Yonathan Fiat

I’m a philosophy PhD candidate in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy under the supervision of Roger White. I work mainly in epistemology, especially in connection to the philosophy of science and to decision theory.

I spend most of my time thinking about how what we do affects what we can know. As an easy example, consider randomization: every practitioner knows that the most important feature of clinical trials is to randomize the participants between a test group and a control group. But from a certain perspective, it is a bit puzzling: randomization is something we do, not something we observe.