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Vita is interested in how we, as imaginative and somewhat rational agents, make this world through our agency. At the moment, she is investigating whether there are norms that guide the use of imagination in deliberative decision-making and what these norms may be. Can we hold our leaders, policy-makers, and even ourselves accountable for failing to imagine a pertinent possibility: a better course of action, an unintended outcome, a surprising turn of events?
In her pre-PhD life, she designed, built, and executed investment strategies in the commodities sector. Her main expertise lies in the analysis and modeling of the U.S. electricity markets and power grid. This experience provided her with an opportunity to make lots of decisions and observe their consequences – the background that informs her understanding of decision theory and philosophical intuitions.
Research Interests
- Decision Theory
- Philosophy of Imagination
- Philosophy of Probability
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Economics