BS, Vanderbilt University MA, University of Pittsburgh PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Teaching Experience
Visiting assistant professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-98
Instructor, University of Pittsburgh, 1996-97
Specialties
History of analytic philosophy
Epistemology
Philosophy of language
Modern philosophy
Twentieth-century continental philosophy
Publications
"Conceptions of Nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein," in Alice Crary and Rupert Read, eds., (The New Wittgenstein. New York: Routledge, 2000, pp. 315-349).
"Houses, Flowers, and Frameworks: Mulhall and Cavell on the Moral of Skepticism" (European Journal of Philosophy, 10:2, 2002, 196-208).
"Much Ado about the Nothing: Carnap and Heidegger on Logic and Metaphysics," in C.G. Prado, ed., A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003.
"Conventions and Forms of Life,"(Frederick Schmitt, ed., Socializing Metaphysics, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
"Logic and the Inexpressible in Frege and Heidegger," (Journal of the History of Philosophy, 40:1, 2002, 89-113). Reprinted in Stephen Mulhall, ed., Martin Heidegger (Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006).
“Wittgenstein on Criteria and the Problem of Other Minds”, in Marie McGinn and Oskari Kuusela, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 472-498.
“Wittgenstein versus Zombies: An Investigation of our Mental Concepts”, in Shyam Wuppuluri and Newton da Costa, eds., Wittgensteinian (adj.) (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020), pp. 423-438. Selected by the editors as the sample chapter for free download.
“Logic and Attunement: Reading Heidegger through Priest and Wittgenstein”, in Daniel Dahlstrom and Filippo Casati, eds., Heidegger on Logic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 159-181.
“Inner and Outer: From Skepticism to Understanding”, in Shyam Wuppuluri and A. C. Grayling, eds., Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022), pp. 295-318.
“From Deflection to Acknowledgment: Cavell on the Problem of Others”, Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies 11:2 (June 2024). ISSN: 1929-6169, pp. 70-95.
“On Not Acknowledging an Animal’s Wounds: Reading Coetzee with Mulhall”, forthcoming in Philosophical Topics, 2025.
“Albritton’s Wittgenstein”, in Ali Hossein Khani and Gary Kemp, eds., Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers (Routledge: forthcoming 2025).
Presentations
“David Hume and Sextus Empiricus on the Nature of Belief”, University of Iceland, June 2009
“Cavell on Skepticism and the Ordinary”, Le Moyne College, March 2010
“Disjunctivism versus Skepticism: The Case of McDowell versus Wright”, University of Chicago Wittgenstein Workshop, April 2010
“Wittgenstein’s Critique of Knowledge by Description”, University of Iceland Conference “In Wittgenstein’s Footsteps”, September 2012
“Brains Don’t Think”, University of St Andrews and University of Iceland, May and July 2015
“Wittgenstein on the Determinacy of Sense”, Kyoto University conference in honor of Graham Priest, December 2018
“Wittgenstein versus Zombies: An Investigation of our Mental Concepts”, vlog Arts and Humanities Colloquium, February 2019
“On Secrecy and Skepticism”, vlog Philosophy Department Works-in-Progress series, December 2020
“Communication Breakdown: Private Language and its Problems”, Lehigh University, March 2022
“The Logic of Acknowledgment”, vlog Arts and Humanities Colloquium, March 2022
“On Not Acknowledging an Animal’s Wound”, Selfridge Conference in Honor of Stephen Mulhall, Lehigh University, April 2022
“The Naturalness of Second Nature”, Conference at University of Patras (Greece) entitled ‘First and Second Nature’, June 2022
“From Deflection to Acknowledgment: An Investigation of Skepticism about Other Minds”, Faculty Work-in-Progress Series, University of Manchester, November 2023
“What Can Logic Do? Reflections from Heidegger”, vlog Arts and Humanities Colloquium, February 2024
