About

I’m a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Before that I was an Associate Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York. Before that I held a teaching post in the University of Nottingham’s Foundation Arts programme (more info here).

I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham in May 2021. My doctoral research was funded by a Mind Association studentship, and before that by the AHRC, via the Midlands3Cities DTP.

My research primarily concerns metaphysical, semantic, and sometimes logical questions relating to the nature of ordinary objects and composition. In a 2023 paper in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, I defend a view that I call ‘manyism’, according to which composite objects are mere pluralities of mereological simples. I’m currently thinking and writing about the relationship between this view and versions of physicalism. I’m also interested in a related view to manyism, mereological nihilism, according to which the only individual material things that exist are simples (contrary to appearances, I don’t think that nihilism and manyism are the same view, and I argued in my OSM paper that metaontological considerations help us to see the difference). I’m interested both in whether nihilism can be conjoined with a plausible and well-motivated semantics that renders the view compatible with ordinary truths about the existence and nature of composite objects (in my doctoral work I answered this question with a ‘yes’), and more generally in what nihilists should say about a variety of metaphysical issues.

A further strand of my research concerns the role of parsimony in theory choice. Among other things, I’ve argued that ontological parsimony ought to be measured in line with Ockham’s Razor rather than Jonathan Schaffer’s Laser.