Areas of Specialization

• Philosophy of Science
  
• the metaphysics of partial belief
• norms governing partial belief
• causation and causal explanation
• interlevel metaphysics
• Decision Theory
• non-expected utility theory
  

Dissertation

What are partial beliefs? Partial beliefs are subject to epistemic norms (e.g. accuracy) and often combine with partial desires roughly in line with pragmatic norms (e.g. utility maximization). I am exploring the importance of these facts in making beliefs what they are.