He has published extensively in the areas of philosophy of language, formal semantics, and logic. His doctoral thesis comprised a series of papers on the meaning and conversational function of definite descriptions.
Research Experience
Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University. Previously, he was a Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Education
He completed his PhD in Philosophy under the supervision of Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever, and Jonathan Schaffer at the Arché Research Centre, University of St Andrews. During his PhD and MA, he was a visiting student at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His dissertation consisted of a series of papers on the meaning and conversational function of definite descriptions.
Background
His research interests lie in the philosophy of language, formal semantics, and logic. In recent years, he has turned his attention to the intersection of AI and the philosophy of language, and game theory, with a particular interest in how AI can be used to construct theories that provide robustness to small deviations from Nash.