Struggling to Philosophize

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About Me

I am a PhD student in the philosophy department at the University of Sheffield.  (Funded by a University Studentship and the Philosophy Department.) My interests center around epistemology.  In particular, I am interested in the epistemology of memory and its relation to the internalism/externalism debate. My PhD focuses on a series of problems involving memory that the internalist faces (such problems have been forcefully raised by Goldman among others).  I argue that internalism can answer these problems, and indeed makes the best epistemology of memory.  I am also interested in pragmatic encroachment and in the consequences of denying closure, and just about any area of epistemology.  I am supervised by David Owens and Chris Hookway.   I also have a serious interest in the philosophy of mathematics and set theory, as well as interests in the philosophies of mind, psychology, in particular the consequences of anti-individualism for epistemology.  Before coming to Sheffield I did an MPhil at King's College London.  In the spring of 2009 I was a visiting Research Associate at UC Irvine working with Sven Bernecker


When not in the UK, I can be found in Berlin, wo ich und meine Frau die Stadt rocken.  I also tried to learn German, aber ich kann Kant oder Frege nicht auf Deutsch lesen.  Anyway, you should come and visit it at least once.