Essays
On philosophy, politics, economics, physics, and the intersections between them
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On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Why do abstract mathematical structures invented for their own sake keep reappearing, unchanged, in the fundamental laws of nature?
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The Epistemology of Models
What does it mean for a model to be true? A look at representation, idealization, and the strange success of fiction in science.
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Markets, Morality, and Mechanism Design
When should we let markets allocate things, and when is that a moral failure? Drawing on Sandel, Roth, and the theory of matching.