AOS: Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Social Science; Philosophy of Statistics
AOC: Epistemology; Logic; Game and Decision Theory
Publications
What Are Statistical Assumptions About? An Answer From Perspectivism, Harvard Data Science Review (2025). https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/qasl4fza/ (open access)
Measuring the non-existent: validity before measurement, Philosophy of Science (2023). https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.3 (open access)
Sample representation in the social sciences, Synthese (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02621-3 (Read a pre-copyedited version here)
Recent & future academic activities
I will be at the Pacific APA (April 2026, online) to give a talk on measuring resilience.
I will be at the Central APA (Feb 2026) to give a talk on data quality.
I gave a colloquium talk at Arizona State University this September on data quality.
I was on a panel at the 2025 Groningen meeting of the EPSA, presenting on interpretability of statistical models.
Recent service activities
I became a co-director of Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis in 2025.
I am serving as co-chair for the PSA DEI Caucus from 2023-2026
Education
Ph.D.: Philosophy (LPS) | UC-Irvine | 2021
MA: Philosophy | Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada | 2015
BA: Psychology, Philosophy | University of British Columbia, BC, Canada | 2013
Kino Zhao 