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\nI am a Senior Research Associate at the <\/span>African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science<\/a>, University of Johannesburg.<\/span><\/p>\n \u200b2024- : <\/strong>N<\/a>icolas Nicola <\/a>(U of T\/Miami) has joined me at BU for a 2-year SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship! His project is titled “Epistemic Blame and the Practice of Blame Avoidance”.\u00a0\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n 2023- :\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>I am a member of the\u00a0Epistemic Reparations Global Working Group<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 2022-2025: <\/strong>I was the principle investigator on a three-year SSHRC Insight Development Grant<\/a> titled “Norms of Epistemic Criticism”. The project examined normative questions about our practice of criticizing one another for epistemic failings.<\/p>\n website\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n 2024. Epistemic Blame: The Nature and Norms of Epistemic Relationships,<\/em> Oxford University Press. (order here<\/a>) (more info and links here<\/a>)<\/p>\n <\/span>2026. Replies\u00a0to Brown, Kauppinen, and Mitova: Book\u00a0<\/span>Symposium on\u00a0<\/span>Epistemic Blame: The Nature and Norms of Epistemic Relationships<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>Inquiry,<\/em>\u00a0Online First<\/span><\/p>\n 2025. Epistemic Relations and Epistemic Reparations, Philosophical Studies<\/em>, <\/i>Online First.<\/p>\n 2025. Group Respect. Inquiry<\/em>, <\/i>Symposium on Jessica Brown\u2019s Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents<\/em>, <\/i>Online First.<\/p>\n 2025. Epistemic Blame and Positive Epistemic Norms: On Ichikawa\u2019s Epistemic Courage.\u00a0International Journal of Philosophical Studies<\/em>, <\/i>Symposium on Jonathan Ichikawa\u2019s Epistemic Courage<\/em>, <\/i>Online First.<\/p>\n 2024. The Relational Foundations of Epistemic Normativity. Philosophical Issues, <\/em>34(1): 285-304<\/p>\n 2024. Epistemic Blame as Relationship Modification: Reply to Smartt. Philosophical Studies,\u00a0<\/em>181: 387-396.<\/p>\n 2024. Degrees of Epistemic Criticizability. The Philosophical Quarterly,\u00a0<\/em>74(2): 431-452.<\/p>\n 2023.\u00a0 Epistemic Complicity, Episteme, <\/em>20(4): 870-893.<\/span><\/p>\n 2023.\u00a0 Access to Collective Epistemic Reasons: Reply to Mitova, Asian Journal of Philosophy,<\/em> 2(60): 1-9. (Article Symposium: The Collective Epistemic Reasons of Social Identity Groups)<\/p>\n 2023. The Significance of Epistemic Blame. Erkenntnis, <\/em>88(2): 807-828.<\/p>\n 2021. Pragmatism, Truth, and Cognitive Agency, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. <\/em>67(6): 1811-1824.<\/p>\n 2021. Epistemic Blame. Philosophy Compass,\u00a0<\/em>16(8):1-12.<\/p>\n 2021. Standing to Epistemically Blame.\u00a0Synthese,<\/em> 199:11355-11375.<\/p>\n 2021. The (Virtue) Epistemology of Political Ignorance, American Philosophical Quarterly,\u00a0<\/em>58(3):217-232.<\/p>\n 2020. There is a Distinctively Epistemic Kind of Blame, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. <\/em>Online First.<\/p>\n 2020. Epistemic Judgment and Motivation, The Philosophical Quarterly<\/em> (with Sebastian K\u00f6hler), 70(281):738-758.<\/span><\/p>\n 2019. Excuses, Exemptions, and Derivative Norms, Ratio,\u00a0<\/em>32(2):150-158.<\/p>\n 2018. An Explanatory Challenge for Epistemological Disjunctivism, Episteme,\u00a0<\/em>15(2):141-153.<\/span><\/p>\n 2017. Hoops and Barns: a New Dilemma for Sosa, Synthese (<\/em>with Kelp, C., Broncano-Berrocal, F., Dimmock, P., Ghijsen, H. & Simion, M.), <\/em>Epub ahead of print\u00a0DOI 10.1007\/s11229-017-1461-5.<\/span><\/p>\n 2017. Categorical Norms and Convention-Relativism About Epistemic Discourse, dialectica,\u00a0<\/em>71(1): 85-99.<\/span><\/p>\n 2017. Epistemic Normativity and the Justification-Excuse Distinction, Synthese,\u00a0<\/em>194(10): 4065-4081.<\/span><\/p>\n 2017. Knowledge and Attributability, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly,<\/em> 98(1): 329-350.<\/span><\/p>\n 2017. Epistemic Conditions on \u201cOught\u201d: E=K as a Case Study, Acta Analytica,\u00a0<\/em>32(<\/span>2):\u00a0223\u2013244.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 2016. Excusing Prospective Agents, Logos & Episteme,\u00a0<\/em>7(2):119-128.<\/span><\/p>\n 2013. Epistemic Principles and Sceptical Arguments: Closure and Underdetermination, Philosophia,\u00a0<\/em>41 (4):1125-1133.<\/span><\/p>\n 2013. Wittgensteinian Anti-Scepticism and Epistemic Vertigo, Philosophia<\/em> (with Duncan Pritchard), 41(1):27-35.<\/span><\/p>\n 2021. The Epistemic Responsibilities of Citizens in a Democracy, in The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology<\/em>, Hannon, M. & DeRidder, J. (eds.), Routledge.<\/p>\n 2020. Epistemic Virtues and Virtues with Epistemic Content, in Virtue Theoretic Epistemology: New Methods and Approaches<\/em> (with Kelp, C., Simion, M. and Schnurr, J.), Greco, J. & Kelp, C. (eds.), Cambridge University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n 2026. Epistemology and the Interpersonal \u2013 New Directions, Special Issue of International Journal of Philosophical Studies <\/i>(co-edited with Amy Flowerree) (forthcoming)<\/p>\n 2019. Review of The Brain in a Vat\u00a0<\/em>(Goldberg, S. (ed.), Cambridge University Press),\u00a0International Journal for the Study of Skepticism,\u00a0<\/em>9(1): 75-82.<\/p>\n 2017. Review of Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue<\/em> (Fairweather, A. & Flanagan, O. (eds.), Cambridge University Press),\u00a0<\/em>Journal of Moral Philosophy,\u00a0<\/em>14(5): 604-607.<\/p>\n 2027: TBA, Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical, University of Zurich (Feb)<\/p>\n Book Symposium on\u00a0<\/span>Epistemic Blame: The Nature and Norms of Epistemic Relationships<\/em>, Commentators: Sandy Goldberg, Allan Hazlett, and Roman Heil; Chair: Hannah Tierney,\u00a0Pacific APA (Online) (Apr)<\/span><\/p>\n TBA, Collective Ethics Seminar, University of Vienna (Online) (Jun)<\/p>\n TBA, Information Segregation Workshop, ACEPS, U of Johannesburg (Jun)<\/p>\n “A New Approach to Epistemic Contractualism”, ACEPS Work in Progress Workshop, U of Johannesburg<\/p>\n “Epistemic Relations and Epistemic Reparations”, 4th Social Epistemology Network Meeting, Georgetown University (paper accepted; could not attend)<\/p>\n “Epistemic Reparations and the Politics of Recognition”, International Philosophy Conference: Epistemology and More, University of Nairobi<\/p>\n “Relation-Based Epistemology”, Trust and Information Workshop, Sitges, Barcelona<\/span><\/p>\n “The Right to Be Known as a Nation”, Bearing Witness: Citizens and the Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa, U of Johannesburg<\/p>\n “The Right to Be Known as a Nation”, <\/i>Carceral Injustice and The Right to Be Known, <\/i>Northwestern University and Sheridan Correctional Facility, Chicago, IL<\/p>\n “Relation-Based Epistemology”, <\/i>2025 Bled Philosophical Conference, Bled, Slovenia<\/p>\n “Relation-Based Epistemology”, <\/i>Nordic Epistemology Network Meeting, University of Oslo<\/p>\n “TBA”, ZEGRa Epistemology Group on Rationality – Research Colloquium, University of Zurich<\/p>\n “The Relational Foundations of Epistemic Normativity”, Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference, U Penn – Philadelphia, PA<\/p>\n “Relation-Based Epistemology”, Epistemic Accountability Workshop, University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney<\/p>\n “Epistemic Reparations and Our Relations as Knowers”, Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known in Post-Apartheid South Africa, ACEPS and Hector Pieterson Community Centre – Soweto, Johannesburg<\/p>\n “Group Responsibility Without Motivation: Reply to Brown”, Symposium on Jessica Brown’s Groups as <\/em>Epistemic and Moral Agents<\/em>, COGITO, University of Glasgow<\/p>\n “The Relational Foundations of Epistemic Normativity”, Philosophy Senior Seminar, University of Glasgow<\/p>\n “Epistemic Reparations and Our Relations as Knowers”, Epistemic Reparations and Carceral Justice Workshop, Northwestern University and Stateville Correctional Centre, IL<\/p>\n “The Relational Foundations of Epistemic Normativity”, Invited Session: The Epistemic and the Interpersonal, Central APA, New Orleans, LA<\/p>\n “Epistemic Complicity”, 18th Episteme Conference, Stone Town, Zanzibar<\/p>\n Invited comments on “The Agent-Directed Account of Epistemic Blame”, Colloquium Session Pacific APA, San Fransisco, CA\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Epistemic Blame and Social Power”, Epistemic Wrongs and Epistemic Reparations Workshop, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg<\/p>\n “Degrees of Epistemic Criticizability”, Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Winnipeg, MB<\/p>\n “Degrees of Epistemic Criticizability”, European Epistemology Network Meeting, University of Glasgow<\/p>\n “The Puzzle of Epistemic Blame”, Responsibility for Beliefs Workshop, University of Helsinki<\/p>\n Invited comments on “The Quality of Thought”, Colloquium Session Pacific APA, Vancouver, BC<\/p>\n “Epistemic Criticism and Epistemic Risk”, The Social and Political Dimensions of Epistemic Risk, University of Seville<\/p>\n “Norms of Epistemic Criticism”, Epistemic Blame: Theory and Practice Workshop, University of Johannesburg<\/p>\n Invited comments on Eugene Chislenko’s “Blame as Attention”, Symposium Session, Central APA, Chicago, Il.<\/p>\n Book symposium on “The Puzzle of Epistemic Blame”, COGITO Centre for Epistemology, University of Glasgow<\/p>\n “Democratic Participation and the Value of Epistemic Blame”, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Philosophy – Epistemic Responsibilities of Democratic Citizens, University of Manchester September<\/p>\n “TBA”, European Epistemology Network Meeting, University of Glasgow [CANCELLED]<\/span><\/p>\n “A Relationship-Based Account of Epistemic Blame”, Brown Bag Meetings, CONCEPT Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition, University of Cologne January<\/span><\/p>\nResearch<\/h2>\n
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