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Literature & Philosophy

This cluster specialises in continental philosophy and in critical and literary theory; among its strengths are poststructuralism, psychoanalysis and Marxism.

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Publications

2026

2025

Hutchinson, E., Gabriel, G., Fouchier, R., Simion, M., Maasen, S. (2025) Transdisciplinary Approaches for Pandemic Preparedness.

Carter, J. A., Willard-Kyle, C. (2025) Virtue epistemology for the zetetic turn. Mind, (doi: 10.1093/mind/fzaf028)

Kearl, T. R., Carter, J. A. (2025) Easy practical knowledge. Journal of Philosophy, (doi: 10.5840/jphil202510314)

Simion, M. (2025) Introduction. Philosophical Quarterly, 75, pp. 1. (doi: 10.1093/pq/pqaf096)

Simion, M. (2025) Engineering evidence. Springer

Dick, M.-D. (2025) Joycean Minimalism, Derridean Maximalism. Edinburgh University Press

Simion, M., Adekola, J. (2025) The infodemic, epistemic exclusion in science communication, and distrust in scientific expertise. Routledge

Simion, M., Kelp, C., Pettigrove, G. (2025) Group evidence, group belief, and group responsibility transmission. Routledge

Kelp, C., Mace, L., Simion, M. (2025) Inquiry and normative defeat. Taylor & Francis

Kelp, C., Simion, M. (2025) A social epistemology of assertion. Oxford University Press

Carter, J. A., Kelp, C., Simion, M. (2025) Brown on group evidence, group justification, and group responsibility. Inquiry, (doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2025.2524701)

Carter, J. A., Navarro, J. (2025) Fake knowledge-how. Philosophical Quarterly, 75, pp. 900-920. (doi: 10.1093/pq/pqae049)

Kelp, C., Simion, M. (2025) What is information? Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 99, pp. 189-208. (doi: 10.1093/arisup/akaf008)

Carter, J. A., Piedrahita, O. A. (2025) Ignorance and autonomous belief. Australasian Journal of Philosophy,

Kelp, C., Simion, M. (2025) Trustworthy AI: responses to commentators. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 4, (doi: 10.1007/s44204-024-00229-9)

Carter, J. A. (2025) A virtue theoretic approach to practical knowledge. Oxford University Press

Simion, M. (2025) McKenna on non-ideal epistemology. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, (doi: 10.1080/09672559.2025.2482907)

Simion, M. (2025) Knowledge-First Epistemology: A Defence. Cambridge University Press

Andrada, G., Carter, J. A. (2025) Mind-technology problems for know-how anti-intellectualism. Social Epistemology, (doi: 10.1080/02691728.2025.2463059)

Adekola, J., Bott, H., Carter, J. A., Davies, J., Hughes, J., Hutchinson, E., Ho, A., Hosie, M., Kelly, J., Kelp, C., Lavery, J., Mason, L., Noerenberg, M., Olmo, P., Owen, L., Robertson, D., Simion, M., Smith, C., Shergold, A., Summers, L., Szemiel, A. (2025) Countering Pragmatic Mechanisms for Spreading Disinformation and Distrust in Expertise and Institutions. For UK Parliament Call for Evidence: Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy.

Pickel, B., Carter, J. A. (2025) Frege on the tolerability of sense variation: a reply to Michaelson and Textor. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 103, pp. 1118-1125. (doi: 10.1080/00048402.2025.2482823)

2024

Simion, M. (2024) Disinformation, politically motivated reasoning, and knowledge resistance. European Review, (doi: 10.1017/S1062798724000218)

Simion, M. (2024) Knowledge and disinformation. Episteme, 21, pp. 1208-1219. (doi: 10.1017/epi.2023.25)

Simion, M., Broncano-Berrocal, F. (2024) Knowledge and disagreement. Routledge

(2024) Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement. (doi: 10.4324/9781003154471)

Mace, L., Simion, M. (2024) What is reasonable doubt? For philosophical studies special issue on Sosa’s ‘epistemic explanations’ Philosophical Studies, (doi: 10.1007/s11098-024-02247-y)

Carter, J. A. (2024) Knowledge norms and conversation. Springer

Simion, M., Kelp, C. (2024) Aesthetic disagreement, aesthetic testimony, and defeat. Springer

Ichikawa, J., Sosa, E., Carter, J. A. (2024) Intuitions. Oxford University Press

Simion, M. (2024) Naturalised epistemic oughts. Wiley Blackwell

Simion, M. (2024) Epistemic oughts of attention. Routledge

Kolocotroni, V. (2024) “Doing one’s own little share”: Weaponising smallness in Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s A Daughter of the Klephts, or a Girl of Modern Greece. Routledge

Carter, J. A., Kearl, T. (2024) Knowing How and Learning How: An Epistemic Theory of Control. Cambridge University Press

Carter, J. A. (2024) Abduction, skepticism, and indirect realism. Philosophical Studies, (doi: 10.1007/s11098-024-02206-7)

Carter, J. A., Andrada, G. (2024) Intentional action, knowledge, and cognitive extension. Synthese, 204, (doi: 10.1007/s11229-024-04691-z)

Duprat, A., Currie, M., During, E., Vlacos, S., Carrard, P. (2024) Chance, causality, temporality. Routledge

Kolocotroni, V. (2024) Edward Masson, Caledonian witness to the fortunes of modern Greece. Edinburgh University Press

Titus, L. M., Carter, J. A. (2024) What the tortoise should do: a knowledge‐first virtue approach to the basing relation. Noûs, 58, pp. 456-481. (doi: 10.1111/nous.12460)

Carter, J. A., Cowan, R. (2024) Safety and dream scepticism in Sosa’s epistemology. Synthese, 203, (doi: 10.1007/s11229-024-04577-0)

Carter, J. A. (2024) A Telic Theory of Trust. Oxford University Press

Carter, J. A. (2024) Epistemic normativity is not independent of our goals. Wiley-Blackwell

Simion, M. (2024) Knowledge comes first. Wiley-Blackwell

Simion, M. (2024) Knowledge still comes first. Wiley-Blackwell

Kolocotroni, V. (2024) The porous and the partisan: modernist continentality and the red thread. Johns Hopkins University Press

Piedrahita, O., Carter, J. A. (2024) Can AI believe? Philosophy and Technology, 37, (doi: 10.1007/s13347-024-00780-6)

Simion, M. (2024) Resistance to Evidence. Cambridge University Press

Simion, M. (2024) Tanesini on truth and epistemic vice. Inquiry, 67, pp. 762-768. (doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2023.2167233)

Carter, J. A. (2024) Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation. Routledge

Simion, M. (2024) Resistance to evidence and the duty to believe. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 108, pp. 203-216. (doi: 10.1111/phpr.12964)

Carter, J. A. (2024) Therapeutic trust. Philosophical Psychology, 37, pp. 38-61. (doi: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2058925)

Simion, M., Willard-Kyle, C. (2024) Trust, trustworthiness, and obligation. Philosophical Psychology, 37, pp. 87-101. (doi: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2223221)

Simion, M. (2024) Two dilemmas for value sensitive technological design. Routledge

2023

Carter, J. A. (2023) Trust and trustworthiness. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 107, pp. 377-394. (doi: 10.1111/phpr.12918)

Kelp, C., Simion, M. (2023) What is trustworthiness? Noûs, 57, pp. 667-683. (doi: 10.1111/nous.12448)

Carter, J. A. (2023) Understanding, vulnerability and risk. De Gruyter

Simion, M., Kelp, C. (2023) Linguistic innovation for gender terms. Inquiry, (doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2023.2222155)

Carter, J. A. (2023) Simion and Kelp on trustworthy AI. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2, (doi: 10.1007/s44204-023-00067-1)

Simion, M., Kelp, C. (2023) Trustworthy artificial intelligence. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2, (doi: 10.1007/s44204-023-00063-5)

Kolocotroni, V. (2023) Michelle Zerba, Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 241. Cloth $99.95. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 41, pp. 154-157. (doi: 10.1353/mgs.2023.0010)

Shepherd, J., Carter, J. A. (2023) Knowledge, practical knowledge, and intentional action. Ergo, 9, pp. 556-583. (doi: 10.3998/ergo.2277)

Carter, J. A., Rupert, R. D. (2023) Epistemology in the Subpersonal Vale. Oxford University Press

(2023) Hotel Modernisms. (doi: 10.4324/9781003213079)

Kolocotroni, V. (2023) Hotel Trouble. Routledge

Carter, J. A., Shepherd, J. (2023) Intentional action and knowledge-centred theories of control. Philosophical Studies, 180, pp. 957-977. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-022-01904-4)

Carter, J. A. (2023) Analysis of knowledge. Wiley

Carter, J. A., Meehan, D. (2023) Trust, distrust, and testimonial injustice. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55, pp. 290-300. (doi: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2037418)

(2023) Journal of Greek Media and Culture 9(1) Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 9,

(2023) Special Issue: Knowledge-First Epistemology. Synthese,

2022

Carter, J. A. (2022) Stratified Virtue Epistemology: A Defence. Cambridge University Press

Kolocotroni, V. (2022) "The taste of things inconceivable": Spark, Proust and the Sacramental Way. Sacristy Press

Carter, J. A. (2022) On some intracranialist dogmas in epistemology. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 1, (doi: 10.1007/s44204-022-00045-z)

Simion, M. (2022) The epistemic normativity of conjecture. Philosophical Studies, 179, pp. 3447-3471. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-022-01829-y)

Solomos, M., Thomopoulos, S., Kolocotroni, V., Papargyriou, E. (2022) Iannis Xenakis 2022: a discussion of his life and legacy on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 8, pp. 271-281. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc_00064_7)

Simion, M. (2022) Sosa on permissible suspension and the proper remit of the theory of knowledge. Res Philosophica, 99, pp. 453-466. (doi: 10.11612/resphil.2138)

Simion, M. (2022) The Epistemology of Groups. Philosophical Review, 131, pp. 537-541. (doi: 10.1215/00318108-10136960)

Carter, J. A. (2022) Trust as performance. Philosophical Issues, 32, pp. 120-147. (doi: 10.1111/phis.12214)

Simion, M. (2022) Closure, warrant transmission, and defeat. Routledge

Kelp, C., Carter, A., Simion, M. (2022) How to be an infallibilist. Philosophical Studies, 179, pp. 2675-2682. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-022-01785-7)

(2022) Special Issue (Book Symposium) on Jessica Brown's Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge. Philosophical Studies, 179,

Carter, J. A. (2022) Reply to Gardiner on virtues of attention. Routledge

Carter, J. A. (2022) Reply to Watson on the social virtue of questioning. Routledge

Carter, J. A. (2022) Reply to critics: collective (telic) virtue epistemology. Routledge

Carter, J. A. (2022) Collective (telic) virtue epistemology. Routledge

Simion, M. (2022) Being Rational and Being Right, By Juan Comesaña. Mind, 131, pp. 1005-1015. (doi: 10.1093/mind/fzab010)

Carter, J. A., Koch, A.-K. (2022) Epistemic pluralism. Palgrave Macmillan

Simion, M., Carter, J. A., Kelp, C. (2022) On behalf of knowledge-first collective epistemology. Routledge

Carter, J. A. (2022) Epistemic Values: Collected Papers in Epistemology. Philosophical Review, 131, pp. 235-240. (doi: 10.1215/00318108-9554769)

Vlacos, S. (2022) Paul Ricoeur and the limits of critique. Kritika & Kontext

Simion, M. (2022) Justification as Ignorance: An Essay in Epistemology. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,

Miracchi, L., Carter, J. A. (2022) Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory. Synthese, 200, pp. 1-28. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03462-y)

Carter, J. A. (2022) Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing. Oxford University Press

Simion, M. (2022) Conceptual engineering for epistemic norms. Inquiry, (doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2018.1562373)

Simion, M. (2022) Defeat. Wiley-Blackwell

Carter, J. A., Sosa, E. (2022) Metaepistemology. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,

Simion, M. (2022) Trusting AI: explainability vs. trustworthiness. Oxford University Press

2021

Carter, J. A. (2021) Varieties of (extended) thought manipulation. Palgrave Macmillan

Simion, M. (2021) Blame as performance. Synthese, 199, pp. 7595-7614. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-021-03130-7)

Broncano-Berrocal, F., Simion, M. (2021) Disagreement and epistemic improvement. Synthese, 199, pp. 14641-14665. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-021-03437-5)

Simion, M. (2021) Knowledge and reasoning. Synthese, 199, pp. 10371-10388. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-021-03251-z)

Alfano, M., Fard, A. E., Carter, J. A., Clutton, P., Klein, C. (2021) Technologically scaffolded atypical cognition: the case of YouTube’s recommender system. Synthese, 199, pp. 835-858. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-020-02724-x)

Simion, M. (2021) Testimonial contractarianism: a knowledge-first social epistemology. Noûs, 55, pp. 891-916. (doi: 10.1111/nous.12337)

Carter, J. A., Gordon, E., Grodniewicz, J.P. (2021) Understanding a communicated thought. Synthese, 198, pp. 12137-12151. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-020-02854-2)

Kolocotroni, V. (2021) Rethinking the modernist moment: crisis, (im)potentiality and E. M. Forster’s failed kairos Bloomsbury

Carter, J. A. (2021) Archimedean metanorms. Topoi, 40, pp. 1075-1085. (doi: 10.1007/s11245-018-9586-9)

Kelp, C., Simion, M. (2021) Sharing Knowledge: a Functionalist Account of Assertion. Cambridge University Press

Carter, J. A. (2021) Collateral conflicts and epistemic norms. Routledge

Simion, M. (2021) Skepticism about epistemic dilemmas. Routledge

Carter, J. A., McKenna, R. (2021) Absolutism, relativism and metaepistemology. Erkenntnis, 86, pp. 1139-1159. (doi: 10.1007/s10670-019-00147-w)

Simion, M. (2021) Conversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges. Philosophical Quarterly, 71, pp. pqaa075. (doi: 10.1093/pq/pqaa075)

Carter, J. A., Rupert, R. D. (2021) Epistemic value in the subpersonal vale. Synthese, 198, pp. 9243-9272. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-020-02631-1)

(2021) Epistemology. Philosophical Topics, 49,

Carter, J. A. (2021) Epistemic autonomy and externalism. Routledge

Simion, M. (2021) Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Philosophical Quarterly, 71, pp. 681-684. (doi: 10.1093/pq/pqaa048)

Simion, M. I., Schnurr, J., Gordon, E. C. (2021) Epistemic norms, closure, and no-Belief hinge epistemology. Synthese, 198, pp. 3553-3564. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02165-1)

Carter, J. A., Dechauffour, G., Lefftz, G. (2021) Introduction to Special Issue: Scepticism and Epistemic Angst. Synthese, 198, pp. 3517-3519. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-021-03241-1)

(2021) Special Issue on Skepticism and Epistemic Angst. Synthese, 198,

Simion, M. (2021) Assertion compatibilism. Routledge

Kotzee, B., Carter, J. A., Siegel, H. (2021) Educating for intellectual virtue: a critique from action guidance. Episteme, 18, pp. 177-199. (doi: 10.1017/epi.2019.10)

Kolocotroni, V. (2021) Cavafy among the modernists. boundary 2, 48, pp. 59-87. (doi: 10.1215/01903659-8936684)

Littlejohn, C., Carter, J. A. (2021) This is Epistemology: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell

Simion, M. (2021) Shifty Speech and Independent Thought: Epistemic Normativity in Context. Oxford University Press

(2021) Reasons, Justification, and Defeat. (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198847205.001.0001)

Carter, J. A. (2021) Politics, deep disagreement, and relativism. Routledge

Carter, J. A. (2021) Exercising abilities. Synthese, 198, pp. 2495-2509. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02227-4)

Broncano-Berrocal, F., Carter, J. A. (2021) The Philosophy of Group Polarization: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Psychology. Routledge

Carter, J. A. (2021) De Minimis Normativism: a new theory of full aptness. Philosophical Quarterly, 71, pp. 16-36. (doi: 10.1093/pq/pqaa017)

(2021) 1821: Mediation, Reception, Archive. 7,

Kolocotroni, V., Papargyriou, E. (2021) 2021: Spectres of commemorations past. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 7, pp. 143-152. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc_00043_7)

Brown, J., Simion, M. (2021) Introduction. Oxford University Press

2020

Simion, M., Kelp, C. (2020) Conceptual innovation, function first. Noûs, 54, pp. 985-1002. (doi: 10.1111/nous.12302)

Kelp, C., Boult, C., Broncano-Berrocal, F., Dimmock, P., Ghijsen, H., Simion, M. (2020) Hoops and Barns: a new dilemma for Sosa. Synthese, 197, pp. 5187-5202. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-017-1461-5)

Carter, J. A. (2020) Sosa on knowledge, judgment and guessing. Synthese, 197, pp. 5117-5136. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-016-1181-2)

Carter, J. A., Kallestrup, J. (2020) Varieties of cognitive integration. Noûs, 54, pp. 867-890. (doi: 10.1111/nous.12288)

(2020) The Epistemology of Group Disagreement.

Broncano-Berrocal, F., Carter, J. A. (2020) Deliberation and group disagreement. Routledge

Miragoli, M., Simion, M. (2020) Gender, race, and group disagreement. Routledge

Broncano-Berrocal, F., Carter, J. A. (2020) The epistemology of group disagreement: an introduction. Routledge

Simion, M. (2020) A priori perceptual entitlement, knowledge-first. Philosophical Issues, 30, pp. 311-323. (doi: 10.1111/phis.12187)

Kolocotroni, V. (2020) Hickman (M.), Kozak (L.) (edd.) The Classics in Modernist Translation. Pp. xvii + 264, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-350-04095-3. Classical Review, 70, pp. 516-518. (doi: 10.1017/S0009840X2000044X)

Carter, J. A. (2020) Trust and its significance in social epistemology. Oxford University Press

Carter, J. A. (2020) On behalf of a bi-level account of trust. Philosophical Studies, 177, pp. 2299-2322. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-019-01311-2)

Carter, J. A., McKenna, R. (2020) Skepticism motivated: on the skeptical import of motivated reasoning. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 50, pp. 702-718. (doi: 10.1017/can.2020.16)

Heersmink, R., Carter, J. A. (2020) The philosophy of memory technologies: metaphysics, knowledge, and values. Memory Studies, 13, pp. 416-433. (doi: 10.1177/1750698017703810)

Carter, J. A., Gordon, E. C. (2020) Intellectual humility and assertion. Routledge

Boult, C., Kelp, C., Schnurr, J., Simion, M. (2020) Epistemic virtues and virtues with epistemic content. Cambridge University Press

Simion, M., Kelp, C. (2020) How to be an anti-reductionist. Synthese, 197, pp. 2849-2866. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1722-y)

Carter, J. A. (2020) Intellectual autonomy, epistemic dependence and cognitive enhancement. Synthese, 197, pp. 2937-2961. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-017-1549-y)

Carter, J. A., Gordon, E. (2020) Is searching the internet making us intellectually arrogant? Routledge

Carter, J. A., Mi, C., Palermos, S. O., Pritchard, D. (2020) Introduction to special issue: knowledge, virtue and action—eastern and western perspectives. Synthese, 197, pp. 2291-2294. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-020-02662-8)

(2020) Special Issue of Synthese: Knowledge, Virtue and Action: Eastern and Western Perspectives [Guest Editors] Synthese, 197,

Simion, M., Kelp, C. (2020) Assertion: the constitutive norms view. Oxford University Press

Carter, J. A. (2020) Epistemic perceptualism, skill and the regress problem. Philosophical Studies, 177, pp. 1229-1254. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-019-01243-x)

Kolocotroni, V. (2020) Jean Rhys’s comédie anglaise Edinburgh University Press

Dick, M.-D. (2020) We have never been theoretical: Scottish literature, in theory. Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 9, pp. 65-83.

Cowan, R., Simion, M. (2020) Editorial. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 23, pp. 1-3. (doi: 10.1007/s10677-020-10072-5)

Carter, J. A., Mortini, D. (2020) Higher-order defeat in collective moral epistemology. Routledge

Simion, M. (2020) Social epistemology of education. Springer

Kelp, C., Simion, M. (2020) The C account of assertion: a negative result. Synthese, 197, pp. 125-137. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1760-5)

Dick, M.-D., McLaughlan, R. (2020) (Psycho)Social media. Palgrave Macmillan

Dick, M.-D., McLaughlan, R. (2020) A politics of Freud. Palgrave Macmillan

Dick, M.-D., McLaughlan, R. (2020) Bodily economies. Palgrave Macmillan

Dick, M.-D., McLaughlan, R. (2020) Conclusion: Death drive ecologies. Palgrave Macmillan

Dick, M.-D., McLaughlan, R. (2020) Culture in the age of death drive. Palgrave Macmillan

(2020) Ethics, Knowledge and Language: Selected Papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Society for Ethical Theory 2019. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 23,

Dick, M.-D., McLaughlan, R. (2020) Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan

Dick, M.-D., McLaughlan, R. (2020) Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan

Carter, J. A., Simion, M. (2020) The ethics and epistemology of trust. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,

2019

Bondy, P., Carter, J. A. (2019) The superstitious lawyer's inference. Routledge

Bondy, P., Carter, J. A. (2019) Well-founded belief: an introduction. Routledge

Carter, J. A., McKenna, R. (2019) Relativism and externalism. Routledge

Carter, J. A., Pritchard, D., Shepherd, J. (2019) Knowledge-how, understanding-why, and epistemic luck: an experimental study. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 10, pp. 701-734. (doi: 10.1007/s13164-018-0429-9)

Carter, J. A., McKenna, R. (2019) Kornblith versus Sosa on grades of knowledge. Synthese, 196, pp. 4989-5007. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1689-8)

Kolocotroni, V. (2019) Destruction preservation, or the edifying ruin in Benjamin and Brecht. Palgrave Macmillan

Simion, M. (2019) A puzzle for epistemic WAMs. Synthese, 196, pp. 4679-4689. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1681-3)

Carter, J. A., Meehan, D. (2019) Vices of distrust. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 8, pp. 25-32.

Simion, M. (2019) Knowledge‐first functionalism. Philosophical Issues, 29, pp. 254-267. (doi: 10.1111/phis.12152)

Simion, M. (2019) Saying and believing: the norm commonality assumption. Philosophical Studies, 176, pp. 1951-1966. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-018-1105-8)

Carter, J. A. (2019) Radical scepticism and the epistemology of confusion. International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 9, pp. 223-237. (doi: 10.1163/22105700-20191387)

Carter, J. A. (2019) Autonomy, cognitive offloading and education. Educational Theory, 68, pp. 657-673. (doi: 10.1111/edth.12338)

Simion, M. (2019) Epistemic norm correspondence and the belief-assertion parallel. Analysis, 79, pp. 260-265. (doi: 10.1093/analys/any048)

Vlacos, S. (2019) Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations [Co-editor] Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations,

Carter, J. A., Pritchard, D. (2019) The epistemology of cognitive enhancement. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 44, pp. 220-242. (doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhy040)

Vlacos, S. (2019) Responsible individualism and mauvaise foi in middlemarch and freedom. Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 22, pp. 171-195.

Kolocotroni, V. (2019) The 'Perpetual Immunity' of the word: Joyce and World Peace. University Press of Florida

Carter, J. A. (2019) Epistemic luck and the extended mind. Routledge

Kolocotroni, V. (2019) Nicolas Calas. Bloomsbury Publishing

Gair, C., Vlacos, S. (2019) From Poe to Post-Postmodernism: Symbiosis, 1997–2018. Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 22, pp. 125-145.

Dick, M.-D., Lusk, K., Maley, W. (2019) "The Agitator’s Wife" (1894): the story behind James Connolly’s lost play? Irish Studies Review, 27, pp. 1-21. (doi: 10.1080/09670882.2018.1558473)

Simion, M. (2019) Assertion: the context shiftiness dilemma. Mind and Language, 34, pp. 503-517. (doi: 10.1111/mila.12221)

Simion, M. (2019) Hermeneutical injustice as basing failure. Routledge

Vlacos, S. (2019) Realisms. Routledge

Carter, J. A. (2019) Virtue perspectivism, externalism, and epistemic circularity. Springer

(2019) Well-Founded Belief: New Essays on the Epistemic Basing Relation.

2018

Carter, J. A., Pritchard, D. (2018) Extended self-knowledge. Springer

Carter, J. A. (2018) On behalf of controversial view agnosticism. European Journal of Philosophy, 26, pp. 1358-1370. (doi: 10.1111/ejop.12333)

Dick, M.-D. (2018) James Joyce section 2c XV Modern Literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 97, pp. 1020-1036. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/may015)

Papanikolaou, D., Kolocotroni, V. (2018) New queer Greece: performance, politics and identity in crisis. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4, pp. 143-150. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc.4.2.143_2)

Athanasiou, A., Kolocotroni, V., Papanikolaou, D. (2018) On the politics of queer resistance and survival: Athena Athanasiou in conversation with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Dimitris Papanikolaou. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4, pp. 269-280. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc.4.2.269_7)

Kolocotroni, V., Papanikolaou, D. (2018) New Queer Greece [Guest Editors] Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4,

(2018) Socially Extended Epistemology.

Carter, J. A. (2018) Meta-epistemic defeat. Synthese, 195, pp. 2877-2896. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-016-1187-9)

Simion, M. (2018) No epistemic norm for action. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55, pp. 231-238.

Carter, J. A. (2018) Cognitive goods, open futures and the epistemology of education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54, pp. 449-466-449-466. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12420)

Simion, M. (2018) The explanation proffering norm of moral assertion. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21, pp. 477-488. (doi: 10.1007/s10677-018-9922-6)

Carter, J. A., McDonnell, N. (2018) Welcome to the machine. Philosophers' Magazine, 81, pp. 33-39. (doi: 10.5840/tpm20188144)

Carter, J. A., Kallestrup, J. (2018) Extended circularity: a new puzzle for extended cognition. Oxford University Press

Carter, J. A., Clark, A., Palermos, S. O. (2018) New humans? Ethics, trust, and the extended mind. Oxford University Press

(2018) Extended Epistemology.

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) The instant of their debt: Derrida with Freud and Heidegger in Greece. Cambridge University Press

Carter, J. A. (2018) Virtue epistemology, enhancement, and control. Metaphilosophy, 49, pp. 283-304. (doi: 10.1111/meta.12304)

Pritchard, D., Carter, J. A., Turri, J. (2018) The value of knowledge. Stanford University

Simion, M. (2018) Epistemic trouble for engineering ‘woman' Logos and Episteme, 9, pp. 91-98.

Carter, J. A., Poston, T. (2018) A Critical Introduction to Knowledge-How. Bloomsbury

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Orlando, Greece and the impossible landscape. Edinburgh University Press

Vlacos, S. (2018) Habit. Edinburgh University Press

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Hellenism. Edinburgh University Press

Vlacos, S. (2018) Late modernism. Edinburgh University Press

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Modernism. Edinburgh University Press

Vlacos, S. (2018) New criticism. Edinburgh University Press

Vlacos, S. (2018) Realism. Edinburgh University Press

(2018) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism.

Maley, W., Kolocotroni, V., Greig, D. (2018) David Greig – Spark at play: a dialogue with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Willy Maley. Textual Practice, 32, pp. 1677-1680. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533173)

Dick, M.-D. (2018) Ephiphany. Edinburgh University Press

Dick, M.-D. (2018) Exile. Edinburgh University Press

Dick, M.-D. (2018) Interior monologue. Edinburgh University Press

Maley, W., Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Introduction: Prime Spark. Textual Practice, 32, pp. 1485-1493. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533170)

Dick, M.-D. (2018) Modern Literature. James Joyce’ section 2c XV. Year's Work in English Studies, 97, pp. 889-1030. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/may015)

Dick, M.-D. (2018) Stream of consciousness. Edinburgh University Press

Alfano, M., Carter, J. A., Cheong, M. (2018) Technological seduction and self-radicalization. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4, pp. 298-322. (doi: 10.1017/apa.2018.27)

Simion, M. (2018) The 'should' in conceptual engineering. Inquiry, 61, pp. 914-928. (doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2017.1392894)

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) The Driver’s Seat: undoing character, becoming legend. Textual Practice, 32, pp. 1545-1562. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533180)

Maley, W., Kolocotroni, V. (2018) The Prime of Muriel Spark: a Centenary Retrospect [Guest Editors] Textual Practice, 32,

Bondy, P., Carter, J. A. (2018) The basing relation and the impossibility of the debasing demon. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55, pp. 203.

Dick, M.-D. (2018) Uncanny. Edinburgh University Press

Dick, M.-D. (2018) flâneur. Edinburgh University Press

Dick, M.-D. (2018) madeleine. Edinburgh University Press

2017

Carter, J. A. (2017) Epistemic pluralism, epistemic relativism and ‘hinge’ epistemology. Palgrave

Carter, J. A., Czarnecki, B. (2017) (Anti)-anti-intellectualism and the sufficiency thesis. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 98, pp. 374-397. (doi: 10.1111/papq.12187)

Simion, M. (2017) Epistemic norms and 'he said/she said' reporting. Episteme, 14, pp. 413-422. (doi: 10.1017/epi.2016.11)

Carter, J. A. (2017) Virtuous insightfulness. Episteme, 14, pp. 539-554. (doi: 10.1017/epi.2016.37)

(2017) Knowledge First: Approaches in Epistemology and Mind.

Carter, J. .A., Gordon, E. C., Jarvis, B. W. (2017) Knowledge-first: an introduction. Oxford University Press

Carter, J. A., Navarro, J. (2017) The defeasibility of knowledge-how. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 95, pp. 662-685. (doi: 10.1111/phpr.12441)

Carter, J. A., Pritchard, D. (2017) Cognitive bias, scepticism and understanding. Routledge

(2017) The Moral Psychology of Pride.

Carter, J. A., Gordon, E. C. (2017) The moral psychology of pride: an introduction. Rowan & Liitlefield

Carter, A. (2017) Review of Epistemology by Ernest Sosa. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2017,

Carter, J. A. (2017) Are theism and atheism totally opposed? Can they learn from each other? Routledge

Vlacos, S. (2017) Critique and Complexity: Some Challenges to Contemporary Literary Theory.

Carter, A., Collin, J. H., Palermos, O. (2017) Semantic inferentialism as (a form of) active externalism. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16, pp. 387-402. (doi: 10.1007/s11097-016-9458-y)

Vlacos, S. (2017) The Hermeneutics of Suspicion; Ricoeur's Ideology and Utopia [Guest Lecture, Fonds Ricoeur, Paris]

Carter, J. A., Peterson, M. (2017) The modal account of luck revisited. Synthese, 194, pp. 2175-2184. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-016-1047-7)

Dick, M.-D. (2017) James Joyce section 2c XV Modern Literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 96, pp. 1021-1037. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/max016)

Carter, J. A. (2017) Assertion, uniqueness and epistemic hypocrisy. Synthese, 194, pp. 1463-1476. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-015-0766-5)

Kelp, C., Simion, M. (2017) Commodious knowledge. Synthese, 194, pp. 1487-1502. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-015-0938-3)

Vlacos, S. (2017) The Problem of Other Minds in Doctorow's Homer and Langley.

Carter, J. A. (2017) Epistemological implications of relativism. Taylor and Francis

Kelp, C., Simion, M. (2017) Criticism and blame in action and assertion. Journal of Philosophy, 114, pp. 76-93. (doi: 10.5840/jphil201711426)

Vlacos, S. (2017) British fiction 1930-1945. Year's Work in English Studies, 96, pp. 944-952. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/max016)

Broncano-Berrocal, F., Carter, J. A. (2017) Epistemic luck. Taylor and Francis

Carter, J. A., Gordon, E. C. (2017) Googled assertion. Philosophical Psychology, 30, pp. 490-501. (doi: 10.1080/09515089.2017.1285395)

Carter, J. A., Pritchard, D. (2017) Inference to the best explanation and epistemic circularity. Oxford University Press

Dick, M.-D. (2017) James Joyce, minimalist. Dublin James Joyce Journal, 10, pp. 65-85. (doi: 10.1353/djj.2017.0004)

Kolocotroni, V. (2017) Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of Greek Form. Peter Lang

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The School of Critical Studies houses a strong concentration of Continental philosophy scholars and experts in Critical and literary theories. 

Our research specialisms include:

  • Theories of the Avant-garde
  • Continental Aesthetics
  • Cultural Materialism
  • Theory in Early Modern Literature
  • Eco-criticism
  • Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Marxism
  • New Historicism
  • New Materialisms
  • Philosophical Hermeneutics, Critique and Post-critique
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Structuralism
  • Deconstruction
  • Theories of Nation
  • World Systems Theory

Collaborative research and peer review is an important element of our work. We host regular research and review sessions and are engaged in interdisciplinary projects with partners beyond the School and University. Projects currently in development include an epistemological critique of post-critique and a study of psychedelic-assisted narrative self-identity.

Our cluster is genuinely interdisciplinary and invested in collaboration, having members: