Hi there!
I’m an interdisciplinary researcher, currently doing a PhD at Stanford University and supported by a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship. My work spans several areas—including philosophy, psychology, cognitive science and statistics. I'm advised by philosopher Ray Briggs and cognitive psychologist Jay McClelland (and they're both fantastic!). Prior to Stanford, I worked on a research program to improve reasoning in intelligence agencies, and I completed a Masters degree in both the philosophy and statistics departments at the University of Auckland.
I’d like to consider myself both a philosopher and a scientist—well, at least to the extent that psychology and cognitive science are sciences. As such, I spend half my time writing proofs, lost in thought and wondering about what it all means. I then spend the other half of my time running experiments, analyzing data and wondering about what that all means.
Some of the main topics I work on include: probabilistic reasoning, heuristics and biases, philosophy of science, reproducibility, moral motivation, meta-ethics and the philosophy of language. And some of the highlights of my work include a new solution to the moral twin earth problem and a Bayesian account of some theoretical virtues in the philosophy of science.
I also pursue research in the field of education and I coordinate a group of researchers called The Metachangemakers Project.
If you’re interested, hopefully you’ll be able to read about all this in some publications soon!
Thank you for visiting!
(And if you like the photography, see my friend Christian Naenny's website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/open_solaris/.)
I’m an interdisciplinary researcher, currently doing a PhD at Stanford University and supported by a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship. My work spans several areas—including philosophy, psychology, cognitive science and statistics. I'm advised by philosopher Ray Briggs and cognitive psychologist Jay McClelland (and they're both fantastic!). Prior to Stanford, I worked on a research program to improve reasoning in intelligence agencies, and I completed a Masters degree in both the philosophy and statistics departments at the University of Auckland.
I’d like to consider myself both a philosopher and a scientist—well, at least to the extent that psychology and cognitive science are sciences. As such, I spend half my time writing proofs, lost in thought and wondering about what it all means. I then spend the other half of my time running experiments, analyzing data and wondering about what that all means.
Some of the main topics I work on include: probabilistic reasoning, heuristics and biases, philosophy of science, reproducibility, moral motivation, meta-ethics and the philosophy of language. And some of the highlights of my work include a new solution to the moral twin earth problem and a Bayesian account of some theoretical virtues in the philosophy of science.
I also pursue research in the field of education and I coordinate a group of researchers called The Metachangemakers Project.
If you’re interested, hopefully you’ll be able to read about all this in some publications soon!
Thank you for visiting!
(And if you like the photography, see my friend Christian Naenny's website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/open_solaris/.)
