Josiah Lopez-Wild

Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
University of California, Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza A
Irvine, CA 92697-5100

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I am a PhD student in the Logic and Philosophy of Science department at the University of California, Irvine. Before that I was an MA student in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and before that I earned a BA in Philosophy from Northwestern University.

I work primarily in formal epistemology and mathematical logic. In particular, I am interested in the foundations of probability theory, computable analysis (especially measure theory), algorithmic information theory, and computational and statistical learning theory. I am interested in combining these tools to design Bayesian models of automated mathematical reasoning and to understand goal-oriented behavior, especially reward gaming.

In summer 2022 I will be a PIBBSS fellow. I will be working with Ramana Kumar, Abram Demski, and Daniel Herrmann on the connection between decision theory and goal-oriented behavior.