Welcome!
My name is Oak.1 I do math and philosophy—the two armchair disciplines—at Magdalen College, Oxford. My main interests are in the subfields of philosophy where you see λ-terms: the formal semantics of natural language, as well as higher-order logic and its applications to metaphysics.
This site hosts copies of my philosophy essays (for undergraduate classes) and notes (for graduate seminars). However, you’ll probably be much more interested in the work on my Substack.
Some beautiful non-Oxford places (with fantastic greenery, lighting, & food):
- Longwood Gardens (Chester County, Pennsylvania)
- Tunxi Old Street & Waterfront (Huangshan, China)
- Lighthaven (Berkeley, California)
I’ve pledged to donate 10% of my income—or 1% of spending money, while studying—to wherever it can do the most good. I think you should too!
Please note that this site is under (very sporadic) construction.
Footnotes
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Well, technically, my name is ‘Oak Hu’ (a five-letter string), while I am Oak Hu (the person to whom ‘Oak Hu’ refers); but it’s fine to be sloppy in almost all contexts. My parents named me ‘Oak’ after Oklahoma State University, where they went for graduate school. My last name, ‘Hu’, is from the Chinese 胡; appending 说 (‘speak’) yields 胡说 (‘nonsense’)—naturally, someone named ‘Oak Hu’ does philosophy. ↩