Logan McPhail

Logan is a graduate student in the Decision, Risk, and Financial Sciences program. He completed his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the University of Melbourne, with a core interest in contemporary epistemology and cognitive science.

Broadly inspired by the naturalized turn in epistemology, his research focuses on addressing traditional questions in epistemology, decision theory, and metaethics through philosophical, experimental, and formal methodologies. He is currently interested in (a) whether the intractability of certain inferential problems, given bounded cognition, can be captured by a modal epistemic logic, (b) whether this logic can be interpreted on a topological space, and (c) how such a formalism might inform the nature of “hard choices,” and how individuals and groups ought to respond to them.

In his spare time, he is an avid reader of the history of philosophy - with a key interest in 19th and 20th century American and English pragmatism.