Pre-PhD Instructor
I have taught and TA'd for a wide variety of classes, usually focussed on either philosophy of science, political philosophy, or the intersection thereof. I have introduced new classes to the LSE focussed on the philosophy of Race and Gender, and also a social theory reading group. I am always happy to talk about potential syllabus ideas or teaching points on anything in my areas of expertise.
While I cannot guarantee my availability, I have tried to make myself available to summer schools which aim at expanding access to the field, such as the PIKSI Logic programmes or the John Jay summer school for formerly incarcerated persons. At these I have taught on decision theory and social philosophy. If you have an idea for some such reach out to me, we'll see if we can make it work.
PhD Advising
I sometimes get emails from people interested in studying with me at the graduate level. To save people some time and clear up some confusions, I have some general pieces of advice for anyone who is interested in working with me that I can give here.
As to my past and current students, I will keep a running tally here, to give yinz a sense of what sorts of things I am getting up to as an advisor
- Primary Advisor:
Somayeh Tohidi: working on formal epistemology for non-ideal agents, my work with her focuses on the use of statistical evidence drawn from social scientific inquiry in the context of discriminatory societies.
Bele Wollesen: working on strategy-proofness in game theory, my work with her focuses on epistemic properties of methods of judgement aggregation.
- Secondary Advisor:
Stephanie Wanga: working on African political theory and post-colonial democracy, my work with her focuses on 20thC African political philosophy.
-External Committee Member:
Emily C.R. Tilton: working on feminist philosophy, my work with her focuses on standpoint epistemology and meta-philosophy.
-Former Students
Fabian Beigang: works on algorithmic use of causal modelling techniques and the socio-ethical or political consequences of how this is done, my work with him concerned methodology in causal reasoning about race. Now a data scientist working with the NHS.
Margherita Harris: works on modelling and uncertainty management in climate science and policy, my work with her concerned robustness reasoning and the advantages of multi-method approaches. Soon to be a fellow at the Pittsburgh Centre for Philosophy of Science
Jingyi Wu: working on both philosophy of physics and at the intersection of social epistemology, network modelling, and philosophy of race and gender; my work with her focused on formal epistemology and discrimination. Now my colleague as an assistant professor of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics!
I have taught and TA'd for a wide variety of classes, usually focussed on either philosophy of science, political philosophy, or the intersection thereof. I have introduced new classes to the LSE focussed on the philosophy of Race and Gender, and also a social theory reading group. I am always happy to talk about potential syllabus ideas or teaching points on anything in my areas of expertise.
While I cannot guarantee my availability, I have tried to make myself available to summer schools which aim at expanding access to the field, such as the PIKSI Logic programmes or the John Jay summer school for formerly incarcerated persons. At these I have taught on decision theory and social philosophy. If you have an idea for some such reach out to me, we'll see if we can make it work.
PhD Advising
I sometimes get emails from people interested in studying with me at the graduate level. To save people some time and clear up some confusions, I have some general pieces of advice for anyone who is interested in working with me that I can give here.
- Look to my research page to get a sense of the projects I am interested in. I am open to working with people who do not quite work on these topics, but the proposed project or area of study will have to be thematically related to at least one of the research strands I indicate there.
- At the LSE we have a policy of assigning everyone a primary and secondary advisor. What is more, even if we did not do that, I would always advise any graduate student to only apply to a school if there are at least two people in your favoured department that you can imagine working with. So make sure your proposed project is something that would fit the general research approach of the LSE, and that you can name someone on faculty besides me who would also be good to work with on some aspect of your project.
- I like to collaborate and do interdisciplinary work! Don't be afraid to suggest connections to work going on at the LSE outside of the philosophy department. Likewise feel free to reach out if you are not in the philosophy department but looking for a secondary supervisor! We can at least see if that could be arranged, depending on the details of the particular case.
As to my past and current students, I will keep a running tally here, to give yinz a sense of what sorts of things I am getting up to as an advisor
- Primary Advisor:
Somayeh Tohidi: working on formal epistemology for non-ideal agents, my work with her focuses on the use of statistical evidence drawn from social scientific inquiry in the context of discriminatory societies.
Bele Wollesen: working on strategy-proofness in game theory, my work with her focuses on epistemic properties of methods of judgement aggregation.
- Secondary Advisor:
Stephanie Wanga: working on African political theory and post-colonial democracy, my work with her focuses on 20thC African political philosophy.
-External Committee Member:
Emily C.R. Tilton: working on feminist philosophy, my work with her focuses on standpoint epistemology and meta-philosophy.
-Former Students
Fabian Beigang: works on algorithmic use of causal modelling techniques and the socio-ethical or political consequences of how this is done, my work with him concerned methodology in causal reasoning about race. Now a data scientist working with the NHS.
Margherita Harris: works on modelling and uncertainty management in climate science and policy, my work with her concerned robustness reasoning and the advantages of multi-method approaches. Soon to be a fellow at the Pittsburgh Centre for Philosophy of Science
Jingyi Wu: working on both philosophy of physics and at the intersection of social epistemology, network modelling, and philosophy of race and gender; my work with her focused on formal epistemology and discrimination. Now my colleague as an assistant professor of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics!