CV

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Education

• Ph.D. Candidate Philosophy (LPS), University of California, Irvine, 2025 [Expected].
  • Graduate Emphasis in Biology and the Behavioral Sciences
  • Advisor: Cailin O’Connor
  • Dissertation: “Is it ever good to hide dissent in science?: a network modeling approach to dissent”
• MSc Philosophy of Science, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2017-2018
• BSc (Hons) Mathematics, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014-2017

Publications

• Sherlock, Emma, Matthew Coates and Csaba Csuzdi. “Modelling of climatic tolerances of three earthworm species; Satchellius mammalis, Lumbricus friendi and Lumbricus festivus using Maximum Entropy Modeling”. Opuscula Zoologica. 53(1): 51–65. 2022

Works in Progress

• Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence? [In Preperation]
• Keynes, Wittgenstein, and Probability in the Tractatus [In Preperation]

Talks and Presentations

Refereed

• “Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?”, Workshop on Computational Models in Social Epistemology. Bochum, Germany. December 2023
• “Modelling Hiding Dissent in Journal Publications”, 17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST). Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 2023
• “Modelling Hiding Dissent in Journal Publications”. Poster at the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA). Pittsburgh, PA. November 2022.
• “Modelling Scientific Advisory Groups”. Poster at the Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW). Irvine, CA. November 2022.

Invited

• “Modelling Hiding Dissent in Journal Publications”, Science, Values, and Policy workshop, June 2023
• “The Unconscious Conventionalism of the Geometry of Space Time”, 6th LSE-Bayreuth Student Philosophy Conference, University of Bayreuth, May 2018

Awards and Fellowships

• LPS Graduate Service Award (UC Irvine, 2023, $150)
• Social Science Merit Fellowship, School of Social Science (UC Irvine, 2019-2025)

Service

• Reviewer, UC Irvine Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2023-2024
• Coordinator, Work-in-Progress (WiP) talk series, UC Irvine LPS, 2023-2024.
• Coordinator, Kent Johnson Memorial Fund Teaching Workshop: Syllabus Design, UC Irvine, Fall 2023.
• Judge, Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Session, UC Irvine, May 2023.
• Co-organizer, Conference on “Values, Fairness, and Machine Learning,” UC Irvine, June 2022.
• Organizer, Talk by John Worrall, The London School of Economics and Political Science, November 2017.
• Volunteer Curation and Research, Freeliving and Parasitic Worm Collections, Natural History Museum London, 2017-2019.
• Founder and President, Philosophy Society, Queen Mary, University of London, 2016-2017

Teaching

Instructor

• Philosophy of Sex (LPS 91), Fall 2023, UC Irvine
• Introduction to Symbolic Logic (LPS 30), Summer 2023, UC Irvine

Teaching Assistant

• Voting and Manipulation (Pol Sci 151), Winter 2024, UC Irvine
• Global Economy (Econ 13), Spring 2023, UC Irvine
• Philosophy of Sex (LPS 91), Winter 2023, UC Irvine
• Peoples of the Pacific (Anthro 163A), Fall 2022, UC Irvine
• Introduction to Inductive Logic (LPS 31), Spring 2022, UC Irvine
• Introduction to Symbolic Logic (LPS 30), Winter 2022, UC Irvine [Hybrid]
• Critical Reasoning (LPS 29), Fall 2021, UC Irvine [Online]
• Introduction to Symbolic Logic (LPS 30), Winter 2021, UC Irvine [Online]
• Critical Reasoning (LPS 29), Fall 2020, UC Irvine [Online]
• Introduction to Inductive Logic (LPS 31), Spring 2020, UC Irvine [Online]
• Critical Reasoning (LPS 29), Winter 2020, UC Irvine

Research Employment and Collaborations

• Graduate Student Researcher, Supported by NSF grant 1922424: “Consensus, Democracy, and the Public Understanding of Science” (Co-PIs O’Connor and Weatherall). Conducted research on hiding dissent by scientists. Summers 2020, 2021
• Researcher, Freeliving and Parasitic Worm Collections, Natural History Museum London. Helped to perform research using mapping and computational modelling to understand the effects of climate change on worm populations. 2017-2019

Additional Educational and Professional Training

• Kent Johnson Memorial Fund Teaching Workshop: Syllabus Design, Spring 2023
• Microsoft Excel Core Certification

Graduate coursework(*=audit)

UC Irvine

• Puzzles in Modern Biology (with Steve Frank)
• How We Became Human (with Kyle Stanford)*
• Game Theory in the Philosophy of Biology (with Cailin O’Connor)
• Social Dynamics (with Louis Narens and Brian Skyrms) x3
• Mathematical and Computational Biology (with German Encisco)
• Keynes’ Philosophy of Probability (independent study with Brian Skyrms)
• Chance (with Simon Huttegger and Brian Skyrms)
• Intro to Voting Theory (with Marek Kaminski)
• Emerging Inequality (with Cailin O’Connor)*
• History of Analytic Philosophy (with Jeremy Heis)
• Philosophy of Science (topic: Decision Theory and Deliberation with Simon Huttegger)
• Philosophy of Cosmology (with Chris Smeenk and James Weatherall)*
• Political Economy 1 (with Stergios Skaperdas)
• Kant’s First Critique (with Jeremy Heis)
• The Social Contract (with Brian Skyrms)
• Network Epistemology (with Cailin O’Connor)
• Incompleteness (with Toby Meadows)
• Metalogic (with Toby Meadows)
• Money (with Aaron James)
• University Teaching x4

LSE

• Set Theory and Further Logic (with Miklos Redei and David Makinson)*
• Philosophy of Science (with Ioannis Votsis)
• Einstein for Everyone (with Bryan Roberts)
• Physics and the City (with Bryan Roberts)