Research

Books and Edited Volumes:

  1. (with Romina Birman, Eds.). Saul Kripke on Modal Logic. 2024. Springer, Cham. [Link]

Articles, Comments, and Reviews:

  1. “A relevant framework for barriers to entailment.” IFCoLog Journal of Logics and Their Applications (Proceedings of the 2nd Third Workshop), forthcoming. [Link]
  2. (with Romina Birman). “Saul Kripke: A portrait of the modal logician as a young man.” 2024. In Yale Weiss and Romina Birman (Eds.), Saul Kripke on Modal Logic, Springer, Cham, 7-21. [Link]
  3. “New(ish) foundations for theories of entailment.” 2024. In Yale Weiss and Romina Birman (Eds.), Saul Kripke on Modal Logic, Springer, Cham, 389-408. [Link]
  4. “Augustine and the KK principle.” 2024. History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis, 27(1), 79-92. [Link]
  5. “The relevance logic of Boolean groups.” 2023. Logic Journal of the IGPL, 31(1), 96-114. [Link]
  6. “Did Aristotle endorse Aristotle’s thesis? A case study in Aristotle’s metalogic.” 2022. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 63(4), 551-579. [Link]
  7. “Semantics for pure theories of connexive implication.” 2022. Review of Symbolic Logic, 15(3), 591-606. [Link]
  8. “Revisiting constructive mingle: Algebraic and operational semantics.” 2022. In Katalin Bimbó (Ed.), Relevance Logics and other Tools for Reasoning. Essays in Honor of J. Michael Dunn, College Publications, London, 435-455. [Link]
  9. “A characteristic frame for positive intuitionistic and relevance logic.” 2021. Studia Logica, 109(4), 687-699. [Link]
  10. “A reinterpretation of the semilattice semantics with applications.” 2021. Logica Universalis, 15(2), 171-191. [Link]
  11. “A conservative negation extension of positive semilattice logic without the finite model property.” 2021. Studia Logica, 109(1), 125-136. [Link]
  12. “Cut and gamma I: Propositional and constant domain R.” 2020. Review of Symbolic Logic, 13(4), 887-909. [Link]
  13. “A note on the relevance of semilattice relevance logic.” 2019. Australasian Journal of Logic, 16(6), 177-185. [Link]
  14. “Sextus Empiricus’ fourth conditional and containment logic.” 2019. History and Philosophy of Logic, 40(4), 307-322. [Link]
  15. “Connexive extensions of regular conditional logic.” 2019. Logic and Logical Philosophy, 28(3), 611-627. [Link]
  16. “Basic intuitionistic conditional logic.” 2019. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 48(3), 447-469. [Link]
  17. “Are contradictions believable?” 2019. Thought, 8(1), 42-49. [Link]
  18. “Commentary on Cherubin.” 2018. Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 33(1), 22-26. [Link]
  19. “Semantics for counterpossibles.” 2017. Australasian Journal of Logic, 14(4), 383-407. [Link]
  20. “Review: Hugh H. Benson. Clitophon’s Challenge: Dialectic in Plato’s Meno, Phaedo, and Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 328 pages; $65.00/hardcover.” 2016. The Philosophical Forum, 47(1), 25-29. [Link]
  21. (with John Sisko). “A fourth alternative in interpreting Parmenides.” 2015. Phronesis, 60(1), 40-59. [Link]

Talks:

  1. “Constructivism: Views from relevance logic” (invited lecture). December 6, 2024. DIP Colloquium, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
  2. “Shallow syntactic properties, deep semantic correlates, and variable sharing” (invited lecture). November 16, 2024. Variable Sharing Properties and Their Discontents, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy.
  3. “A relevant framework for barriers to entailment” (invited lecture). September 27, 2024. Logic Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
  4. “A relevant framework for barriers to entailment” (invited lecture). May 13, 2024. The Second Third Workshop, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
  5. “A relevant framework for barriers to entailment.” April 13, 2024. Impromptu CUNY Logic Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
  6. “Maximal deontic logic.” November 10, 2023. Department of Philosophy Lectures, Central European University, Vienna.
  7. “Maximal deontic logic.” October 16, 2023. Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
  8. “Constructivism: Views from relevance logic” (invited lecture). May 26, 2023. PLEXUS Inaugural Conference, University of Lisbon, Lisbon.
  9. “Did Aristotle endorse Aristotle’s thesis?” May 22, 2023. Colloquium on Logic and Epistemology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum.
  10. “Augustine and the KK principle.” April 21, 2023. Philosophy and the Pandemic Generation, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
  11. “Relevance and construction: Variations on a truthmaker theme.” November 10, 2022. Kit Fine’s Introduction to Truthmaker Semantics Seminar, NYU, New York.
  12. “Anaxagoras, color change, and the Sorites paradox.” October 28, 2022. Ancient Philosophy Work in Progress Group, NYU, New York.
  13. “Did Aristotle endorse Aristotle’s thesis?” October 17, 2022. Marko Malink’s Ancient Logic Seminar, NYU, New York.
  14. “The best of all possible Leibnizian completeness theorems.” October 3, 2022. Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
  15. “Logic in the integers” (POM SIGMAA keynote). August 5, 2022. MAA MathFest, Philadelphia.
  16. “Bisemilattice semantics for intuitionistic and relevant modal logics.” October 4, 2021. Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, remote.
  17. “A reinterpretation of the semilattice semantics with applications.” August 11, 2021. Logica Universalis Webinar, remote.
  18. “We will use their own tools against them: The relevance logic of Boolean groups.” June 23, 2021. Australasian Association for Logic Annual Conference 2021, Universities of Queensland and Melbourne, remote.
  19. “Pure theories of connexive implication” (keynote). December 3, 2020. 6th Workshop on Connexive Logics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, remote.
  20. “Arithmetical semantics for non-classical logic.” September 21, 2020. Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, remote.
  21. “Was Aristotle a connexivist?” December 13, 2019. Ancient Philosophy Work in Progress Group, NYU, New York.
  22. “Are there false counterpossibles?” April 8, 2019. New York Philosophy of Language Workshop, NYU, New York.
  23. “Time, tense, and eternity in Augustine’s Confessions XI.” March 28, 2019. CUNY-Milan Workshop on Tense, University of Milan, Milan.
  24. “Tableaux for Lewis’s V-family.” October 15, 2018. Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
  25. “Sextus Empiricus’ fourth conditional and containment logic.” March 8, 2018. Saul Kripke Center Young Scholars Series, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
  26. “Inconsistent beliefs and doxastic logic.” February 16, 2018. CUNY-Milan Workshop on Belief, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
  27. “Semantics for counterpossibles.” April 3, 2017. Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
  28. “Comments on Cherubin.” October 13, 2016. Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, St. Anselm College, Manchester.
  29. (with John Sisko). “A fourth alternative in interpreting Parmenides.” October 13, 2013. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, New York.

Works in Preparation:

  1. (with Mircea Dumitru). Saul Kripke’s Legacy in Philosophical Logic, in contract with Cambridge University Press.
  2. (with Daniel West). “The disjunction property for operational relevance logics.” Under review.
  3. “The best of all possible Leibnizian completeness theorems.” Under review.
  4. “Anaxagoras and the early development of the Sorites paradox.” Under review.