Research

My research is centered on the ways that evidential representations mediate communication. I am trying to find good ways to model those evidential representations by appeal to basic distinctions drawn between the kind of quality of available evidence. I am keen on looking at questions surrounding the use of epistemic modals and knowledge ascriptions. I want to make manifest the ways that language marks the presence or absence of  properties of bodies of evidence. 

I've presented this work in various stages at a number of places over the past couple of years. 

• 11/04/2022
  UT Austin - Graduate Philosophy Colloquium
  "Knowledge, assertion, and judgements of personal taste"

• 1/27/2023
  Western Michigan University - Graduate Conference in Philosophy
  "Knowledge, assertion, and judgements of personal taste"

• 3/06/2023
  UT Austin - ERGO (Epistemology Reading Group)
  "Epistemic vocabulary and evidential requirements on assertion"

• 3/13/2023
  University of Maryland - Meaning Meeting
  "The origin of evidential requirements on assertion"

• 4/27/2023
  York University - Exploring Expressivism in Ethics Language and Metaphysics conference
  "Evidence representation and evidential expressivism"

• 9/20/2024
  University of Massachussets Amherst - 3rd Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Language Association
  "Evidentially expressive adjectives"