BIO

I am the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, I was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. I have also been a Professor at the University of Michigan (2000-4) and Cornell University (1995-2000). My PhD was earned in 1995 at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT (Robert Stalnaker, chair), and I received my BA from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990.

My newest book is The Politics of Language, co-authored with David Beaver, with Princeton University Press in 2023. My previous book was a trade book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Penguin Random House, 2018). My next book is Erasing History, with One Signal Publishers, which will be published in September, 2024.

I have five previously published books. My first book was Knowledge and Practical Interests published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. It was the winner of the 2007 American Philosophical Association book prize. My second book, Language in Context, also OUP, was published in 2007. This is a collection of my papers in semantics published between 2000 and 2007 on the topic of linguistic communication and context. My third book, Know How, was published in 2011, also with OUP. My fourth book, How Propaganda Works, was published by Princeton University Press in May, 2015. It was the winner of the 2016 PROSE award for the subject area of philosophy. My fifth book was a trade book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Penguin Random House, 2018).