I am a graduate student in the philosophy side of
MIT’s Department
of Linguistics
and Philosophy. Most
of my work is in the philosophy of mind and language,
metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics. I am
also interested in some questions in metaethics, the
foundations of set theory, and formal
epistemology.
You can find more about my research
here.
Most of my current work focuses on problems that arise when one tries to give a broadly Bayesian picture of our cognitive systems. I am particularly interested in accounting for the bits of our cognitive lives that seem most resistant to Bayesian treatment (morality, mathematics and modality), and in the implications of so doing for our theories of rationality. I also work on methodological issues that arise in motivating this type of project. In particular, I am interested in the way in which our metaphysics and our theory of content should constrain one another.
TBD.
Philosophy and Model Theory, University of Paris X (Nanterre) and IHPST, June 2010.
An account of mathematical practice.
Escuela Iberoamericana de Filosofía Analítica, University of Buenos Aires, September 2009.
Communication for expressivists (with Paolo Santorio).
Eminees reading group, Harvard University, November 2008.
What expressivism could not be (with Paolo Santorio).
MIT Work in Progress seminar, May 2008.
Projection, Accommodation, and the Proviso Problem
MIT-Paris Workshop on Presuppositions and Implicatures, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), May 2007.
I’m not teaching this semester (Fall 2009).
I am originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Before coming to Cambridge, I spent a few years in Paris doing musicology, logic, some philosophy and more logic. And before that, I spent some time back home doing some math and music.
You can find a pdf version of my curriculum vitae here.
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