Mona Simion is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow where she is Deputy Director at COGITO Epistemology Research Centre. [1]
Biography
editSimion previously held positions at the University of Oslo's ConceptLab [2] and at Cardiff University. She was promoted to Professor only four years after receiving her PhD in 2017.
Simion is a member of the Executive Committee of the Aristotelian Society, the Management Committee of BSTK – The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge [3], and the Steering Committee of the Social Epistemology Network [4]. She is on the Editorial Board of the Philosophical Quarterly and the Asian Journal of Philosophy.[5]
She is Principal Investigator of a long-term grant funded by the European Research Council entitled ‘KnowledgeLab: Knowledge First Social Epistemology” [6] and Co-Investigator (with Adam Carter, PI and Christoph Kelp) on a Leverhulme Trust funded project entitled ‘A Virtue Epistemology of Trust’ [7]. In 2018-19, she held a Fellowship from the Mind Association for a project entitled ‘Epistemic Norms and Epistemic Functions’ [8], and she won the Young Epistemologist Prize 2021 for her paper ‘Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe’ [9].
Work
editSimion’s work focuses on issues in epistemology, ethics, the philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy.
Her book ‘Shifty Speech and Independent Thought. Epistemic Normativity in Context’ develops a novel account of the normativity of constative speech such as assertion, conjecture, and reporting. In particular, it reconciles two views that have widely been held to be incompatible, to wit, a knowledge-based account of the normativity of constative speech, and a classical invariantist view of the meaning of ‘knows’. [10]
‘Sharing Knowledge. A Functionalist Account of Assertion’ (with Christoph Kelp) develops a novel account of the nature and normativity of assertion. It defends the thesis that assertion has the function of generating knowledge in hearers, uses this thesis to provide a rationale for familiar norms of assertion, and explores a range of consequences of this view in epistemology and the philosophy of language. [11]
Publications
editMonographs
- ‘Shifty Speech and Independent Though. Epistemic Normativity in Context.’ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- ‘Sharing Knowledge. A Functionalist Account of Assertion.’ (with Christoph Kelp) Cambridge: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Edited Volumes
- ‘Reasons, Justification, and Defeat.’ (with Jessica Brown) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
External Links
editReferences
edit- ^ "University of Glasgow – Cogito Epistemology Research Centre".
- ^ "ConceptLab – Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas".
- ^ "Daily Nous – New: The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge – About".
- ^ "SEN – The Social Epistemology Network – Members".
- ^ "The Asian Journal of Philosophy – Editors".
- ^ "Daily Nous – Philosophers Win Large Grants from the ERC".
- ^ "Leverhulme Trust – Grant Listings".
- ^ "Mind Association – Research Fellowships".
- ^ "Daily Nous – Simion Wins 2021 Young Epistemologist Prize".
- ^ "Oxford University Press – Shifty Speech and Independent Thought".
- ^ "Cambridge University Press – Sharing Knowledge".