Publications
Evidentially Hedged Assertions and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion. Erkenntnis, Forthcoming.
Speakers perform evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to the truth of what they assert by disclosing unreliable sources of evidence. I examine linguistic data on evidentially hedged assertions and relate them to familiar norms of assertions.
Hedged Conjunctions and Norms of Assertion. Inquiry, Forthcoming.
Speakers hedge appropriately when they self-disavow knowledge and inappropriately when they self-attribute it. Does this linguistic evidence support the knowledge norm of assertion? While the answer initially seems to be 'yes', I argue that the picture is more complicated.
Epistemic Justification and the Folk Conceptual Gap. Episteme, 2024. [Link to Published Version, Open Access]
Empirical surveys of folk attributions of epistemic justification are taking center stage in experimental epistemology. First, I point out a few hitherto unappreciated limitations of these surveys. Then, I sketch a way forward.
Etiological Proper Function and the Safety Condition. Synthese, 2023. [Link to Published Version, Open Access]
Safety-theoretic accounts of knowledge face a number of pressing counterexamples. I show that etiological proper functionalism can help to address them.
Knowledge, Individualised Evidence and Luck. Philosophical Studies, 2022. [Link to Published Version, Open Access]
For a long time, philosophers of evidence law have grappled with the difficulties of defining the notion of individualised evidence. Epistemologists have recently stepped in to help and noted a connection between individualised evidence and anti-luck conditions on knowledge. I cast doubt on the significance of this connection.
The Explanationist and the Modalist. Episteme, 2022. [Link to Published Version, Open Access]
Explanationists urge us to break with tradition and abandon modal theories of knowledge. After assessing the prospects of explanationism, I conclude that we should stick with tradition.
A New Solution to the Safety Dilemma. Synthese, 2022. [Link to Published Version, Open Access]
The safety dilemma raises a difficult challenge for standard safety-theoretic accounts of knowledge. I develop a version of safety that escapes the dilemma.
Work in Progress
An article on reasonable doubt, eyewitness testimony and defeat (Revised & Resubmitted)
An article on the epistemic rationality of lay deference to science (co-authored)