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I'm currently a Research Fellow in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tartu. 

 

Prior to Tartu,  I received a PhD from the University of Michigan where I was supervised by Brian Weatherson (chair), Sarah Moss, Eric Swanson, and Ezra Keshet.  My dissertation focused on the semantics of epistemic natural language and showing the implications that this theorizing has for epistemology itself. I'm also interested in other areas of philosophy of language and epistemology, cognitive science, philosophical methodology, history of analytic philosophy (in particular Arne Næss and the Vienna Circle), and aesthetics, amongst other things. Before Michigan, I completed a B.A. (Hons.) at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Attending UTM kept me close to home as I was born and raised in the Toronto area.

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When not doing philosophy you can find me watching live music (whenever I can find some), enjoying a fine cup of coffee, or enthusiastically playing local pub trivia. 

pshirref@umich.edu

Department of Philosophy

University of Tartu

Jakobi 2, Room 319,

51005 Tartu, Estonia

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