Hi. I'm Robin,¹ a student in philosophy at the University of Oxford. For the last four years, I studied political science, philosophy (BA), mathematics (BS), and computer science (MS) at Stanford University and did research at Brown, Northwestern, and Stanford.² After Oxford, I begin a PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. I'm interested in epistemology and feminist & political philosophy.

My primary research interest is epistemology.³ I am interested in a number of questions in social epistemology and metaepistemology. These include questions about hermeneutical injustices of dilution and monumentalization, the possibility of collective zetetic norms and inquisitive reasons, and, most recently, how moral encroachment can be used to make sense of intuitions regarding sexual consent without engendering agential demotion. I am also interested in questions about sexuality and gender as they arise in feminist and political philosophy. These identities and experiences are at once irreducibly individual and deeply entangled with political conditions. I am writing a book on this paradox, on making sense of trans womanhood and trans lesbians in a world profoundly hostile to both.

I have secondary interests in a diverse range of fields, including ethics, metaethics, combinatorics, graph theory, classical & quantum complexity theory, and social choice theory. I've researched these topics at Stanford, Brown,⁴ and Northwestern, publishing in Discrete Mathematics and Involve.⁵ I am from Seattle. In my own time, I enjoy trans literature, tango, post-punk music, speculative fiction, film photography, and a dozen other things. Contact me at r [at] truax [dot] io, truax [at] berkeley [dot] edu, robin.truax [at] philosophy [dot] ox.ac.uk, or truax [at] cs [dot] stanford [dot] edu as a function of which is most relevant to your query.