Graduate Student Achievements

Publications

(2019). “Fine-Tuning Arguments and Biological Design Arguments: Can the Theist Have Both?” Religious Studies. DOI: 10.1017/S0034412519000374.

(Forthcoming). “An A Priori Refutation of the Classical Pessimistic Induction” Erkenntnis. DOI: 10.1007/s10670-024-00832-5.
(2016). “Regularity Theories Disconfirmed: A Revamped Argument and a Wager” Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1177-y.

(2023) “Helping Novice Students Understand How Logic Relates to Philosophy.” AAPT Studies in Pedagogy 8.

(2023). “A Resilient Punching Bag: A Defense of a Character-Evaluation Account of Blame.” Philosophia. DOI: 10.1007/s11406-022-00596-8.

(2025) Winner of Milton K. Munitz Prize from the American Philosophers Association for his essay “The Collapse of Hume’s Everlasting Check”.

(2026) Winner of William James Prize from the American Philosophers Association for his paper “Equal Opportunities for Future Citizens”

(2025) Winner of Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies Fujimura Prize for her paper “Beyond Fairness”

“What are the Chances? Probability and Social Privilege” at the Association for Practical and Applied Ethics (February 2021).
“Not Those Auxiliary Assumptions: Evidential Evaluation and the Auxiliaries You Can’t Use” at the American Philosophical Association (February 2021).

“Misconceived Track Records about Unconceived Alternatives,” accepted upon invitation to present at the Northeastern Epistemology Workshop, Boston, MA. (2026).
“The Collapse of Hume’s Everlasting Check”, accepted as a Colloquium at the APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL. (2026).
“The Collapse of Hume’s Everlasting Check”, a Symposium to bepresented at the APA Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, MD. (2026).
“Misconceived Track Records about Unconceived Alternatives”, a Colloquium presented at the APA Central Division Meeting (2025).
“An A Priori Solution to the Classical Pessimistic Induction”, a Symposiumpresented at the APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL. (2022).

“Mitigating Curriculum Violence: Assessing Risk in Contemporary Moral Issues Curriculum Decisions” (March 2024).

“Visualizing Sources of Statistical Bias in Risk and Needs Assessment Models” (July 2024).

“Dynamical Models, Scientific Understanding, and Explanatory Unification” at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (June 2023).
“What Justifies the Model-to-Mechanism Mapping Requirement?” at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (March 2022).
“How do Functional Models in Cognitive Science Represent and Explain?” at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (July 2021).
“Does Methodological Adaptationism Presuppose a False Dichotomy?” at American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting in New Orleans, LA. (February 2021).
“On the Plausibility of a Dispositional Analysis of Intrinsic Value,” at Wisconsin Philosophical Association. (August 2020).
“Does Methodological Adaptationism Presuppose a False Dichotomy?” at Philosophy of Science Association. (November 2020).
“On the Scientific Legitimacy of Animal Beliefs” at Minnesota Philosophical Society. (October 2019).
“How Should a Physicalist Respond to the Knowledge Argument?” at American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting in Vancouver, BC. (April 2019).

“How to Construct a Social Kind” at American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting (January 2026).
“How to Construct a Social Kind” at International Social Ontology Society Conference (August 2025).
“How to Construct a Social Kind” at Metaphysical Mayhem, Rutgers University (May 2025).
“Intersectional Social Construction” at International Social Ontology Society Conference (July 2024).
“Two Accounts of the Mutual Constitution of Race and Gender” at American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (April 2024).

“What (Do) We Lose When We Automate Art(?)” at the Wisconsin Philosophical Association (April 2025).