I am Professor of Philosophy and Michael Cohen Fellow of Exeter College at the University of Oxford. I am also Ambassador of the European Research Council to the United Kingdom.
My research is in epistemology, philosophy of language, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of gender and race, and philosophy of AI. I also do interdisciplinary research with psychology, neuroscience, computer science, social science, and medicine. I am the author of 'Knowledge and Conceptual Engineering: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Meaning Production' (Oxford University Press, 2026, with C. Kelp), Knowledge-First Epistemology: A Defence' (Cambridge University Press 2025), 'Resistance to Evidence' (Cambridge University Press 2024), 'Shifty Speech and Independent Thought;' (Oxford University Press 2021), and 'Sharing Knowledge' (Cambridge University Press, 2021, with C. Kelp), I am currently working on a new book entitled 'Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence' (for CUP, with C. Kelp).
I am the 2018 Mind Fellow and the winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize 2021.
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I am currently leading a major research project - KnowledgeLab: Knowledge-First Social Epistemology - funded by the European Research Council (2021-2027). I am also co-lead on 'Navigating the Neural Frontier: Embedding Ethics and Epistemology in Neurotech', a major, UKRI-funded interdisciplinary project (2026-2028, with colleagues in philosophy, neuroscience, and physics). Before this I was co-lead on the Leverhulme Trust-funded 'Virtue Epistemology of Trust' project (2020-2023), lead on the 'Dimensions of Wellbeing' industry-funded project (GBP 2021-2026), and I held the Mind Association Fellowship for my 'Epistemic Norms and Epistemic Functions' project. I am also Honorary Director and co-founder of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. ​
I am Associate Editor at Philosophical Studies​, Managing Editor at Ergo, and I sit on the Editorial Board of the Philosophical Quarterly. I sit on the Executive Committee of the Initiative for Science in Europe, the Executive Committee of the Aristotelian Society, the Advisory Council of the Institute of Philosophy, the Executive Board of the British Society for Theory of Knowledge, and the Steering Committee of the Social Epistemology Network. I am an Elected Member of Academia Europaea, Elected Fellow and Vice-Chair of the Young Academy of Europe, and Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland.
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I have been very lucky to mentor fantastic early career philosophers. Here are folks who were my postdocs: Claire Field, Emma C. Gordon, Matthew Jope, Lilith Mace, Timothy Kearl, Spencer Paulson, Sebastian Schmidt, and Christopher Willard-Kyle​. And here are my PhD students: Giorgia Foti, Jinxi Luo, Shemaraiah Bloomfield-Johnson, Guillaume Andrieux, Ross Patrizio, Han Edgoose, Clara Wisenfeld-Paine, Louis Austin-Eames, Paul Hampson, Yasmeen Hindawi, Paul Irikefe, Daniella Meehan, Ísak Andri Ólafsson, Maria Pia Mendez Mateluna, Martin Miragoli, Shweta Pandey, Daniela Rusu, Nina Kojima.