Background image: MS page from Charles Sanders Peirce's "Issues of Pragmaticism" (source)
I’m Joshua Wilson Black, a Post Doctoral Fellow at the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour | Te Kahui Roro Reo at the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. My research interests span philosophy, linguistics, data science, and digital humanities. In all these fields, I seek insight into sign use, understood broadly, and how it fits in to our picture of the wider world.
My current primary research interest is in sociophonetics, where I investigate the dynamics of vowel spaces over time and within conversations and the early onset of vernacular reorganisation using large-scale corpus analysis.
Master of Applied Data Science, 2021
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
PhD in Philosophy, 2017
University of Sheffield
MA in Philosophy, 2013
University of Waikato | Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato
BSc(Hons) in Mathematics and Philosophy, 2012
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
BA in Philosophy and BSc in Mathematics, 2011
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
Research on the Marsden funded projects:
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Teaching across a wide range of philosophy modules. Course design and lecturing for: