I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison. I work on general philosophy of science, formal epistemology, and philosophy of biological and social sciences. The two things filling my mind with ever-new wonder and awe are causation, the glue of the universe, and probability, the guide of life. 

My dissertation reflects on the achievements of interventionism, compared to Hempel's classical account of explanation. Specifically, it examines probabilistic causation, with two central questions: (1) how can probabilistic relations be causal, given their inability to support straightforward counterfactual reasoning? (2) how can probabilistic explanations be objective, given the relativeness of probability to reference class? For more, see the "research" page.

While being a philosopher, I'm also a research assistant at Collaborative for Reproductive Equity. This UW-Madison SMPH-affiliated scientist community conducts policy-relevant research on access to abortion and contraception in Wisconsin and beyond. 

The aim of philosophy, in Sellars's words, is to understand how things hang together and to know one's way around with respect to these things. This is the spirit I try to carry in my philosophical works.