University of Edinburgh

Graduate Student, Philosophy

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Thesis Title: The Place of Understanding in Contemporary Epistemology

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2003-2007: MA (Hons.) in Philosophy, First Class, University of Glasgow.

2007-2008: MSc in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh.

2008-2012: PhD in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh.

My PhD thesis is on understanding in epistemology. It seems that the most productive way in which understanding might be successfully explored and accounted for is by (i) comparing its distinctive and necessary traits to those possessed of knowledge, and (ii) concurrently comparing its place in contemporary debates to the place that knowledge has in those debates. I'm summarising understanding's potential significance for a number of these prominent topics, looking at some of the following: epistemic luck, factivity, coherentism, testimony, the transmission of epistemic properties, the nature of cognitive achievement, and epistemic value.

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