About

I am a philosopher of technology, where technology is broadly and etymologically construed as concerning technê. Technê, or expertise, refers not merely to skills for engineering cutting-edge artefacts, but also to the excellence of physicians, musicians, athletes, psychotherapists, writers, and researchers. My research intersects with philosophy of psychology on expertise acquisition and with philosophy of biology on expertise evolution. I explore how empirical understanding of expertise bears on the relation between technê and epistêmê (scientific understanding) in epistemology, the analogy between technê and virtue in ethics, the demarcation between natural and social sciences in philosophy of science, and the origin of the human mind in philosophy of mind.

I recently completed my PhD in Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. From 2021 to 2023, I was the Fay Horton Sawyier Predoctoral Teaching Fellow at Illinois Institute of Technology. My previous degrees are from Stanford University and Tsinghua University. Before pursuing philosophy, I worked as a software engineer at Google.

Model of Brewers, Bakers, and Butchers from an Egyptian Tomb (ca. 2030–1640 B.C.). Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.