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64Between a Stone and a Hausdorff SpaceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science. forthcoming.
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285Better than Best: Epistemic Landscapes and Diversity of Practice in SciencePhilosophy of Science. forthcoming.When solving a complex problem in a group, should group members always choose the best available solution that they are aware of? In this paper, I build simulation models to show that, perhaps surprisingly, a group of agents who individually randomly follow a better available solution than their own can end up outperforming a group of agents who individually always follow the best available solution. This result has implications for the feminist philosophy of science and social epistemology.
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46The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and CultureGalaxies 11 (1): 32. 2023.This white paper outlines the plans of the History Philosophy Culture Working Group of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
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1669Epistemic Advantage on the Margin: A Network Standpoint EpistemologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research (3): 1-23. 2022.I use network models to simulate social learning situations in which the dominant group ignores or devalues testimony from the marginalized group. I find that the marginalized group ends up with several epistemic advantages due to testimonial ignoration and devaluation. The results provide one possible explanation for a key claim of standpoint epistemology, the inversion thesis, by casting it as a consequence of another key claim of the theory, the unidirectional failure of testimonial reciproc…Read more
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406Explaining Universality: Infinite Limit Systems in the Renormalization Group MethodSynthese (5-6): 14897-14930. 2021.I analyze the role of infinite idealizations used in the renormalization group (RG hereafter) method in explaining universality across microscopically different physical systems in critical phenomena. I argue that despite the reference to infinite limit systems such as systems with infinite correlation lengths during the RG process, the key to explaining universality in critical phenomena need not involve infinite limit systems. I develop my argument by introducing what I regard as the explanato…Read more
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435How should we promote transient diversity in science?Synthese 201 (2): 1-24. 2023.Diversity of practice is widely recognized as crucial to scientific progress. If all scientists perform the same tests in their research, they might miss important insights that other tests would yield. If all scientists adhere to the same theories, they might fail to explore other options which, in turn, might be superior. But the mechanisms that lead to this sort of diversity can also generate epistemic harms when scientific communities fail to reach swift consensus on successful theories. In …Read more
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London School of EconomicsDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodAssistant Professor