Education

• B.A., philosophy, psychology, University of British Columbia
• M.A., philosophy, Simon Fraser University
• Ph.D., logic and philosophy of science, University of California, Irvine

Biography

My research is in the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences. I am interested in both philosophically-informed-science and scientifically-informed-philosophy. Basically, my projects will try to do one of two things: 1) identify a methodological concern discussed by social scientists and see if providing a philosophical analysis can help the dialogue make progress, or 2) identify a philosophical thesis that seems to involve factual claims about the social world and ask whether the social sciences are equipped to supply them.

I can also be persuaded to undertake/supervise projects in philosophical logic, philosophy about machine learning, game and decision theory, most areas of technical philosophy, and historical topics around the Vienna Circle.

Publications:

Sample representation in the social sciences. Synthese 198, 9097–9115 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02621-3