I love language, and I love thinking about language (and about a few other things, too). My current research focuses on Ancient grammar—especially Apollonius Dyscolus—and Stoic philosophy—specifically Chrysippus.

As I see it, there can be no question that history—understood as the rational inquiry into the past—is a science. Some object there are no directly observable phenomena in history. Yet has anyone ever seen an electron, say? Some remonstrate that history fails to make any predictions. Yet, again, were that a necessary condition for something’s being a science, relatively well-established disciplines such as evolutionary biology or cosmology would turn out unscientific, too… The truth is, the epistemological status of one’s inferences depends not on the object of study, as is generally assumed, but on the methodology employed.