AOS: Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Social Science; Philosophy of Statistics
AOC: Epistemology; Logic; Game and Decision Theory
Publications
Sample representation in the social sciences, Synthese (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02621-3
Recent academic activities
Sample representation in the social sciences (May 17, 2019) At the Greater Cascadia History and Philosophy of Science workshop.
A statistical learning approach to a problem of induction (November 3, 2018) At the 26th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. (Abstract)
Probabilism and Intuitionistic Logic (June 23, 2018) The University of Western Ontario’s 18th annual Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference.
Co-organizer, Workshop on the philosophy of machine learning (March 17-18, 2018; workshop website)
Recent service activities
I was elected chair of the LPS Climate Steering Committee for the 2020-21 year.
I initiated and co-found Wonder Philosophy, an information workshop for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who want to apply for philosophy graduate programs. I was directly involved in the 2019 and 2021 Irvine iterations of the workshop.
I designed, administered, and analyzed a climate survey for my academic department in 2019. The survey, along with some thoughts about its design, can be found here.
I was awarded the LPS 2019/20 Award for Contributions to Inclusion and Diversity.
I served as the grad student representative for LPS during the 2017-18 academic year.
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
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