Forthcoming. "Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.[final]
Forthcoming. "What Does it Mean to Say that Science is Value-Laden?" In The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science (ed. Kevin Elliott and Ted Richards). [preprint]
Forthcoming. “Are the ‘Female Brain’ and ‘Male Brain’ Natural Kinds?” In Introducing Philosophy of Mind, Today (ed. Louise Daoust and Devin Sanchez Curry).
Forthcoming. “Word Overuse and Alignment in Large Language Models: The Influence of Learning from Human Feedback.” Proceedings of the BIAS 2025 Workshop at ECML/PKDD 2025. (with Tom S. Juzek) [See also our Science Friday interview]
2025. "Why Does ChatGPT 'Delve' So Much? Exploring the Sources of Lexical Overrepresentation in Large Language Models." Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). (with Tom S. Juzek) [preprint]
2024. "To Hedge or Not to Hedge: Scientific Claims and Public Justification." Philosophy of Science. (with Kathleen Creel) [preprint][final]
2024. "Disagreement and Values in Science." In The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Disagreement (ed. Maria Baghramian, Adam Carter, and Rach Cosker-Rowland). [preprint]
2023. "Explaining Individual Differences." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
[preprint][final]
2023. "William Whewell, Cluster Theorist of Kinds." HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
[preprint][final]
2023. "Muscles or Movements? Representation in the Nascent Brain Sciences." Journal of the History of Biology [preprint] [final]
2022. "Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation Across Brains." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. [preprint][final] **winner of the Popper Prize
2022. "Cognitive Variation: The Philosophical Landscape." Philosophy Compass. [preprint][final]
2021. "On Value-Laden Science." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. [preprint][final]
Reviews and Commentaries
2019. Book Review: Exploring Inductive Risk: Case Studies of Values in Science, ed. Kevin C. Elliott and Ted Richards. Journal of Moral Philosophy. [preprint][final]
2018. "'Defeaters' Don't Matter." Commentary on John Doris' "Précis of Talking to Our Selves." Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (with Edouard Machery) [final]
2014. "Reexamining Penfield's Homunculus." Letter to the Editor, Journal for the History of the Neurosciences. [final]
Under Review
Paper on motor representation
Other Writing
2023. "The Individuation of Cognitive Kinds." Brains Blog commentary on Muhammad Ali Khalidi's Cognitive Ontology. [access]
2019. "Empirically-Informed Approaches to Weakness of Will." Brains Blog roundtable contribution.
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