I studied at the University of Manchester, and with Thomas Uebel as my supervisor, I wrote my thesis on the epistemology of testimony and the social and political knowledge needed for effective citizenship. Although primarily a piece in social epistemology, I incorporated recent political science literature on civic engagement. My motivations in writing it came from the realisation that people largely depend on testimony for their knowledge of politics but that most theories of testimony deal poorly with examples of this sort of knowledge.
The two central areas of my research are epistemology and political philosophy. In epistemology, in addition to the new study of testimony, I am interested by the internalist/externalist debate and by the naturalist epistemologist incorporations of neuroscience and psychology into philosophy of knowledge. In political philosophy I am interested in international relations and questions concerning ethics in the public sphere. I'm also interested in methodological questions to do with how we may study politics at all.