Hi, I'm Ray.
In the fall of 2024, I will begin at University of Oxford as a probationary research student in philosophy.
Currently, I am a PhD student in the department of philosophy at the University of Minnesota and a graduate student fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. Before coming to philosophy, I earned a masters in physics at Brown University, a masters in teaching at University of Pennsylvania, and I taught physics for five years at Milton Academy. My research interests span philosophy of physics, metaphysics, and social epistemology. At the moment, I spend most of my time thinking about:
(1) how to conceptualize the properties of ordinary objects in Everettian quantum mechanics, and
(2) just how complementarity was weaponized as a tool of epistemic violence through the early history of quantum foundations.
Outside of philosophy, I enjoy running, cycling, climbing, hanging out with my magnificent dog Ada, and generally spending time outdoors.