My work is in the philosophy of language. I am interested in foundational questions about meaning, such as "by virtue of what do our words mean what they do?" My dissertation investigates the potential for responding to such foundational questions by providing an act-based account of meaning. Alongside these foundational inquiries, I am pursuing another project in the philosophy of language focused on the nature of linguistic communication. I have argued (in Malcomson 2024 and 2025) that the meanings of one's utterances are not fixed by linguistic conventions, but this raises the question of how linguistic communication is possible. In response to this lingering concern, I am developing an account of communication which is neither conventionalist nor contextualist.
I also have strong interests in the philosophy of action, the philosophy of mind, and the history of analytic philosophy.