RESEARCH
COGITO EPISTEMOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE

@ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

RESEARCH
STREAMS

Focuses on issues on the nature of knowledge and justification and the relation between the two.

Focuses on the social dimensions of knowledge, such as testimony, groups, and disagreement.

Investigates the nature and epistemic normativity of perception.

Investigates the epistemic significance and functions of emotions.

AND LANGUAGE

Investigates issues at the intersection of epistemology and the philosophy of language.

AND VIRTUES

Investigates the broad array of epistemic norms and goals, epistemic virtues and vices.

Knowledge-First Social Epistemology

Develops knowledge-first approaches to testimony, disagreement, groups, media.

Knowledge and Understanding

Develops a novel account of the way knowledge, understanding and evidence relate to each other.

Develops and defends virtue reliabilist accounts of trust and trustworthiness.

Develops a novel, integrated, proper functionalist account of the nature of wellbeing.