Publications
Articles
''How to Solve the Gender Inclusion Problem'' Hypatia (forthcoming).
[Official (Open Access)]
''Quotation for Dummies'' Philosophical Perspectives (forthcoming).
[Self-Archived]
''Language Agents Reduce the Risk of Existential Catastrophe'' AI & Society (forthcoming). (With Simon Goldstein.)
[Official] [Self-Archived]
''AI Wellbeing'' Asian Journal of Philosophy 4(25): 1–22 (2025). (With Simon Goldstein.)
[Official (Open Access)]
''Covert Mixed Quotation'' Semantics and Pragmatics 17(5): 1–54 (2024).
[Official (Open Access)]
''Artificial Intelligence: Arguments for Catastrophic Risk'' Philosophy Compass 19(2): e12964 (2024). (With Adam Bales and William D'Alessandro.)
[Official (Open Access)]
''Dilemmatic Gaslighting'' Philosophical Studies 180: 745–772 (2023).
[Official] [Self-Archived]
''Contextology'' Philosophical Studies 179: 3187–3209 (2022). (With Simon Goldstein.)
[Official] [Self-Archived]
''Why Horizontalism'' Philosophical Studies 177: 2881-2905 (2020).
[Official] [Self-Archived]
''Slurs Are Directives'' Philosophers' Imprint 19(48): 1-28 (2019).
[Official (Open Access)]
''Radically Insensitive Theists'' Religious Studies 55: 169-188 (2019).
[Official] [Self-Archived]
''Uniformity Motivated'' Linguistics and Philosophy 41: 665-684 (2018).
[Official] [Self-Archived]
''De Ray: On the Boundaries of the Davidsonian Semantic Programme'' Mind 126: 697-714 (2017). (With Ernie Lepore.)
[Official] [Self-Archived]
Chapters
''Do Not Diagonalize'' In The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language, pp. 211–238 (2025).
[Official] [Self-Archived]
''Pronouns and Gender'' In The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, pp. 265–292 (2024). (With Michael Glanzberg.)
[Official] [Self-Archived]
Shorter Pieces (Replies, Discussion, Etc.)
''Is Alignment Unsafe?'' Philosophy & Technology 37(110): 1-4 (2024).
[Official (Open Access)]
Edited
AI Safety Special Issue of Philosophical Studies (forthcoming.) (With Dan Hendrycks.)
[Link]
Unstructured Content. Oxford University Press (2025). (With Peter van Elswyk, Andy Egan, and Dirk Kindermann.)
[Oxford] [Amazon] [Introduction (Self-Archived)]
The Structure of Truth. Oxford University Press (2020). (With Ernie Lepore.)
[Oxford] [Amazon] [Introduction (Self-Archived)]
Reviewed in Mind by Ian Rumfitt. [Official] [Archived]
Reviewed in The Review of Metaphysics by Claudine Verheggen. [Official] [Archived]
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
AI Welfare and the Problem of Genuine Desire. Workshop on AI Consciousness and Well-Being, University of Hong Kong. [March 2025]
Comments on "Gaslighting, Knowledge Norms, and Knowing That We Know" by Gus Turyn. Eastern APA Colloquium, New York. [January 2025]
What Remains of the Singularity Hypothesis? Workshop on the Cognitive and Linguistic Capacities of LLMs, University of Hong Kong. [December 2024]
A Case for AI Consciousness: Artificial Language Agents and Global Workspace Theory. UMD College Park. [October 2024]
Metalinguistic Comparison Is Covert Mixed Quotation. Workshop in Philosophy of Language, 25th World Congress of Philosophy, Rome. [August 2024]
Metalinguistic Comparison Is Covert Mixed Quotation. Point of View in Language Workshop, Uppsala University. [June 2024]
How to Solve the Gender Inclusion Problem. Filosofidagarna 2024, University of Gothenburg. [June 2024]
AI Wellbeing. Mind and Moral Status Group, Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford, Digital. [May 2024]
A Case for AI Consciousness: Artificial Language Agents and Global Workspace Theory. Pacific APA Symposium, Portland. [March 2024]
What Remains of the Traditional AI X-Risk Argument? Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Catastrophic Risk, Australian National University. [March 2024]
A Case for AI Consciousness: Artificial Language Agents and Global Workspace Theory. Macquarie University. [March 2024]