Philosophy Writings
I was trained in philosophy for many years before turning to AI research. This page collects some essays I wrote as an undergraduate. These writings reflect my early engagement with questions about knowledge, reality, and the philosophy of science, which continue to inform my interest in reasoning today.
Disclaimer: This is undergraduate work from a student who did not end up in a top philosophy PhD program—please calibrate your expectations accordingly and interpret with a sense of charity and humor. 😂
Race: What It Is and What to Be Expected of It
Jan 05, 2020
This essay discusses race as a socially constructed concept.
Interpretation and Understanding
Jan 04, 2020
This essay discusses how the interpretive social sciences have some fundamental epistemic aim (e.g. “understanding”) that differs from fundamental aims of the natural sciences. I later realize that according to these philososphical terms, ‘mech interp’ is actually ‘mech explaination’.
Non-Causal Explanation
Jan 03, 2020
In this essay, I challenged the claim that “To explain an event is to provide information about its causal history”.
Problem of Induction
Jan 02, 2020
In this essay, I discuss the question what does it take for an argument to be a good inductive argument.
Leibniz: The Best of All Possible Worlds
Jan 01, 2020
This essay reviews Leibniz’s argument on the actual world being the best of all possible worlds.
Possible Worlds
Jan 01, 2020
Is there good reason to believe possible worlds other than the actual one exist? In this essay, I will argue that although possible worlds are a useful tool for understanding modality, there is no good reason to believe that possible worlds other than the actual one exist as concrete entities....