J. Adam Carter is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. He works mainly in epistemology, with a focus on knowledge-how, virtue epistemology, social epistemology, and the epistemology of AI, and he also has interests in the philosophy of action and the philosophy of skill. He is the author of several books including A Telic Theory of Trust (Oxford University Press, 2024), Stratified Virtue Epistemology: A Defence (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and Autonomous Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2022), and has two co-authored books forthcoming: Knowledge, Action, and Accident (with T. Kearl, Cambridge University Press) and How We Govern Our Minds Through Others (with N. Levy, MIT Press). He is currently Principal Investigator on KNOW-HOW, a five-year European Research Council Advanced Grant on theoretical and practical control across intelligence domains, running from 2025 to 2030. He is a co-editor of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, an area editor at Ergo, and he sits on the editorial board of The Philosophical Quarterly. He is an elected member of Academia Europaea.
