He has previously served as Head of the Philosophy Programme, Deputy Head of the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, and Dean of Students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has taught courses in Critical Thinking, Irrationality, and Logical Thinking, Epistemology, the Theory of Knowledge, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Literature. He has published important work on Fiction and Metaphysics. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2002 and previously taught at Western Washington University in the United States.. He is a native of Australia, but feels most at home in New Zealand.