Ed received his BA (Hons) from McMaster University and his PhD from Indiana University. He held a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at the Automated Reasoning Project at The Australian National University and taught at Dalhousie University and University of Victoria before coming to Te Herenga Waka -- Victoria University of Wellington.

Ed works in non-classical logic and philosophy of logic. He also does research on formal epistemology.

Ed was the Managing Editor of the Australasian Journal of Logic from 2013-2024 and now is the production editor and was an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.