About

Hi, I am Samuel Boardman. I am a postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universität Dresden at Moritz Schulz’s chair, as part of the DFG project Norms and Nature of Acceptance.

My main areas of interest are in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. My recent work explores the nature and norms of practical attitudes (e.g., acceptance, policy, and intention) and various issues in the epistemology of modality (e.g., imagination, and emotion).

My PhD dissertation argues that we use emotions—in particular, surprise—to acquire modal knowledge. I completed it in 2023 at Freie Universität Berlin, under the supervision of Barbara Vetter. Prior to that, I earned a BPhil at the University of Oxford, with a thesis supervised by Tim Williamson. Before that, I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Manchester.

Publications

Forthcoming. Core Imagination (with Tom Schoonen). Philosophers’ Imprint.

2023. Epistemologists of modality wanted (with Tom Schoonen). Synthese 202 (6):1-20.

Work In Progress

A paper about surprise and modal knowledge (under review)

A paper about the nature of acceptance (under review)

A paper about acceptance and the norm of intention (with Sophie Kikkert)