CV

Employment

University of Oxford

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie/UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow (2023–2025)

• Research Fellow, Wolfson College (2023–2025)

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich

• External Member (2023–)

• Postdoctoral Fellow (2020—2023)

Center for AI Safety, San Francisco, California

• Philosophy Fellow (January—August 2023)

Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

• Lecturer (Spring & Fall 2021), Curriculum Designer (2022)

University of Illinois at Chicago

• Lecturer, Department of Philosophy (2018—2020)

Instructor, School of Public Health (2018—2019)

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago

• PhD, Philosophy (2017)

• MS, Mathematics (2019)

Canisius College, Buffalo, New York

• BA (Honors), magna cum laude, Philosophy (2006)

Areas of Specialization

Philosophy of science and mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of AI

Areas of Competence

Ethics, aesthetics, logic

Publications

See Research page.

Talks

"Deontology, the Paralysis Argument and Altruistic Longtermism"

• 11th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research (December 2022)

“Mathematical Explanation and Understanding: A Noeticist Account”

• Philosophy of Science Association (Pittsburgh, November 2022)

• Understanding Progress and Progress in Understanding conference (Univ. of Iceland, June 2022)

• Czech Academy of Sciences (invited talk, May 2022)

“Believing the Riemann Hypothesis: Inductive Justification Beyond Enumeration”

• Eastern APA (online, January 2022)—part of a Philosophy of Mathematics Association group session on non-deductive methods, with Silvia De Toffoli and Alan Baker

"Analogies and Modeling in Pure Mathematics"

• Mathematics and Analogical Reasoning conference (LMU, August 2021)

“Counterfactuals and Mathematical Explanation: A Litany of Woes”

• University of Vienna (invited talk, May 2021)

• University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia (invited talk, April 2021)

“Unrealistic Models in Mathematics”

• Scientific Understanding and Representation conference (SURe 4, Fordham, April 2022)

• Ghent University (invited talk, September 2021)

• Science & More talk series (University of Turin, November 2020)

“Bokulich on Fictions, Models and Explanation”

• Accepted to Pacific APA (San Francisco, April 2020); conference cancelled

“Proving Quadratic Reciprocity: Explanation, Transparency, Depth and Disagreement”

• Texas A&M University (invited talk, December 2019)

• Midwest Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop (Notre Dame, November 2019)

“Viewing-as Explanations and Ontic Dependence”

• Eastern APA, presented in a two-hour symposium session (New York, January 2019)

• Philosophy of Science Association (Seattle, November 2018)

“Is It Bad to Prefer Attractive Partners?”

• Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (Boulder, August 2018)

"Grounding, Dependence and Mathematical Explanation”

• Eastern APA (Baltimore, January 2017)—recipient of the 2016 Sanders Graduate Student Award

"Mathematical Objects as Abstract Artifacts”

• Society for Exact Philosophy (Miami, May 2016)

"Intertheoretic Reduction and Explanation in Mathematics”

• Mathematical Aims Beyond Justification Workshop, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Brussels, December 2015)

“Explicitism about Truth in Fiction”

• American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting (San Diego, 2013)—graduate student travel award recipient

“Formalisms and Interpretations: The Case of Quantum Logic”

• University of Western Ontario Philosophy of Physics, Mathematics and Logic Graduate Conference (London, ON, 2011)

 Honors, Awards and Activities

• Co-organizer of the 2022 Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students (LMU)

• Recipient of an Open Philanthropy Course Development Grant for Longtermism: Ethics and the Future (LMU, Summer 2022)

• Recipient of an EA Funds Long-Term Future Grant for longtermism-related speakers and events at LMU in summer 2022

• British Journal for Philosophy of Science Editor's Choice selection, for "Mathematical Explanation Beyond Explanatory Proof"

• Recipient of the APA’s 2019 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize for “Viewing-as Explanations and Ontic Dependence” (awarded to the two best papers published by philosophers in limited-term jobs)

• Participant in the Midwest Summer School in Philosophy of Physics, University of Chicago, 2018

• Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring Award, honorable mention, UIC, 2017

• 2016 Sanders Graduate Student Award for “Grounding, Dependence and Mathematical Explanation”—a $1000 prize given to “each of the three best papers in mind, metaphysics, epistemology or ethics submitted for the annual APA Eastern Division meeting by graduate students”

• Institute for the Humanities Graduate Resident Fellowship, UIC, 2016-2017

• Dean’s Scholar dissertation fellowship, UIC, 2015-2016—the largest and most competitive fellowship awarded to UIC graduate students

• Chosen as UIC’s sole nominee for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award

• Graduate Student Teaching Award, UIC Philosophy Department, 2015

• Second-prize winner in 2014 British Society of Aesthetics Essay Prize Contest, for “Explicitism about Truth in Fiction”

• Ruth Marcus Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, UIC Philosophy Department, 2014

• Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Fellowship recipient, UIC, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015

Teaching Experience

At the MCMP:

• Metaphysics and the Sciences, Winter 2020-21 (MA seminar)

• Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Winter 2021-22 (MA seminar)

• Longtermism: Ethics and the Future, Summer 2022 (MA seminar)

At Frankfurt School of Finance and Management:

• Science, Norms and Values, Spring & Fall 2021 (a logic, critical thinking and applied epistemology course for first-year business students)

As primary instructor at UIC:

• PHIL 102: Introduction to Logic, Spring 2020, Summer 2014, Summer 2012 & Fall 2012

• PUBH 300: Critical Thinking in Public Health, Fall 2019 & Fall 2018

• PHIL 110: Ethics, Fall 2017 (at North Central College)

• PHIL 201: Theory of Knowledge, Spring 2017 & Fall 2013

• PHIL 203: Metaphysics, Fall 2016, Spring 2014 & Fall 2011

• PHIL 204: Philosophy of Science, Spring 2015

• PHIL 210: Symbolic Logic, Fall 2014 & Spring 2012

• PHIL 202: Philosophy of Psychology, Summer 2013

• PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophy, Spring 2013

Service

The Reasoner editorial board member, September 2021-present

Number Theory and Nondeductive Methods in Mathematics category editor on PhilPapers

Served as referee for MIT Press, Mind, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Erkenntnis, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophia, Axiomathes, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Journal for General Philosophy of Science and the British Journal of Aesthetics

Co-organized the Summer School in Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, MCMP, August 2022

Co-founded and co-organized the Chicagoland Philosophy Graduate Conference, 2015-2016

Revived and helped run the UIC undergraduate Philosophy Club, 2015-2016

UIC Graduate Student Council representative, 2015-2016

Co-organized Philosophy Department Works in Progress talk series, 2013-2014