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:
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 presented “How Racist is Racist?” in Vancouver in October 2023 at the WCPA meeting.
“Normative Inference Tickets,” by Jen Foster and myself, was recently published in Episteme.
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.
