Research

I study set theory and the philosophy of mathematics. I also have interests in the philosophy of science. My philosophy advisor is Joel David Hamkins and my math advisor is Nick Ramsey.

Some themes I often find myself thinking about recently: choice principles; notions of constructivity; independence proofs and pluralism; finitely additive probability measures.

La Leçon, Eugène Ionesco

Research Papers

  • “Are nonmeasurable sets significant for epistemology?” Synthese, 2025. Preprint Journal

Recent and Upcoming Talks

  • Mar 28, 2026, TBD, 25th Pitt-CMU Graduate Conference in Philosophy
  • Dec 10, 2025, Finite Additivity, Axiom of Choice, and Bayesian Convergence, IU Bloomington Logic Seminar
  • Jul 7, 2025, Poincaré’s Chalk and Lebesgue’s Measure, BISFORM 2025, Peking University
  • Jun 17, 2025, Rigor, Formalizability, and Values in Mathematics, APPSA-LMPST Taiwan Conference, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  • Jul 11, 2024, The Number of Models of Unstable Theories without Choice, Poster Session of “120 Years of Choice” Conference, University of Leeds
  • Feb 29, 2024, Poincaré’s Dilemma and the Notion of Rigor, “Rigor and the Growth of Knowledge” Conference, Laboratoire SPHere, Université Paris Cité
  • Feb 2, 2024, Poincaré’s Chalk and Lebesgue’s Measure, UC Irvine Graduate Conference in Philosophy

Notes

  • My note on the Borel conjecture. The note contains a writeup for a proof of the independence of the Borel conjecture from ZFC. It follows the first proof of this result due to Laver.