I am Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where I co-direct the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre.
My research is mainly in epistemology, with a focus on knowledge-how, virtue epistemology, social epistemology, and the epistemology of AI. I also work in philosophy of action and philosophy of skill. I am a co-editor of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and an area editor at Ergo. I sit on the Editorial Board of the Philosophical Quarterly and the Executive Board of the British Society for Theory of Knowledge. I am an Elected Member of Academia Europaea.
I am PI on a 5-year European Research Council Advanced Grant, KNOW-HOW: A new framework for theoretical and practical control across intelligence domains (EUR 2.48M), which runs from 2025 to 2030. I am also co-PI on a 2-year UKRI grant, Navigating the Neural Frontier: Embedding Ethics and Epistemology into Neurotechnology (~£1M), running from 2026.
I have published eleven books, including most recently Knowing How and Learning How: An Epistemic Theory of Control (with T. Kearl, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), How We Govern Our Minds Through Others: Epistemic Autonomy Beyond the Myth of Independence (with N. Levy, MIT Press, forthcoming), A Telic Theory of Trust (OUP, 2024), Stratified Virtue Epistemology: A Defence (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Digital Knowledge (Routledge, 2023), and Autonomous Knowledge (OUP, 2022). I am currently completing a book on sub-personal epistemology under contract with Oxford University Press with Rob Rupert, as well as a book on epistemic sustainability with Jesper Kallestrup.
I have published over 100 papers in journals including Noûs, Mind, Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, and Australasian Journal of Philosophy. On various projects at COGITO, I've had the privilege of mentoring many fantastic postdocs, including Giada Fratantonio, Matthew Jope, Mariona Miyata-Sturm (beginning July 2026), Auke Montessori (beginning June 2026), Angela O'Sullivan, Spencer Paulson, Oscar Piedrahita, Joshua Thorpe, Matthew Vermaire, and Tim Watkin.