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I am a Dean's Chair Associate Professor in the philosophy department at the National University of Singapore. I received my Ph.D. from Rutgers, where I also received an M.S. in mathematics.

My research focuses on metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of physics – and extends into epistemology, feminist philosophy, and logic as well. Specific research programs include: theories of centered, indexical phenomena; typicality; scientifically up-to-date metaphysics; identity and higher-order languages; social philosophy; and the fundamentality of explanation as formalized by structural equation models.

Before philosophy, I worked as a documentary filmmaker in Chicago. In addition to philosophy, I watch movies, play boardgames, write letters, hike, run, knit, and teach outside of the academy.
Current Teaching
Books
Articles
  1. Centering Update (forthcoming). The Journal of Philosophy.
  2. The Metaphysics of Running Couplings (forthcoming). Philosophers' Imprint.
  3. Typicality-Based Chance (forthcoming). Philosophical Quarterly.
  4. Justifying Typicality Measures (forthcoming). Analysis.
  5. Pure Type Systems and Generalized Grounding (forthcoming). Philosophical Studies.
  6. Wavefunction Mereology (forthcoming). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
  7. Explanation Grounds Causation (forthcoming). Philosophical Studies.
  8. Boltzmann Brains (forthcoming). In S. O. Hansson and A. Wilson, eds., Comprehensive Philosophy of Science. Elsevier.
  9. Centering Cosmological Calculations (forthcoming). In K. Kraay and D. Rubio, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy and the Multiverse. Blackwell.
  10. Three Ontological Options for the Laws of the Best System (2026). Philosophers' Imprint 26: 1-16. (with Heather Demarest)
  11. Review of ``Higher-Order Metaphysics'' (2026). Mind 135: 595-605.
  12. Talk About Types (2025). Mind 134: 1093-1127.
  13. The Typical Principle (2025). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 76: 1059-1076.
  14. Disregard (2025). Hypatia 40: 54-63.
  15. The Value of Naturalness (2025). Erkenntnis 90: 625-644.
  16. Typicality First (2025). Philosophical Quarterly 75: 1189-1209.
  17. Bohmian Collapse (2024). In A. Bassi, S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka, and N. Zanghì, eds., Physics and the Nature of Reality (pp. 63-70). Springer.
  18. Explanatory Circles (2024). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 108: 84-92.
  19. The Propositional Account of Effective Theories (2024). Philosophy of Science 91: 1456-1466.
  20. Worlds are Pluralities (2024). Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102: 221-231.
  21. Centering the Born Rule (2023). Quantum Reports 5: 311-324.
  22. Comparing Mathematical Explanations (2023). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 74: 269-290.
  23. Constitution, Evidence, and an Argument for Realism (2023). Asian Journal of Philosophy 46: 1-10.
  24. Centering the Everett Interpretation (2022). Philosophical Quarterly 72: 1019-1039.
  25. Intrinsicality and Entanglement (2022). Mind 131: 35-58.
  26. Pluralities, Counterparts, and Groups (2022). Philosophical Studies 179: 2133-2153.
  27. Tractability and Laws (2022). Synthese 200: 1-17.
  28. Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation (2022). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 73: 561-581.
  29. Centering the Principal Principle (2021). Philosophical Studies 178: 1897-1915.
  30. Comparing the Structures of Mathematical Objects (2021). Synthese 199: 6357-6369.
  31. Explanatory Priority Monism (2021). Philosophical Studies 178: 1339-1359.
  32. Grounding and Propositional Identity (2021). Analysis 81: 80-81.
  33. The Counteridentical Account of Explanatory Identities (2021). The Journal of Philosophy 118: 57-78.
  34. A Statistical Analysis of Luck (2020). Synthese 197: 867-885.
  35. An Argument for Entity Grounding (2020). Analysis 80: 500-507.
  36. Interventionist Explanation and the Problem of Single Variable Boundary Constraints (2020). Noûs 54: 945-955.
  37. The Logic of Typicality (2020). In V. Allori, ed., Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Explanation: Determinism, Indeterminism and Laws of Nature (pp. 173-229). World Scientific. (with Harry Crane)
  38. The Stage Theory of Groups (2020). Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98: 661-674.
  39. Celestial Chaos: The New Logics of Theory-Testing in Orbital Dynamics (2019). Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 65: 97-102.
  40. The Ontology of Mechanisms (2019). The Journal of Philosophy 116: 615-636.
  41. New Data on the Representation of Women in Philosophy Journals: 2004-2015 (2018). Philosophical Studies 175: 1441-1464. (with Sherri Conklin and Nicole Hassoun)
  42. The Representation of Belief (2018). Journal of Philosophical Logic 47: 715-732.
Public Philosophy
  1. LogIn Project (2024). I was interviewed by Giulia Schirripa for a podcast on feminism and formal methods in philosophy.
  2. Mystical Rationality (2023). In H. De Cruz and J. De Smedt, eds., Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy. Wiley.
  3. Why Christians should welcome face masks (2021, January/February). Messenger 170: 27.
  4. From Ants to Quantum Non-Locality (2017, July). The Daily Ant: Philosophy Phriday. (with Eddy Chen)