I am a philosopher at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I serve as chair of the Philosophy Department. I am interested in meaning, uncertainty, agency, modality, collective attitudes, the future, explanation, chance, mathematics, decisions, rationality, artificial intelligence, and more.

I can’t write on everything in that list. I study modal language and thought to understand how we interpret, convey, and deploy information that goes beyond immediate experience. I have open projects on intention revision and creativity in artificial intelligence, temporal symmetries of inquiry, and reason-based semantics for normative language.

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📌 Recent Publications

  1. Normative Credences Are Not Classical.
    Forthcoming in Analysis

  2. Anankastic Conditionals and the Default Theory of Reasons
    Forthcoming in Linguistics & Philosophy

  3. Intention Reconsideration in Artificial Agents: A Structured Account
    Philosophical Studies, 2024

  4. Confidence Reports (with P. Santorio & A. Wellwood)
    Semantics & Pragmatics, 2024

  5. Experimenting with (Conditional) Perfection (with L. Rips) Conditionals: Logic, Semantics, Psychology
    (Kaufmann, Over & Sharma, eds.), 2023

  6. Human Foreknowledge
    Philosophical Perspectives, 2021

⭐ Selected Publications

  1. The Modal Future (book) Cambridge University Press, 2021

  2. Conditional Heresies (with S. Goldstein)
    PPR, 2020

  3. Will Done Better: Selection Semantics, Future Credence and Indeterminacy (with P. Santorio) Mind, 2018

  4. Consequence and Contrast in Deontic Semantics Journal of Philosophy, 2016

  5. Deontic Modals and Probabilities: One Theory to Rule Them All?
    In Deontic Modality (Charlow & Chrisman eds.) OUP, 2016

  6. Ought and Resolution Semantics Noûs, 2013

  7. Decision Framing in Judgment Aggregation (with M. Pauly and J. Snyder) Synthese, 2008