Positions Held
2009-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Joseph L. Rotman Institute of Science and Values, University of Western Ontario
Education
2004-2009: Department of Philosophy, University of
Pennsylvania
2006: M.A in Philosophy, University of
Pennsylvania
1999-2003: B.S in Mathematics, University of
Wisconsin - Madison
1999-2003: B.S in Philosophy (with honors),
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Summer Schools
2007: Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006: Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School
Beijing,
China
2005: Trento University Summer School in Game Theory and Law &
Economics: "Explaining the Emergence and Design of Institutions, Norms
and Contracts. The Contribution of Evolutionary and Behavioral Game
Theory"
Trento, Italy
Awards, Grants
2009: Research Seed Grant
Joseph L. Rotman Institute of Science and Values, University of Western Ontario
2009: Bacon Fellowship
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
2009: Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
2007: Summer School Support and Travel Award
Santa Fe Institute
2007: Dean's Summer Fellowship in Philosophy
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
2006: PSA Travel Grant
Philosophy of Science Association and the National Science Foundation
2006: Summer School Support and Travel Award
Santa Fe Institute
2006: Summer Research Grant
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania
2005: Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship for Research on Human
Decision Processes
Center for Risk and Decision Processes, The
Wharton School
2005: Provost's Travel Grant to attend Symposium on Risk and
Uncertainty
University of Pennsylvania
2005: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Summer Research Travel
Grant
University of Pennsylvania
2004: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Conference Travel Grant
University of Pennsylvania
Papers
"Robust Simulations"
Philosophy of Science 74 (December 2007)
"Epistemic Landscapes and the Division of Cognitive Labor" (With Michael Weisberg)
Philosophy of Science (Forthcoming)
"Robustness and Idealization in Models of Cognitive Labor" (With Michael Weisberg)
Synthese (Forthcoming)
Presentations
"The View from Everywhere"
The Epistemology of Liberal Democracy - Free Speech, Disagreement and Common Belief
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2008
"Epistemic Diversity and Epistemic Landscapes"
Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association
Pittsburgh, PA, November 2008
"Toward a Mechanism for Realizing Mill's Experiments in Living"
Tenth Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies
Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affiars, UC Berkeley, September 2008
"Agreeing to Disagree: How Conflicting Norms Can be Mutually Reinforcing"
Fundacion Urrutia Eleialde XI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy: Social Norms
San Sebastian, Spain, July 2008
"Spatial Models of Bargaining"
Formal Methods in Philosophy Workshop
University of Pennsylvania, May 2008
"Diversity and the Public Sphere"
Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship Graduate Workshop
University of Pennsylvania, November 2007.
"Correlating Strategies With Neighbors Even When The Goal is Anti-Correlation"
2007 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology
Exeter, England, July 2007
"Diversity and the Social Contract"
Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity
Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2007
"Social Epistemology and Individual Rationality"
Fourth Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop
Carnegie Mellon University, May 2007
"How Computer Simulations are like Telescopes and
Microscopes"
Philosophy of Science Association 2006 Biennial Meeting
Vancouver, BC, November 2006
Comments on Epsen's "Games with Zero-Knowledge Signaling"
Third Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop
University of California - Berkeley, May 2006
"The Emergence of Trust: Preventing Conflicts with
Covenants"
Mind, Brain, and Behavior Graduate Student Conference
Harvard University, May 2006
"The Need for a Plurality of Fairness Norms: An Evolutionary
Account"
Computing and Philosophy Conference (CAP 2005)
Oregon State University, August, 2005
"Fairness Plurality: An Evolutionary Account"
Social Network Analysis: Advances and Applications Forum
Oxford University, July, 2005
"Modeling the Emergence of Multiple Fairness Norms" (with
Cristina Bicchieri)
Social Dynamics Workshop
Santa Fe Institute, April, 2005
"On The Validity of Model-Based Arguments"
Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon
University, April 2005
Service
2009-Present: Referee, Geographical Analysis
2008: Session Chair, Topics in the Philosophy of Biology/Chemistry
2008 Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division
2008: Session Organizer, "Author Meets Critics: J. McKenzie Alexander's The Structural Evolution of Morality,"
Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association
2008-Present: Referee, Politics, Philosophy and Economics
2007-Present: Referee, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
2007-Present: Referee, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
2007-Present: Referee, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
2007-Present: Referee, Philosophical Review
2006-Present: Referee, Journal of Business Ethics
2006: Session Chair, Philosophy of Chemistry
Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting
2005-2007: Coordinator of Inter-Departmental Rationality and Social
Dynamics Seminar
University of Pennsylvania
2004-Present: Co-Coordinator of Graduate Reading Group in Moral and
Political Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
2004: Graduate Student Liason and Graduate Student Assembly
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
2004: Coordinator of Graduate Reading Group in Analytic Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
Teaching
2008: Lecturer, The Moral Foundations of Globalization
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
2008: Lecturer, Introduction to Bioethics
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
2007: Teaching Assistant, Origins and Meaning of Quantum Mechanics
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
2006: Teaching Assistant, Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennslvania
2006: Teaching Assistant, Evolution of Scientific Thought
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
2005: Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Ethics
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
2004: Lecturer, Introduction to Logic
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
2004: Teaching Assistant, Philosophy and Psychology
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
2003: Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University