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 gave a talk on racism and language at the 2024 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress.
My review of Hallie Liberto’s Green Light Ethics was published in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.
My paper with Melissa Rees on sexual agency was published in Philosophers’ Imprint.
Zeit published a (German-language) conversation with me on Epistemic Courage as part of its “What Are You Thinking About Now?” series.
My new book, Epistemic Courage, was published in 2024 with Oxford University Press.
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 spoke on “Sexual Consent and Moral Explanation“ at the APA Central in New Orleans in February 2024.
I gave a keynote address, “Skepticism and Epistemic Courage,” at a Skepticism in the Real World workshop at Arizona State University in January 2024.
The APA Journal has made an animated video featuring a paper Audrey Yap and I recently wrote.
I have been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for 2023–26 for a research project on Epistemic Courage, Oppression, and the Duty to Believe.
July 1, 2022, I began a three-year term as department head of UBC Philosophy.
