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.
My critical notice on Ángel Pinillos’s recent book on doubt was published in the Asian Journal of Philosophy.
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.
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”.
