I'm an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cape Town. I am also affiliated with the Department of Linguistics. I completed my PhD at the joint programme in Philosophy at the Universities of St Andrews and Stirling in the UK in 2016. There, I was a member of the Arché Research Centre for the study of Logic, Language and Epistemology. I was supervised by Ephraim Glick (formerly St Andrews) and Josh Dever (UT Austin), and my examiners were Zoltán Szabó (Yale) and Patrick Greenough (St Andrews).
My research interests lie at the intersection of the philosophy of language, science, and theoretical linguistics. I am also interested in all aspects of AI and its socio-political impact on Africa. I completed an MSc in logic and linguistics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, after a Masters in Philosophy at the University of Cape Town during which I completed philosophy courses at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I previously worked at the University of the Western Cape as a lecturer and research fellow. I have also conducted research at the Universities of Pittsburgh (2021), Minnesota (2019), Edinburgh (2018), Yale (2016), UT Austin (2015), Leeds (2013), and the University of Michigan (2010, 2009). I was recently a research fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT (2021/2022), as well as a research visitor at Pompeu Fabra University (2022) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2022). |