CV

Areas of Specialization:

Formal Epistemology (esp. philosophy of probability and decision theory), Epistemology, Mathematical Logic (esp. set theory), Philosophy of Mathematics

Areas of Competence:

Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Logic

Employment

Associate Professor, UC Irvine, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science

Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Philosophy, August 2014-2023 (Assoc. Prof. 2014-2021; Full Prof. 2021-2023; Associate Head of Department, 2016-2017; Director of Graduate Studies, 2017-2020; Associate Director of Graduate Studies 2020-2023)

Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Philosophy, January 2009-June 2014

Academic Coordinator, Canada/USA Mathcamp, July-August 2010

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy, June-Dec 2008, July-Dec 2009

Education

PhD, UC Berkeley, Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science, May 2008

Visiting Student, ANU RSSS Philosophy, July-Aug 2005, June 2006, June 2007

BA, Philosophy and Music, Stanford University, May 2002

BS, Mathematics, Stanford University, May 2002

Study Abroad, Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Fall 2000

Publications

See Research page

Teaching

See Teaching page

Honors and Awards

• • "Referee of the Year", from the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2019)

  • Delivered first annual Patrick Suppes Lectures in Memory of Ernest Nagel, Columbia University (2017)

  • Fellow of the Kavli Frontiers of Science program (2016)

  • "Dr. Truthlove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bayesian Probabilities" selected as one of Ten Best Papers in Philosophy in 2015 by The Philosopher's Annual

  • "Decision Theory without Representation Theorems" selected as one of Ten Best Papers in Philosophy in 2014 by The Philosopher's Annual

• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation-Completion Fellowship (2007-8)

• UC Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship (declined, in order to take Mellon/ACLS) (2007-8)

• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award, UC Berkeley (2006)

• Achievement Rewards for College Scientists fellowship (2002-4)

• Fifth Place Team, William Lowell Putnam math competition (2001)

• Honorable Mention, William Lowell Putnam math competition (1998)

Editorships

• • Associate Editor for Episteme, 2013-

  • Area Editor for Ergo, 2013-

  • Associate Editor for Philosophy of Science, 2023-

  • Editorial board for Philosophy of Science, 2015-2022

  • co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2017-2020

  • Epistemology editor for Philosophy Compass, 2015-2019

Conference Organization

• • Program Committee co-chair (with Meghan Sullivan), American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 2023

  • Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 2022

  • Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 2021

  • Program Committee, Formal Epistemology Workshop, May 2020 (moved online)

  • Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, April 2020 (canceled due to COVID-19)

  • Program Committee, Formal Epistemology Workshop, June 2019

  • Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, April 2019

  • Co-Organizer, Fifth Texas Epistemology eXtravaganza, April 2019

  • Co-organizer, Fourth Texas Epistemology eXtravaganza, April 2018

  • Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 2018

  • Program Committee, AAAI/ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, February 2018

  • Session Organizer, Proofs in Mathematical Practice, Association for Symbolic Logic, March 2017

  • Co-organizer, Third Texas Epistemology eXtravaganza, April 2017

  • Program Committee, Philosophy of Science Association, November 2016

  • Co-organizer, Second Texas Epistemology eXtravaganza, April 2016

  • Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, March 2016

  • Program committee, 12th annual Formal Epistemology Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis, 2015

  • Organizer, 11th annual Formal Epistemology Workshop, USC, 2014

  • Program committee, 5th annual Formal Epistemology Festival, University of Toronto, 2013

• Program committee, Association for Symbolic Logic winter meeting, 2013

• Program committee, 4th annual Formal Epistemology Festival, University of Konstanz, 2012

• Organizer, 8th annual Formal Epistemology Workshop, USC, 2011

Other Professional Activities

• • Member, APA Central Division, Executive Committee, 2021-2024

  • Member, APA Committee on LGBT People in the Profession, 2014-2020

  • Grant reviewing

    • 2020: Swiss National Science Foundation

    • 2019: Swiss National Science Foundation

    • 2018: Israel Science Foundation

    • 2017: Agence National de Recherche, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst, Czech Science Foundation, Germany-Israel Fund, Polish Research Agency

    • 2016: Templeton Transformative Experience Project, European Research Council, Flanders

  • Tenure letters for 18 philosophy departments

• Book refereeing for Oxford University Press

• Journal referee for dozens of journals, especially Philosophy of Science, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and Erkenntnis

• University committee Texas A&M Former Students Association Distinguished Graduate Student Awards 2019

• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews

Graduate Supervision

• • Dissertation supervision:

    • Justin Dallmann (USC), 2015

    • Sean Conte (Texas A&M), 2023

  • Dissertation committees:

    • Rima Basu (USC), May 2018

    • Brian Knab (UT Austin), April 2018

    • Bill D'Alessandro (UIC), August 2017

    • Nick diBella (Stanford), June 2016

    • Justin Sharber (Rutgers), August 2014

    • Julia Staffel (USC), March 2013

    • Janet Anderson (USC linguistics), May 2012

    • Johannes Schmidt (USC), April 2012

  • MA supervision:

    • Saleh Afroogh (Texas A&M), May 2019

  • MA committees:

    • Katie Petrik (Texas A&M), March 2016