Education

• Ph.D. Philosophy, UC Berkeley, Philosophy, 1990
• M.A. Philosophy, University of Virginia, 1985
• B.A. Philosophy, University of Virginia, 1979

Research Interests

• Metaphysics
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of Language

Select Publications

• “Lotteries, Quasi-Lotteries, and Scepticism,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (2011), 335–352.
• “Are Analytic Philosophers Shallow and Stupid?” Journal of Philosophy 105 (2008), 301–19.
• “The Egg and I: Conception, Identity, and Abortion,” The Philosophical Review 117 (2008), 323–48.
• "Fallibility and the Phenomenal Sorites," Noûs 36 (2002), 384–407.
• “A Simple Solution to the Liar,” Philosophical Studies 89 (1998), 197–212.

Courses

• Metaphysics (PHIL 301)
• Epistemology (PHIL 302)
• Philosophy of Language (PHIL 303)
• Introduction to Ethics (PHIL 201)