Photo: Carrie Jenkins
Some Recent publications:
Sexual Agency and Sexual Wrongs: A Dilemma for Consent Theory (with Melissa Rees)
Normative Inference Tickets (with Jen Foster)
Defensiveness and Identity (with Audrey Yap)
You Ought To Have Known: Positive Epistemic Norms in a Knowledge-First Framework
Not What I Agreed To: Content and Consent (with Emily Tilton)
I’m a Professor of Philosophy and Department Head at the University of British Columbia.
News and events:
I will be on sabbatical during the 2025–26 academic year, to catch up on my research after serving for three years as Department Head.
I will give a keynote address at a Sex and Sexuality workshop in Vienna, June 12–13.
I will speak on epistemology and consent at the 2025 Bled Epistemology Conference.
I’ll speak on consent and intuition at an Edinburgh Experimental Jurisprudence workshop on June 2.
May 28–30, I’ll participate in a symposium on Epistemic Courage and a workshop on the Ethics of Doubt in Leuven.
I was awarded a 2024 UBC Killam Research Prize.
My new paper, “Consent Theory as Hermeneutical Injustice,” is now forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly.
Melissa Rees and I wrote a public philosophy piece on consent for IAI.
I am editing a volume on Positive Epistemology, which is now under contract with Routledge. More details coming soon!
Zeit published a (German-language) conversation with me on Epistemic Courage as part of its “What Are You Thinking About Now?” series.
I am part of an interdisiplinary team that won an Insight Development Grant on “Relationship Equity and Intersectional Measurement Among Gender-inclusive Young women, men, and Non-binary youth in British Columbia”.
I have been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for 2023–26 for a research project on Epistemic Courage, Oppression, and the Duty to Believe.
