Vita:
I am a philosopher. Starting in July 2008, I will be an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB, Canada). At the moment I am a Visitor at Logos - Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group (University of Barcelona, Spain). Before that, I was a Graduate Research Fellow, a Teaching Assistant and, for a while, a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield (UK). My PhD thesis was on "Consciousness, Conceivability and Concepts". The viva took place on the 4th of October 2007 (which I passed with no corrections). My examiners were Jennifer Saul (U. Sheffield) and Manuel García-Carpintero (Logos, UB). My PhD supervisors were Stephen Laurence (primary supervisor) and Rosanna Keefe (secondary supervisor); and also for a while, Dominic Gregory, who took over for one semester.
You can see my CV here.
Research:
I specialize in the areas of Philosophy of Mind and Language. I am also very interested in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Feminism. I have written several papers on consciousness and conceivability arguments, and I have plans to write more on related topics in the near future.
NEWS: My paper "Defending the Phenomenal Concept Strategy" has been accepted for publication by the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Teaching:
I have been a Teaching Fellow in my Department, where I have lectured on Consciousness and Conceptual Analysis and also on Reference and Truth, apart from tutoring in a variety of topics.
In the Fall Semester, 2007, I was a Tutor for the online first-year course 'History of Philosophy', where I supervised 4 groups on the topics: "Socrates, Plato and Aristotle", "Rationalists", "British Empiricists" and "Logical Positivism". In addition, I was tutoring for the first-year half-modules "Reason and Argument" and "Knowledge, Justification and Doubt".