Thinking

As an undergraduate, I am still very much "mid-voyage" ...

What runs through everything I think about is a persistent interest in limits – more specifically, in the epistemological pressures that arise at those limits.

Whose knowledge gets to count as knowledge, and where is that line drawn, and by whom? What can we coherently say about God once the concept is pushed to its logical edges? What do we owe to beings we cannot know, across a silence we have not yet broken? And where does language itself run out, and what, if anything, remains on the other side?

These are actually not separate questions, because there is an similar underlying pressure in them: what holds when everything is taken to its limit, and is there something substantive at the core – or only the limit itself? That is the question I keep returning to, from different angles, in different registers.

I am, in that sense, a "Grenzgänger". Arguably though not to dissolve them ... but to understand what they are made of, and whether something survives the crossing.

... that said, I have found something like a direction. What follows is my attempt to sketch that out, where I am and what I find worth thinking about a lot of sleepless nights.

Where I Work

These are the areas I have spent real time with: through seminars, talks, and written work. I know my way around the debates, even if I'm still finding my footing in some of them.

Social Epistemology

Epistemic injustice, testimonial silencing & epistemic violence (Fricker, Dotson, Medina, Pohlhaus, Spivak)
Echo chambers, epistemic bubbles & epistemic immunisation (Nguyen, Furmann)
Queer/Feminist epistemology (Sedgwick, Haraway, MacKinnon, Dworkin, Hartsock, Collins)

SETI/METI

Critique of METI: Risk, responsibility & intergenerational justice (Haramia, Smith, Wright, Vakoch, Shostak, Cirkovic, Gertz)
Epistemic authority, collective decision-making in METI & the legitimacy of speaking for humanity (Haramia, DeMarines, Traphagan, Denning, Jebari & Olsson-Yaouzis, Haqq-Misra)

Analytic Philosophy of Religion
- Compossibility and coherence of divine attributes (Tapp, Zagzebski, Wierenga, Metcalf, Rogers, Everitt)
- Proper basicality, epistemic warrant & rationality of religious belief (primarily Plantinga; Alston, Greco, Moser)
- Reference, truth & meaningfulness in religious language (Alston, Plantinga, Grim & Torre, Hick, C. Rea, D. Crisp)