or Many? (DRAFT)
5. Testimony and Applied Epistemology (DRAFT)

Links to published papers
1. Between Deflationism and Inflationism: A Moderate View on Truth and Reference. The Philosophical Quarterly. Oxford University Press. 2021.
2. Theorizing about truth outside of one’s own language. Philosophical Studies. 177 (4):883-903. 2020.
3. Frege’s Puzzle and the Meaning of Words. 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology (2020)

Link to doctoral dissertation
Metsemantics, moderate inflationism, and correspondence truth