Stearns is a contemporary philosopher working on the epistemology of logic, particularly the tension between apriorism about logical knowledge and computational or naturalistic accounts of reasoning. Their work engages with foundational questions about how logical truths are known and justified.
Articulated the tension between a priori conceptions of logical knowledge and computational accounts of reasoning
Contributed to contemporary debates in the epistemology of logic
Engaged foundational questions about the justification of logical truths