Jim grew up in Dundas, Ontario. He did his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Toronto. He finished his Ph.D in 2018 at the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation about Gottlob Frege advised by John MacFarlane and John Campbell.
Over the next few years, he visited the University of Indiana, Bloomington, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Toronto Mississauga.
In 2022, he came to Astana to work at Nazarbayev University. He really likes it.
His research divides into historical work about Gottlob Frege and his philosophical contemporaries, and non-historical work about values and norms connected with truth. The two parts are closely connected, because what interests him most about Frege and other figures in his historical period is their treatment of the values and norms connected with truth.
In addition to writing papers and teaching classes at NU, he is faculty advisor to the undergraduate philosophy club Vox, and he helps to keep up this website.
