Curriculum Vitae
Education
BA in Mathematics and Philosophy (ongoing)
University of Oxford
- Strawson Prize (£200) for best philosophy essay among Magdalen undergrads
- Graduate seminars in rational choice, language, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics Decision theory, social choice theory; formal semantics, knowledge of meaning; formal epistemology, topics in epistemology; metaphysics, modal metaphysics; digital minds, non-consequentialism
- Magdalen demyship (£200) for distinction in mathematics and philosophy prelims With scores of 75+ in real analysis, general philosophy & Frege, and philosophical topics in logic and probability
- Distinction in philosophy, politics, and economics prelims I did a year of PPE before transferring to math/phil, like someone in the year above me (she's now doing AI safety research) and another in the year below me (she's also now doing AI safety research, and actually dropped philosophy). Decades earlier, a co-author on one of my favourite papers made this switch, too.
- Perfect score of 104.6 on entrance exam (Thinking Skills Assessment) For context, “only a few very exceptional applicants will achieve scores higher than 80” (see charts). However, I did lose a mark on the SAT (1590).
High School and IB Diploma
Downingtown STEM Academy
- Chester County Student Forum President
- Class rank 1 of ~200, with IB HL math and physics in grades 9–10
- Coursework (philosophy) and supervised independent reading (statistics) at UPenn
- First place ($500) in FBLA Economics Nationals
Papers
Under Review
- [Anonymised] (second author, with Daniel Kodsi) – epistemology Articulates a heuristic for using linguistic expressions as proxies for their contents, and argues that it influences ordinary reasoning about speech reports, individuation, and sentential truth.
In Draft
- ‘Against direct causation’ (first author, with Daniel Kodsi) – metaphysics Presents two inconsistency results for the supposed necessary equivalence between all pairs of sentences like ‘the wave destroyed the sandcastle’ and ‘the wave made it such that the sandcastle got destroyed’.
- ‘You may tell only if you can tell’ (single author) – philosophy of language Argues that the knowledge norm on assertion, but not its rivals, can provide a simple account of the semantics of expressions like ‘S can tell that P’.
In Preparation
- ‘Towards a formal theory of cooperative intelligence’ (junior author) – computer science
Activities
Co-President
Oxford Philosophy Society
A group that hosts lectures from visiting academics and publishes an undergrad journal.
Research Associate
Future Impact Group
Evaluating extant characterisations of cooperative intelligence with Lewis Hammond.
Public Philosophy
Substack
Five-figure views and hundreds of subscribers, including professional philosophers.