Epistemology
Northwestern has a large and lively community of scholars working in epistemology.
If you have any questions about the program, do not hesitate to contact one of the faculty members listed below. Additional resources can be found on our LEMMings site.
Core Faculty
(Philosophy): epistemic rationality, decision theory, judgment aggregation, probabilistic epistemology
(Philosophy): reliabilism, internalism/externalism, the epistemology of testimony, self-knowledge, semantic responses to skepticism
(Philosophy): the epistemology of testimony, the epistemology of disagreement, norms of assertion, the value of knowledge, and the epistemology of memory
(Philosophy): contextualism
(Philosophy): skepticism, fallibilism, certainty, the Gettier problem, contextualism and invariantism, history of epistemology
Additional Faculty
Faculty with a very strong, secondary interest in epistemology:
(Philosophy): the epistemology of disagreement, the a priori
(Philosophy): Ancient Greek Epistemology, theory of knowledge, the value of knowledge
Stefan Kaufmann
(Linguistics): epistemic modals
Lance Rips
(Psychology): Reasoning, epistemic modals
Sandy Zabell
(Statistics): probabilistic epistemology
Activities and Resources
In addition to courses and graduate seminars, there are a number of other regular activities:
