Research
Research Summary
My primary research interest is the structure of agency. I approach this topic from multiple angles, which lead me to publish in several sub-fields in philosophy.
I have also started researching on Mengzi's philosophy because in it, I find a gold mine of insights for contemporary philosophy of action, especially his many observations about our social psychology.
Publications
"Dialectic Delicacies in Arguing for Agential Knowledge" (forthcoming) Romanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy.
"Real Quantitativeness: What Formal Investigations Can(not) Show" (2022) Book Review: J. E. Wolff (2020) The Metaphysics of Quantity. Metascience 31(1): 125-128. DOI: 10.1007/s11016-021-00725-1
"Stipulative Agency." (2021). Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility vol 7: 7-31.
"An Imaginative Person's Guide to Objective Modality." (2021). In: Christopher Badura & Amy Kind (ed). Epistemic Uses of Imagination. Routledge: 44-62.
"The Phenomenology and Metaphysics of the Open Future." (2021). Philosophical Studies. 178(12): 3895-3921.
"Being Pessimistic about the Objective Present." (2020) Synthese. 11311-11326.
"Metaphysics of Quantity and the Limit of Phenomenal Concept." (2019) Inquiry 62(3): 247-266.
"Is Imagination Too Liberal for Modal Epistemology?" (2018) Synthese 195(5): 2155–2174.
Work in Progress [*] = draft available
A paper against the existence of an agent's credence about their own current intentional actions [*]
A paper about the distinction between justification for acquiring a belief and justification for maintaining a belief about one's intentional actions [*]
A paper about a dialectic problem with attempts to defend compatibilism about free will with Frankfurt-style cases [*]
A paper about the nature and ethics of attention in Mengzi's doctrine of human nature
A paper that argues that the standard arguments against operationalism about scientific quantities are in conflict with the way we define the standard seconds