KYLE LANDRUM

kylealanlandrum[at]gmail[dot]com

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I'm a postdoc in the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. Before that, I was a postdoc in the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp and in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University, where I also got my PhD. I also have an MA from the University of Houston (where I'm originally from). I work mainly at the intersection of philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of language, but I also have research interests in general philosophy of science, logic, and epistemology. You can find my CV here.

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Most of my research deals with distinction-drawing: what it's like before we've grasped a distinction, how do we represent that distinction after grasping it, and what the grasping consists in. I’m especially interested in examples from science and philosophy where the distinction of interest involves two phenomena that stand in an important relationship to one another, e.g., the way in which mass partially determines weight. My research interfaces with empirical work in cognitive psychology on concepts and the mechanisms constituting our classificatory dispositions.

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Outside of philosophy, I'm an amateur musician, watch David Lynch movies repeatedly, and am writing an overly-ambitious dark fantasy story. The image to the right was generated using ML (Craiyon) via the following input, composed from some of my interests: "concept inference logic ambiguity equivocation distinction".