Other Works
This page is meant to provide some samples of my academic work. See below some of my favorite pieces of philosophy I have written during my time at the University of Pennsylvania Philosophy department and the London School of Economics department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method.
A Critique of Epistemic Injustice: Explaining Unstable Relationships Between Epistemic Credit and Identity Illuminated By the Deaf Experience
This piece is my undergraduate thesis and was completed in the Fall of 2023. I was supervised by Dr. Daniel Wodak and was granted departmental honors by the University of Pennsylvania’s Philosophy Department.
Mechanisms Matter: The Substantive Difference of their Inclusion in RCTs
This essay was written in January 2025 for Dr. Liam Kofi Bright’s Evidence and Policy course.
On the Compatibility of the Use of Algorithms in Parole Decisions and Egalitarian Norms
This essay was written in March 2025 for Dr. Lewis Ross’s course, Anarchy, Authority, and Evidence.
Going for Gold: A Proposal to Raise the Evidentiary Status of Mechanistic Reasoning in Rare Disease Medicine
This piece is my master’s dissertation and was completed in the Summer of 2025. I was supervised by Dr. Miklos Redei.
Demonstrating Ian Peebles’ Argument in “To Race or Not to Race: A Normative Debate in the Philosophy of Race” to Not be Deductively Sound
This essay was written in May 2024 for Dr. Quayshawn Spencer’s seminar, Philosophy of Biology.
The Rationality of the Default Status of Majority Rule
This essay was written in April 2025 for Dr. Jason Mckenzie Alexander’s Social Choice Theory section of Rationality and Choice.
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