[MA Thesis] Indispensable Infinities: An Aspect-Pluralist Approach to Mathematical Idealization and Ontology
(under review) Phase Transitions and the Roles of Mathematics in Natural Science
(wip) Complexity Realism
Publications
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Professional Presentations
“Infinite Aspects: Phase Transitions and the Role(s) of Mathematics in Natural Science,” (Paris Londron University of Salzburg)
“Mathematics, Mechanisms, and Motives: Towards A Radical Explanatory Pluralism for the Life Sciences,” (Rotman Institute; University of Utah)
“Spinoza’s Principle of Non-Contradiction,” (Johns Hopkins University)
“Plato’s Platonism Reconsidered: An Economic Argument for Geometric Form,” (University of Florida)
“Moral Facts and Metaphysical Ground: On the Normative Role of Disease in Biomedical Science,” (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Misc. Writing*
Better to Be: Care and the Value of Existence
If 6 were 9, I'd Be Fine: Counterarithmeticals and Modal Epistemology
Mathematical Indispensability without Explanation
Wittgenstein on Critical Novelty: A Reply to Marcuse
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Courses I've helped teach
PHIL11o Logic & Critical Thinking (CSU)
PHIL120 History & Philosophy of Scientific Thought (CSU)
PHIL100 Appreciation of Philosophy (CSU)
PHIL220 Epistemology (Lehigh)
PHIL139 Contemporary Philosophy (Lehigh)