Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2000
Appointed at UMass: 2000

Areas of interest:

History of Early Analytic Philosophy, Logical Analysis, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Ethics

Current research:

My primary project at present involves the reconstruction of the intensional logic of the early theories of meaning of Frege and Russell. I am also working on side-projects involving informal logic, metaphysics, ethics, and Wittgenstein.

Selected publications:

Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference. New York: Routledge, 2002.

"Russell's Anticipation of the Lambda Calculus," History and Philosophy of Logic 24 (2003): 15-37.

"The Number of Senses," Erkenntnis 58 (May 2003): 302-323.

"Russell on 'Disambiguating With the Grain'," Russell n.s. 21 (Winter 2001- 02): 101-27.

"When is Genetic Reasoning not Fallacious?" Argumentation 16 (2002): 383-400.

"Russell's Paradox in Appendix B of the Principles of Mathematics: Was Frege's Response Adequate?" History and Philosophy of Logic 22 (2001): 13-28.