Research
Essentialism and the Essence of what it is to be Necessary
Under review at Philosophical Studies. Manuscript
I argue that if necessity is grounded in essence, the necessity of essence should be essential to what it is to be necessary.
Belief Revision in Truthmaker Semantics
Manuscript
I develop several hyperintensional AGM-style belief revision frameworks with the resources of Finean truthmaker semantics to model local rationality.
Demystifying Anchoring
B.A. thesis, advised by Prof. Duen-Min Deng. Unfinished manuscript
I argue that anchoring need not be a sui generis metaphysical relation by examining various possible cases of exportation.
Abstract Object Theory and the Fictionally Fictional
NSTC Research Project for College Students, advised by Prof. Hsien-Chieh Nihel Jhou. Unfinished manuscript
I present a counterargument against Zalta's abstract object theory from the case of fictional fictions and their objects.