My primary research focuses on developing and defending a "protocol-theoretic" logical framework for normative epistemology and the study of normativity more broadly. The formalism itself is based on a novel variant of propositional dynamic logic that makes extensive use of graph-theoretic tools to model the content of procedural norms. The primary virtue of shifting to a dynamic logic over (e.g.) standard modal logics is that doing so provides a foundation for building logics of actions, procedures, controllable attitudes, and dynamic changes in epistemic states, which, I argue, are the proper objects of the kinds of epistemic - or other - normative principles that are central to inquiry and agency. 

My dissertation (https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2825/) inaugurated this project, with a basic system and a presentation of the central philosophical motivations of the project.

My first book (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-08597-0) presented a far more worked out version of the system and the philosophical motivations of the system. This work also presented, for the first time, the system's main technical results.

My current work is focused on completing a follow-up monograph that revises and updates the protocol-theoretic framework, especially its main technical results. The main aim of the new book, which should see publication next year, is fully exploiting the revised formalism's potential for the first time. The book does so by building deontic, epistemic, and justification logics into the protocol-theoretic system and showing that the resulting logic simultaneously solves the hyperintensionality "paradoxes" for epistemic and normative contexts, the central standard and dynamic deontic paradoxes, and more robustly solves the epistemological problems that motivated the project in the first place. 

My secondary research interests are a little less niche, generally encompassing philosophical logic and social epistemology, especially where they intersect with meta-ethics and normativity, and also branching out to general and formal philosophy of science, as well as philosophy of religion. I've not published research in these broader areas, yet. However, if all goes to plan, some work in philosophy of religion should finally be ready for the light of day soon, as should some work in social epistemology. 

As such, I know a little bit about formal logic, a little bit about epistemology and philosophy of science, and a little bit about the cognitive science of reasoning, and I've been fortunate enough to be able to intertwine these fields of knowledge in my teaching. The most common courses in which you can find me weaving these threads together are Introduction to Philosophy, Logical Reasoning, and Biomedical Ethics. My focus in teaching has always been on helping my students develop intellectual virtues - especially epistemic humility and skills related to metacognitive reflection. This focus is most clear in the courses that I was able to pioneer in the epistemology of conspiracy theories here, at CCNY. 

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