Cloris Gao
Graduate Student
Biography
Research interests
- Philosophy of probability
- Scientific explanations
- Counterfactuals and indicative conditionals
“Mathematicians characterize prime numbers as their atoms because all numbers can be analyzed as products of the primes. I regard paradoxes as the atoms of philosophy because they constitute the basic points of departure for disciplined speculation.”— Roy Sorensen
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