Position Title
Assistant Professor
Gabe is a philosopher of linguistics, interested in all areas of philosophy which interact with questions about language, mind, and the scientific study thereof. He will join the UC Davis philosophy department in 2024, after a 3-year period as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Keele University. He is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics.
Research Focus:
Gabe’s research centers on the philosophical underpinnings and implications of modern linguistic theory, especially in the generative tradition. He believes that a proper understanding of both the results and the methods of this research program have significant and surprising results for traditional questions within the philosophy of language, mind, and science. Some of his recent work has investigated these questions from the perspective of branches of linguistics which have traditionally been under-discussed within philosophy, such as morphology and phonology.
- PhD Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
- BA (Hons) Philosophy, Bristol University, 2012
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2020-2023)
- UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
- Gabe is interested in teaching across the philosophical syllabus, with a focus on philosophy and/of cognitive science.
- Philosophy of Linguistics
- Correspondence and Construction. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind Vol. 3, (Uriah Kriegel ed.). 2023
- Reference and Morphology. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 2022
- Public Language, Private Language, and Subsymbolic Theories of Mind. Mind & Language. 2022
- Realism and Observation: The View from Generative Grammar. Philosophy of Science. 2022
- (What) Can Deep Learning Contribute to Theoretical Linguistics? Minds and Machines. 2021
- What Would it Mean for Natural Language to be The Language of Thought? Linguistics and Philosophy. 2020