Central APA handout here.
Central APA handout here.
I'm a second-year PhD student in Philosophy at MIT, advised by Kevin Dorst.
I mainly work on epistemology and philosophy of language.
Before MIT, I studied philosophy and mathematics at Tufts University. Before that I was born and raised in Beijing, China.
You may reach me at hfang811 [at] mit.edu.
Here's my cv.
Guessing and its Limits
forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
TLDR: I present a novel puzzle for a recent "question-sensitive" theory of guessing/belief in multi-question scenarios. The problem generalizes to formally parallel theories of attitudes and modals.
[a paper on normality]
[a paper on knowledge and certainty]
[a paper on externalist Bayesianism]
Tentative: Two Tales of Normality
Orange Beach Epistemology Workshop, Alabama, May 2026
Tentative: What is Evidence, and What Do We Want it to Be?
Northeastern Epistemology Workshop, Boston, April 2026
M.A.T.T.I., MIT, March 2026
Comments on Adrian Liu's 'Finding Balance in Uncertain Times'
Central APA Symposium, Chicago, February 2026
me in action; photo by Yong Xin Hui