The Puzzle of Knowledge, Trust and Risk (Leverhulme Trust Fellowship):
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Under review
- My current research project focuses on a puzzle that arises out of reflection on the concepts of testimonial knowledge, interpersonal trust and epistemic risk. How can it be that much of our knowledge depends on trusting the word of others if trust essentially involves risk and risk undermines knowledge? The project brings together several fields of research, showing that common assumptions about the nature of testimony, trust and risk are jointly inconsistent, arguing that solving the puzzle requires embracing a pluralist account of risk and a radically anti-individualist account of the nature and value of epistemic trust.
Articles:
- (forthcoming) ‘Understanding Friendship', in Philosophical Issues, co-authored with Michel Croce.
- (2022) ‘Intuitive Closure, Transmission and Doxastic Justification,’ in New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure.
- (2021) 'Trust and Confidence: A Dilemma for Epistemic Entitlement Theory,' Erkenntnis.
- (2021) 'The Symmetry Problem for Testimonial Conservatism,' Synthese.
- (2021) 'On the Alleged Instability of Externalist Anti-Skepticism,' The Journal of Philosophy.
Awards:
- Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. 2022 - 2025.
- Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellowship. 2016 - 2019.
Edited collections:
- (2022) New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure. Co-edited with Duncan Pritchard.
Under review
- An article on failure of transmission of warrant across inference