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Welcome! I'm an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). I work mostly in epistemology, with some overlap in feminist and social philosophy, as well as philosophy of language. These days most of my research is centred on inquiry.
I co-founded and help to organize The Inquiry Network. Previously, I taught for three years at Bentley University. I completed my PhD in Philosophy from Brown University, where I also obtained a Doctoral Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I have an MA from Simon Fraser University and a HBA from the University of Toronto. I grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, and I have two cats, Bean and Ghost, and two dogs, Sammy and Porcco (one of whom was named after the main character in this Hayao Miyazaki anime). I was a first-gen college student, and I recently wrote about my journey into academic philosophy for #First-GenPhilosophers. |
Publications
As Editor
- Inquiry and Higher-Order Evidence, in Inquiry: Philosophical Perspectives, (Eds.) A. Creller and J. Matheson, Routledge Press. Forthcoming.
- The Zetetic, Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd Edition, (Eds.) J. Dancy, E. Sosa, M. Steup, and K. Sylvan, Forthcoming.
- Hermeneutical Injustice, Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd Edition, (Eds.) J. Dancy, E. Sosa, M. Steup, and K. Sylvan, Forthcoming.
- Review of The Attitude of Agnosticism, By Avery Archer. Mind, Forthcoming.
- Belonging and Estrangement, AAPT Studies in Pedagogy, co-authored with Heather Stewart, (2025).
- Inquiry for the Mistaken and Confused, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, (2024).
- Should Epistemology Take the Zetetic Turn?, Philosophical Studies (2023).
- Featured on New Work in Philosophy
- Inquiring Minds Want to Improve, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2023).
- Featured Interview on Faculti
- Hermeneutical Injustice: Distortion and Conceptual Aptness, Hypatia (2022).
- Est-ce que vous compute? Code-switching, Cultural Identity, and AI, Feminist Philosophical Quarterly, Co-authored with Travis LaCroix. Special Issue: Feminism, Social Justice, and Artificial Intelligence, Edited by Carla Fehr, (2022).
- Inquiry and Confirmation, Analysis (2021).
- Slurs, Neutral Counterparts, and What You Could Have Said, Analytic Philosophy (2021).
- Fitting in is human: forcing someone to fit in is oppression, Psyche Magazine (2021).
- Spitting Out the Kool-Aid: A Review of Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2018).
- Analyzing the Wrongfulness of Lying: A Defence of Pluralism, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie (2017).
As Editor
- Special Issue: Outsiders Within: Reflections on Being a Low-Income and/or First-Generation Philosopher, APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (Spring 2021) with Heather Stewart.
Teaching
At Toronto Metropolitan University:
At Toronto Metropolitan University:
- Critical Thinking (Winter 2026)
- Inquiry (Graduate Seminar) (Winter 2026)
- Knowledge, Truth, and Belief (Fall 2025)
- Inquiry and Injustice (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
- Should life be like a game? Gamification and Human Values (Fall 2024)
- Theories of Knowledge (Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024)
- Feminist Philosophy (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2025)
- Environmental Ethics (Fall 2022)
- Feminist Philosophy (Spring 2021)
- Critical Reasoning (Summer 2019)
- Nevertheless, She Persisted: Issues in Feminist Philosophy, Pre-College (Summer 2020, 2021)
- Moral Philosophy: Trust, Lies, Deception, and Conspiracy, Pre-College (Summer 2019, 2020, 2021)
- Moral Philosophy (Summer 2019)
- Critical Reasoning (Summer 2019)
This is Porcco <3.
