I am currently an assistant professor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Philosophy.
My research is primarily in epistemology and the philosophy of science. My dissertation, Evidence, Entailment, and Defeat, addresses the following two questions: 1) When we get evidence for some hypothesis, under what circumstances do we also get evidence for the things that follow from that hypothesis? 2) How is evidence defeated, and what considerations about the design of a scientific study lead to defeat of the evidence that the study provides for its conclusion? In my dissertation, I address and unify these questions, applying my analysis to various arguments in statistics, science, and philosophy.
I also have research interests in related areas of decision theory, philosophy of mind, philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology, and history of analytic philosophy.
