I am Professor of Philosophy and Michael Cohen Fellow in Philosophy at Exeter College. 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, philosophy of AI, and philosophy of information. I also do interdisciplinary research, mainly with psychology, neuroscience, computer science, social science, and medicine.
I am the author of several books, including ‘Knowledge and Conceptual Engineering: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Meaning Production‘ (Oxford University Press, 2026, with C. Kelp). ‘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), as well as of the Cambridge Element ‘Knowledge-First Epistemology: A Defence‘ (CUP 2025). I am currently working on a new Cambridge Element entitled ‘Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence‘ for CUP.
I am the 2018 Mind Fellow and the winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize 2021.
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-Investigator on ‘Navigating the Neural Frontier: Embedding Ethics and Epistemology in Neurotech’, a major, UKRI-funded interdisciplinary project (with colleagues in philosophy, neuroscience, and physics). Before this I was Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust-funded ‘Virtue Epistemology of Trust‘ project (2020-2023), Principal Investigator 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 Associate Editor at Philosophical Studies, Managing Editor at Ergo, and I sit on the Editorial Board of the Philosophical Quarterly. I am also Honorary Director and co-founder of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. 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 Management Committee 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.
