Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2007
Appointed at UMass: 2007

Areas of Interest:

Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics

Current Research:

Ways of extending Bayesianism to accommodate self-locating beliefs, and impossibility results regarding such extensions, the structure of chance theories and the relation between credence and chance, the tenability of using representation theorems to justify various tenets of decision theory, and the possibility of deriving something like reflection from first principles.

Publications:

"Sleeping Beauty and the Dynamics of De Se Beliefs", forthcoming in Philosophical Studies

"Three Proposals Regarding a Theory of Chance", Philosophical Perspectives 19 (2005): 281-307

"Clark and Shackel on the Two-Envelope Paradox", with Jonathan Weisberg, Mind 112 (2003): 685-689