I came here from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where I studied philosophy and computer science. My main interests are in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. In the philosophy of language, I'm primarily concerned with the theory of meaning and how it can ground analyticity, and of the relations between the concepts of analyticity, apriority and necessity (e.g. the extent to which they are co-extensive). In the philosophy of mind, my main interest is consciousness, and its place in our scientific world view. For my PhD project I am working on how to ground the physicalism / dualism dispute, and in particular how, if it all, consciousness can be characterized as being, in any theoretically significant sense, distinct in kind to everything else in nature. I am largely concentrating on whether the concepts of supervenience, of apriori entailment, and of necessity, can play any useful role in this project.