I am an associate professor in the Philosophy Department at Illinois State University.

I have research interests in metaphysics, philosophy of language, the history of logic, medieval philosophy, and the philosophy of art. I have published work on the history of the Liar Paradox, time and change, essence and modality, and the ontological status of fictional characters.

Ahmed Alwishah and I have published a book on the history of the Liar Paradox, The Final Word: al-Dawānī and the Liar Paradox in the Islamic World. You can read the first 20 pages or so for free on Google Books. You can find it in a library using WorldCat. You can buy it from Oxford University Press, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.

Cover of our book, The Final Word

We also have an entry on the topic forthcoming in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Contact

341 Stevenson Hall
Department of Philosophy (4540)
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790