All photos: Shyane Siriwardena
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I am a Teaching Associate on the Foundation Year Programme at the University of Cambridge. The Foundation Year is an exciting new opportunity for students who have faced academic disadvantage to realise their full potential. The course is a fully-funded programme on which students will study a range of topics in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For more information, visit the programme website, linked above.
My academic background is in philosophy; in that discipline, my areas of specialisation are in causation, counterfactuals, and our concepts thereof. In the past, I have conducted research on the ways in which we reason (and speak) causally and counterfactually. This entailed asking questions such as: Why do we reason in these ways? How is the first sort of reasoning related to the second? What are the rules that govern causal and counterfactual reasoning? Beyond matters philosophical, I have written briefly on my experience with mental illness in academia. These musings can be found here. See also my "Week Five Blues". |