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I am an Associate Professor of Logic at Durham University and host of the “Doctor Logic Awkwardly Does Logic” video series on YouTube, which is based on my textbook What is Logic?.

My research in formal logic is centered on formal modeling and interactive logic. My work brings together tools and techniques from modern logic and computer science to help explore and understand practices of reasoning and argumentation in historical contexts, both in the medieval Western European tradition and in the epistemological and debate traditions in Buddhist India and Tibet. One of my interests in exploring these historical traditions is that understanding the past of logic can help us better understand not only the present, but also the future, including important issues concerning aspects of inclusion and exclusion within the discipline: Who gets excluded and who gets included when, and why, and how can we learn from this to help make the discipline more inclusive in the future?

I also maintain an interest in philosophy of language, in particular in topics relating to fiction, such as questions of meaningfulness that go beyond the standard issues of the meaning of natural languages and the unique issues of meaning that fiction, and especially fanfiction, pose. My interest in fiction is not purely academic: I also write, reviewing, and publish speculative fiction.

I am the vice-president of the British Logic Colloquium.

I am also the Editor-in-Chief and Principal Investigator of the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources.