I am an analytic philosopher teaching at University College London. I am also the current editor of the Aristotelian Society. I received my PhD from Princeton in 1995. I have taught at University of California Riverside, Princeton, UCLA, and Caltech. According to the present deformation professionnelle my work is in M&E (metaphysics and epistemology). My current research concerns color, consciousness, and metaethics.

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Moral Fictionalism

Published by Oxford University Press. Part of the Lines of Thought series published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Aristotelian Society. I argue for a noncognitivist interpretation of moral practice, though one not committed to a controversial and problematic nonrepresentational semantics. Moral fictionalism is noncognitivism without nonfactualism. Unlike many noncognitivists, noncognitivism is urged on epistemological rather than motivational grounds. Morever, the present account is offered as an interpretation of moral practice rather than a revision of moral practice. In the final chapter, I consider whether a cogntivist revision of out moral practice might be required. Besides rethinking the standard taxonomy of alternatives to moral realism, highlights include an epistemology of disagreement, a general diagnosis of the persistent failures of nonfactualist semantics, and a novel theory of affects.

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Fictionalism in Metaphysics

Published by Oxford University Press. Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. Since 1980, fictionalist accounts of science, mathematics, morality, and other domains of inquiry have been developed. In metaphysics fictionalism is now widely regarded as an option worthy of serious consideration. This volume represents a major benchmark in the debate: it brings together an impressive international team of contributors, whose essays (all but one of them appearing here for the first time) represent the state of the art in various areas of metaphysical controversy, relating to language, mathematics, modality, truth, belief, ontology, and morality. The first anthology dedicated to this important topic. Contributors include: Gideon Rosen, Kendall Walton, Stephen Yablo, Seahwa Kim, James A. Woodbridge, Frederick Kroon, Daniel Nolan, Cian Dorr, Richard Joyce, David Lewis, and Simon Blackburn.

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