Writing
2026
- Online Communities as Group Agents Can online communities be group agents? Yes. And we miss a lot out if we don't consider them as such. Paper
- Brown-Nash-von Neumann and Smith Dynamics Does the fact that the Brown-Nash-von Neumann dynamics, and the Smith dynamics, do not always eliminate strictly dominated strategies from the population show that the individual learning rules which yield them are irrational?. My answer: no. Notes
2025
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How does Polarisation affect the Quality of Evidence-Based Policy?
I argue that political polarisation negatively affects the quality of evidence-based policy.
Essay
- Why Social Epistemology Needs to Consider Attention I motivate an account of the epistemic and consequences of the attention economy, using credal epistemology to evaluate the non-ideal dimension of attention in belief forming. Essay
2024
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Screening War: Virtue ethics, deskilling, and mediation theory
Novel application of mediation theory to virtue ethical account of moral deskilling, proposing ethical apparatus to assess technology’s effects on moral skills
Essay
- Cowie Loves a Curry: Negative evidence and nativism Developed a novel interpretation of negative evidence and the Logical Problem of Language acquisition in support of nativism by rebuking the work of Fiona Cowie. Essay