Zina B. Ward

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Florida State University. My primary research areas are general philosophy of science and philosophy of cognitive science.

I received my PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020. Before that, I completed MPhils in Philosophy and in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, funded by a Herchel Smith Fellowship. I received my BA from Williams College, where I majored in Economics and Philosophy.

Recent Updates

Tom Juzek and I were interviewed for Science Friday about our work on LLMs and the Puzzle of Lexical Overrepresentation

My paper on "Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains" is forthcoming in BJPS