"Its eclectic nature. I am trained in a style of research that places value in the faithful documentation and analysis of the actual practices of experts in certain technical fields. Sometimes this line of work runs the risk of being too removed from the immediate advancement of such fields. (The rather polemical analogy is "as useful as ornithology to birds," but I'd like to think of it as a kind of ethnography of certain specialized expertise.)"
"Other times it may be deemed too down-to-earth to address the Big Questions of what there is and what is right or wrong. Nevertheless, I think there is intrinsic joy in being able to understand and articulate something clearly and deeply, to make explicit what is already implicit (to quote from Penelope Maddy, one of my philosophical role models), and I remain humbled by the privilege of being able to find a home in philosophy for this kind of work."
Jason Zesheng Chen is a logician and philosopher of mathematics focused on foundations, history, and methodology, especially descriptive set theory and the higher infinite. He obtained a Ph.D. under Toby Meadows at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine. He works as product marketing manager for developer relations at Intuit and serves on the APA Non-academic Careers Committee. His research values faithful documentation and analysis of actual expert practices and sometimes resembles an ethnography of specialized expertise. He values making implicit practices explicit and is developing dissertation chapters on evidential import from confluence phenomena.
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