UofG researchers win prestigious philosophy prize
Published: 26 March 2024
Dr Timothy Kearl and Dr Christopher Willard-Kyle have won the most prestigious worldwide prize in epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge.
Timothy Kearl and Christopher Willard-Kyle of the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow are the winners of the prestigious Young Epistemologist Prize.
Dr Kearl and Dr Willard-Kyle were awarded the prize for their co-authored paper, “Epistemic cans”. The Young Epistemologist Prize is the most prestigious prize in epistemology worldwide and is awarded by Rutgers University. To be eligible to compete for it, a person must have a PhD obtained by the time of the submission of the paper but not earlier than six years prior to the date of the conference.
Dr Kearl is a post doctorate on the European Research Council-funded KnowledgeLab project (PI: Mona Simion), and Dr Willard-Kyle holds the Therme Fellowship in Wellbeing at Cogito (PIs: Mona Simion and Christoph Kelp).
Mona Simion, the Director of the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre, said: "My warmest congratulations to Tim and Chris for this fantastic achievement. The paper is absolutely excellent, very well deserved."
Professor Jo Gill, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Arts & Humanities, said: “Congratulations to our colleagues, Dr Timothy Kearl and Dr Christopher Willard-Kyle, who have won the prestigious Young Epistemologist Prize. This is deserved recognition for the high quality of their research and their excellent contributions to their field of study.”
Glasgow is the only university in the world to host more than one winner of this prestigious prize.
Dr Kearl and Dr Willard-Kyle are the third and forth winners of the Young Epistemology Prize for the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, after Cogito's Directors Professor Christoph Kelp and Professor Mona Simion won it in 2017, and respectively 2021.
You can learn more about Dr Kearl’s work here and about Dr Willard-Kyle’s work here.
First published: 26 March 2024