I am a Professor at Auburn University’s Department of Philosophy. My research interests include philosophy of science, physics, logic, and biology, as well as ethics and philosophy of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

I received my PhD from the department of History and Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh in the Spring of 2015 under the direction of John Earman and John D. Norton. My book, Idealizations in Physics (Cambridge University Press), reviewed by Metascience, discusses the nature and role of idealization in science. See also my co-edited book, Scientific Understanding and Representation: Modeling in the Phy…

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