I am a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia. I am a generalist but have worked mainly in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and adjacent areas, with particular emphasis on the history of analytic philosophy and special interest in philosophical methodology.

My first book, Necessary Intentionality (OUP 2012), brings central themes from the metaphysics of modality to bear on cognitive matters, most notably intentionality or aboutness. My second book, Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness (OUP 2017), studies the relationship between truth-conditional semantics and metasemantics (or foundational semantics) and offers an extended response to the threat of semantic indeterminacy. In the course of the second book I contemplate how to think about aboutness in relation to the scope and aims of semantic theory. This suggests a prior and more general concern with relations between theoretical representations and their represented subject matter in the study of language, thought, and elsewhere in philosophy. This is the topic of my third book, Philosophical Representation (Routledge 2023).