Methodology

This work package develops a knowledge-first methodological approach for social epistemology. Knowledge first frameworks - first proposed in Tim Williamson's 'Knowledge and Its Limits' (2000) - take knowledge as central to epistemological affairs and venture to analyse other epistemic standings in terms of knowledge. KnowledgeLab develops a knowledge-first framework for social epistemological issues, and novel, knowledge-first accounts of the epistemology of testimony, disagreement, groups and the media. It starts the analysis with the epistemic function of our social epistemic interactions - that of generating knowledge - and it identifies the normative structure that is borne out by this function. 

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Special Issues

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• Forthcoming. Synthese Special Issue: Knowledge First Epistemology (with C. Kelp, eds.). 

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• Forthcoming. Philosophical Studies Book Symposium on Jessica Brown's 'Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge' (with A. Carter and C. Kelp).

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• Forthcoming. Philosophical Topics Special Issue: Epistemology (with A. Carter, C. Kelp, and J. Lyons, eds.)

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Articles/ Book Chapters

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• Simion, M. Risk and the Knowledge Norm of Belief. Manuscript.

 

• Simion, M. Expressive Power and the Ethics of Meaning Production. Manuscript.

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• Kelp, C. and Simion, M. She's a She: Sexual Justice Through Linguistic Innovation for Gender Terms. Manuscript.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Knowledge Comes First. In the Justification and Knowledge: Which One First? debate with Aidan McGlynn, Contemporary  Debates in Epistemology, Volume 3 (eds. M. Steup, J. Turri and E. Sosa), Wiley-Blackwell.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Closure, Warrant Transmission, and Defeat. In Epistemic Closure and Transmission, Eds.: Jope M. and Pritchard, D. Routledge.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Scepticism about Epistemic Dilemmas. Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles (eds. K. McCain, S. Stapleford & M. Steup), Routledge.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Conceptual Engineering. Carnap Handbuch, ed. Christian Damböck and Georg Schiemer, Metzler Verlag.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Epistemology. The Cambridge Handbook of Analytic Philosophy (ed. M. Rossberg).

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Defeat. Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (ed. Kurt Sylvan), Wiley-Blackwell.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Engineering Evidence. New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering (eds. M.G. Isaac and K. Scharp), Springer.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Sosa on Permissible Suspension. Book Symposium on Ernest Sosa's 'Epistemic Explanations', OUP 2021, Res Philosophica. 

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Review of Sven Rosenkranz, Justification as Ignorance, OUP 2021. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

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• Kelp, C., Carter, J.A., and Simion M. (2022). How to Be an Infallibilist. Philosophical Studies. Online First. 

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• Simion, M. 2021. Knowledge and Reasoning. Synthese. Online First.

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• Simion, M. 2021. Review of Juan Comesana, Being Rational and Being Right, Oxford University Press 2020. Mind. Online First.