• 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.
  • 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.
  • Causal Abstractions of Neural Networks, with A. Geiger, H. Lu, and C. Potts, Proc. NeurIPS.
  • Inference from Explanation, with L. Kirfel and T. Gerstenberg, in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  • Normality and Actual Causal Strength, with J. Kominsky and J. Knobe, in Cognition.
  • Calibrating Generative Models: The Probabilistic Chomsky-Schützenberger Hierarchy, in Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
  • Axiomatization in the Meaning Sciences, with W. Holliday, in The Science of Meaning.
  • A Simple Logic of Concepts, with L. Moss, in Journal of Philosophical Logic.
  • Interleaving Logic and Counting, with J. van Benthem, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic.

    • See here for more links and a longer list of papers, and these links for a few interviews and talks:

  • Adolf Grünbaim Memorial Lecture, Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science
  • Logic & AI, Institute for Advanced Study, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Probabilistic Chomsky Hierarchy, MIT Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

    • 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)
  • Jacqueline Harding (Philosophy & Symbolic Systems)
  • Bendix Kemmann (Philosophy & Symbolic Systems)

    • This autumn quarter I will be teaching "Animal Cognition" at Stanford's Kyoto campus.

    Contact

    I can be reached at surname♠stanford.edu by replacing surname with my surname and ♠ with @.