Associate Professor
About
Eric is an associate professor of philosophy and linguistics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He started teaching at Michigan in 2006, after receiving his PhD from MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
His published work is mostly on the interfaces between language and epistemology (epistemic modals and conditionals), language and metaphysics (causal talk and the logic of causation), language and ethics (deontic modals), and on two frameworks for linguistic theorizing that bear on the above—‘constraint semantics’ and ‘ordering supervaluationism.’
Most of his work in progress is in social and political philosophy of language or metaethics. He is especially interested in the relationships between language use and ideologies, ideals, and the evolution of context.
Field(s) of Study
- Language, Metaphysics, Mind, Formal Epistemology
