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 gave a keynote address at a Sex and Sexuality workshop in Vienna on June 13.
I gave a talk on skepticism and inaction, and a seminar on Epistemic Courage, at the CEU Knowledge in Crisis Project in Vienna, June 10.
On June 5 I gave a talk on consent and knowledge at the Bled Epistemology Conference.
I spoke on consent and intuition at an Edinburgh Experimental Jurisprudence workshop on June 2.
In May 2025, I participated 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.
Melissa Rees and I wrote a public philosophy piece on consent for IAI.
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”.
