Here are some syllabi for courses I've taught: 

Grad seminars: 

Undergrad courses: 


Here are the PhD dissertations that I've chaired at Berkeley (usually as co-chair with John MacFarlane): 

  • Ethan Jerzak. 2019. Paradox in Thought and Natural Language.

  • Rachel Rudolph. 2019. Talking about Appearances: Experience, Evaluation, and Evidence in Discourse.

  • Alex Kocurek. 2018. What Can You Say? Measuring the Expressive Power of Languages. (Logic Group.)

  • Ethan Nowak. 2016. Two Dogmas About Demonstratives.

  • Lawrence Valby. 2015. Some Case Studies in Algebra Motivated by Abstract Problems of Language. (Logic Group.)

  • Melissa Fusco. 2015. Deontic Disjunction.


Here are some other dissertations I’ve had something or other to do with:

  • Virginia Dawson. 2020. Existential Quantification in Tiwa: Disjunction and Definites. (Berkeley Linguistics.) Committee member.

  • Kenny Baclawski. 2019. Discourse Connectedness: The Syntax-Discourse Structure Interface. (Berkeley Linguistics.) Committee member.

  • Russell Ahmed-Buehler. 2019. A Logical Theory of Confirmation. (Berkeley Logic Group.) Committee member.

  • Simon Goldstein. 2017. Informative Dynamic Semantics. (Rutgers Philosophy.) Committee member.

  • Simon Charlow. 2014. On the Semantics of Exceptional Scope. (NYU Linguistics.) Committee member.

  • Justin Bledin. 2013. Logic Informed. (Berkeley Logic Group.) Committee member.

  • Brian Rabern. 2012. Monsters and Communication. (ANU Philosophy.) Outside examiner.

  • Daniel Lassiter. 2011. Measurement and Modality: The Scalar Basis of Modal Semantics. (NYU Linguistics.) Committee member.


Here are the honors undergrad theses I’ve supervised:

  • Cameron Johnson. 2022. Empty Names May Not Be So Empty, Actually.

  • Ced Zhang. 2020. A Probabilistic Restrictor Theory of Conditionals.

  • Sophia Dandelet. 2013. Desires Without Consequences.