Hi!

I'm Juan. I'm a PhD candidate at MIT's Philosophy department. I'm co-advised by Justin Khoo and Matthias Michel. Rachel Fraser and Kathryn Davidson are also on my committee.

I'm broadly interested in the relationship between language and thought. This means I work at the intersection of empirically-informed philosophy of language and philosophy of cognitive science; but I also have interests in epistemology, philosophical logic, and general philosophy of science. 

My dissertation is on questions. The goal is to figure out what role questions play in our cognitive lives, and how they relate to our capacity for linguistic thought. I also have research interests in the semantics-pragmatics distinction, the semantics and pragmatics of imperatives and desire ascriptions, and more. See more about my research here.

Before MIT I coursed an MA in Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Before that I coursed a BA in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. And before that I was born and raised near San Jose, Costa Rica.