David Rose

I am currently a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University where I am advised by Tobias Gerstenberg and Ellen Markman. Before coming to Stanford, I earned a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University under the supervision of Jonathan Schaffer and Stephen Stich.

My research is on categorization and causation and is guided by two broad questions. How do we determine what makes something the kind of thing that it is? And how do we determine what causes what? I take an interdisciplinary approach to answering these questions, drawing on cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, and philosophy. My research combines theoretical work with empirical studies in adults and children, using computational tools from linguistics and computer science.