Questions in Science
I have become increasingly interested in making questions a central theme in my research. The work has three distinct but interwoven threads. First, my work with Marina DiMarco focuses on how the questions that scientists pursue interact with epistemic, moral, and social values. Second, my work with Jared Millson develops and defends the idea that true answers to relevant questions are the fundamental kind of epistemic value. Third, my work with Millson and Mark Risjord uses questions to develop a novel account of scientific representation. Many of these ideas are coming together in a book project with Millson and Risjord, tentatively titled Segregation and Social Inquiry: The Politics of Scientific Representation.
Articles and Book Chapters
- 2022. "Scientific representation: an inferentialist-expressivist manifesto." Philosophical Topics 50 (1) (with Jared Millson and Mark Risjord)
- 2022. "Sins of inquiry: how to criticize scientific pursuits." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 92: 86-96. (with Marina DiMarco)
- 2020. "Understanding, truth, and epistemic goals." Philosophy of Science 87 (5):944-956.
- 2020. "Explanatory obligations." Episteme. 17 (3): 384-401. (with Jared Millson)
- 2020. "Questions, perspectives, and epistemic value." In Knowledge for a Human Point of View. edited by A. Cretu and M. Massimi. Dordrecht: Springer. (with Jared Millson).
- 2019. "Inquiry tickets: values, pursuit, and underdetermination." Philosophy of Science. 86 (5):1016-1028. (with Marina DiMarco).
- 2011. "Contrastive explanations as social accounts." Social Epistemology. 24 (4): 265-286.