David received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been teaching at East Tennessee State University since 2006. His dissertation concerns issues arising in general philosophy of science, including debates surrounding the nature of confirmation and scientific progress, as well as aspects of the scientific realism question. David has published papers on the apparent asymmetry between successfully predicting data and successfully accommodating data. He is actively engaged with further papers on theory confirmation and the possibility of defending convergent scientific realism through historical reconstructions.

David's also interested in various topics within the philosophy of biology, contemporary metaphysics and epistemology.

Aside from his philosophical interests, David is an ardent fan of the luckless Leeds United and a passionate follower of the equally luckless Chicago Cubs. David enjoys drinking red wine and listening to jazz; someday he will take the time to find more about both. He likes travelling, eating his nephews and nieces, and deleting commas from sentences in ways that completely change their meaning.