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 won a SSHRC Connections Grant for a UBC conference on Consent and Sexual Education, May 28–29.
I spoke on epistemic anxiety and epistemic courage at at a Kierkegaard and Intellectual Virtue Workshop in Southampton on September 17.
I am editing a volume on Positive Epistemology, forthcoming with Routledge.
I have signed a contract with OUP to write a new monograph, Consent and Its Limits: A Critical Ethics of Sex.
I gave a keynote address at a Sex and Sexuality workshop in Vienna on June 13.
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.
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”.
