Helena Fang
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I am a second-year PhD student in Philosophy at MIT, advised by Kevin Dorst.
I will be a visiting student at USC in Fall 2026, sponsored by Dmitri Gallow.
I mainly work on epistemology and philosophy of language, with interests in metaphysics, decision theory, and philosophical logic.
Before MIT, I studied philosophy and mathematics at Tufts. Before that I was born and raised in Beijing, China.
You may reach me at hfang811 [at] mit.edu.
publication
Guessing and its Limits. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2026.
I present a puzzle for a "question-sensitive" theory of belief/guessing in multi-question scenarios. The problem generalizes to formally parallel theories of attitudes and modals.
work in progress
work in progress
[a paper on normality]
[a paper on knowledge and certainty reports]
[a paper on externalist Bayesianism]
recent presentations
Knowing for Certain
Philosophy of Language Association Conference (PLA), UCLA, September 2026
Evidence Noncontrastivism, Or: What is Evidence, and What Do We Want it to Be?
Beyond Basic Bayesianism, University of Helsinki, May 2026
Orange Beach Epistemology Workshop, Alabama, May 2026
Northeastern Epistemology Workshop, Northeastern University, April 2026
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