RESEARCH
COGITO EPISTEMOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE
@ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
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 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.
RESEARCH
PROJECTS
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.
Explores new ways of combatting online misinformation, 'fake news' and the mistrust of expertise.
A VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TRUST
Develops and defends virtue reliabilist accounts of trust and trustworthiness.
Develops a novel, integrated, proper functionalist account of the nature of wellbeing.
Investigates how our thinking about moral and intellectual autonomy should be revised and expanded to help us make sense of the idea that autonomy itself can be structured in our technological and social networks, to address a range of philosophical and practical problems.
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