• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Philosophical Logic
  • Associate Editor, Open Mind

    • Publications

    Some representative publications include:

  • Resource Rationality, early book draft.
  • Why be Random?, Mind.
  • Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretabiltiy, with A. Geiger, D. Ibeling, A. Zur, M. Chaudhary, S. Chauhan, J. Huang, A. Arora, Z. Wu, N. Goodman, and C. Potts, Journal of Machine Learning Research.
  • Probing the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Probabilistic Reasoning, with D. Ibeling, K. Mierzewski, and M. Mossé, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic.
  • A Topological Perspective on Causal Inference, with D. Ibeling, Proc. NeurIPS.
  • Inference from Explanation, with L. Kirfel and T. Gerstenberg, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  • Normality and Actual Causal Strength, with J. Kominsky and J. Knobe, Cognition.
  • Calibrating Generative Models: The Probabilistic Chomsky-Schützenberger Hierarchy, Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
  • Axiomatization in the Meaning Sciences, with W. Holliday, The Science of Meaning.
  • A Simple Logic of Concepts, with L. Moss, Journal of Philosophical Logic.
  • Interleaving Logic and Counting, with J. van Benthem, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic.

    • See here for a longer list of papers.

    Teaching & Advising

    I have been unreasonably fortunate to work with truly amazing students. Some recent/current Ph.D. students:

  • Krzysztof Mierzewski (Philosophy, 2020)
  • Declan Thompson (Philosophy & Symbolic Systems, 2023)
  • Cristina Ceballos (Law & Philosophy, 2023)
  • Duligur Ibeling (Computer Science, 2024)
  • Atticus Geiger (Linguistics, 2024)
  • David Gottlieb (Philosophy & Symbolic Systems)
  • Jacqueline Harding (Philosophy & Symbolic Systems)
  • Bendix Kemmann (Philosophy & Symbolic Systems)

    • And M.S. students in Symbolic Systems:

  • Brendan Fleig-Goldstein
  • Dirk Hofland
  • Ethan Herenstein
  • Jack Beasley
  • Kara Schechtman
  • Junyi Tao
  • Puyin Li