I’m Jack VanDrunen. I am an M.Div. student at Westminster Seminary California and under care for ordination in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Previously, I completed a Ph.D. in the department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. In my dissertation, I defend a version of pragmatic subjective Bayesianism I call forward-looking or update-first epistemology.

Before beginning the Ph.D., I earned a bachelor’s (B.S.) in Computer Science, also at UC Irvine. I also did software engineering work and machine learning research at a startup that was building cashierless stores.

My published research thus far has been in evolutionary game theory and human problem solving. In addition to the work listed below, I am engaged in ongoing research projects with my colleague Eyob Zewdie.