McKenna’s version of non-ideal inquiry epistemology combines pessimism about the epistemic capacities of individuals with certain forms of optimism about the influence of social institutions on our...

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The author and academic explains how an open, questioning mindset can bring people with opposing views closer together – and even change history

Workshop on collective beliefs explores their formation, dynamics, and impacts, including echo chambers, polarization, and group identity effects.

My guest this week is Aidan McGlynn, a senior lecturer in philosophy at University of Edinburgh and author of the book Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction. We discuss the various facets of epistemic ...

Eliana Mary Horn (2026) proposes an account of how we ought to understand prosocial behavior-promoting virtual reality that forms a middle ground between an overly optimistic and overly pessimistic pe...

Abstract. The redundancy theory says that truth predicates make no descriptive contribution to sentences that contain them. The theory has strong initial p

Three days of the latest in social epistemology. In the heart of Vienna.

What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

An agent’s epistemic prospects depend on a combination of that agent’s individual characteristics and features of that agent’s epistemic environment. Such factors cannot always be cleanly separated. O...

The Universities of Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham have been awarded a major £2.6 million Wellcome Discovery Award.

AI sycophancy is the tendency of large language models to prioritize user approval over truth. The sycophantic behavior of LLMs has been documented to cause significant harm, such as feeding users’ .....

Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

The flow of evidence is pervasively impacted by social dynamics. One straightforward illustration of this point is that individuals routinely give evidence to one another. If I want you to believe tha...

Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

Neurons and Machines: Philosophy, Ethics, Policies, and the Law Conference Programme Preview Programme Download Programme Confirmed Invited Speakers: Vincen ...

Philosophy lags behind the social sciences and life sciences in terms of interdisciplinary co-authorship, with 2024 data showing that about one paper in six by philosophers can be classified as int...

College of Arts and HumanitiesSchool of Humanities Research Associate in PhilosophyVacancy Reference: 184814Salary: Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum We have an opportunity for a Research Associ...

Pain is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. Pain research documents cases where our disregard of diverse pain experiences leads to epistemic injustices against those who suffer from pain. Automate...

The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…

Exploring the changing nature of public debate

Speakers make evidentially hedged assertions when they weaken commitment to what they assert in virtue of disclosing imperfectly reliable sources of evidence in their assertions. A novel and increasin...

I develop an inferential account of collective self-knowledge. Starting with the assumption that groups have (at least propositional) attitudes I look at desiderata for any account of collective self-...

I develop an inferential account of collective self-knowledge. Starting with the assumption that groups have (at least propositional) attitudes I look at desiderata for any account of collective self-...

This paper examines the ethical, epistemological, and political implications of persuasive AI technologies. Recent research suggests that AI is roughly as persuasive as humans in many contexts. Should...

AbstractWhat would it be for one person to think with another? How should we understand the idea of people thinking together and so sharing their thinking

What is it to ask a question? We might think about asking a question as the expression of an interrogative attitude towards a question that articulates the speaker’s aim of resolving ...

Philosophers who study conspiracy theories have increasingly addressed the questions of where conspiracy theories come from, what such theories do, and what to do about them. This essay serves as a...