I am an independent researcher working in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of quantum information, and epistemology, with a focus on representation, evidence and the limits of empirical access.
I develop Representational Sealing Theory (ReST), set out in 'The Inside of Generatedness'. It examines cases in which a system can refer to, and even correctly represent, a condition on which it depends while lacking the resources to certify from within that its representation is correct. 'What Conceptual Change Cannot Recover' formalises the related question of what inquiry mediated by an interface can and cannot establish. It distinguishes…
I am an independent researcher working in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of quantum information, and epistemology, with a focus on representation, evidence and the limits of empirical access.
I develop Representational Sealing Theory (ReST), set out in 'The Inside of Generatedness'. It examines cases in which a system can refer to, and even correctly represent, a condition on which it depends while lacking the resources to certify from within that its representation is correct. 'What Conceptual Change Cannot Recover' formalises the related question of what inquiry mediated by an interface can and cannot establish. It distinguishes limits arising from a system's current model from those imposed by its available observations or by the function the system must preserve, and gives bounds on the inquiry that certification requires, including for quantum channels.
In 'Blind by Design', I turn to quantum error correction, where epistemic limitation plays an unusual role: blindness to some information is a condition of successful information protection rather than a defect of inquiry. The paper asks when such blindness is required and what it costs.
Current work concerns the foundations of quantum theory and gravity: what no-go arguments about quantum gravity actually establish, and when a change of clock, reference frame or subsystem decomposition changes what an observer can distinguish. I use formal models and computational simulations where they help separate philosophical claims from empirical and mathematical ones.
Before moving into philosophy, I spent more than two decades in electronics and semiconductor engineering, including analog integrated-circuit design and precision instrumentation. I subsequently trained in law (LLB, Staffordshire; LLM with Distinction, Reading), with interests in corporate governance and intellectual property law. This background informs my interest in the boundaries between what a system can physically access, what it can represent, and what it can establish.
