Symposium V: Information and Questioning
Christopher Kelp and Mona Simion (Glasgow), Anne Meylan (Zurich)

2025 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association

University of Glasgow (Cogito Epistemology Research Centre)

11 - 13 July 2025

Symposium V: Information and Questioning

Meylan
kelp
Mona Simion

Anne Meylan (Zurich)

(Zurich)

Christopher Kelp and Mona Simion

(Glasgow)

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About

Anne Meylan is professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Zurich and leads the ZEGRa research group, which primarily focuses on the rationality of beliefs. Her most recent and significant papers deal with the nature of ignorance and the norms of suspension of judgment. She has also published extensively in the field of the ethics of belief, for example on the issue of weighing practical reasons against epistemic reasons.

Christoph Kelp is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. His work is in epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and ethics. He is the author of The Nature and Normativity of Defeat (CUP 2023), Inquiry, Knowledge, and Understanding (OUP 2021), Sharing Knowledge (CUP 2021, with Mona Simion), and Good Thinking (Routledge 2018), and co-editor of Virtue Theoretic Epistemology (CUP 2020 with John Greco). He is the winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize 2017. He has led major research projects funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and Research Foundation Flanders.

Mona Simion is Deputy Director of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are in epistemology (epistemic norms, social epistemology, knowledge first epistemology), philosophy of language (assertion, conceptual engineering, contextualism), moral & political philosophy (wellbeing, blame, trust, distributive justice, voting, media ethics), and feminist philosophy (epistemic injustice, gender concepts). She is the author of  Shifty Speech and Independent Thought; (Oxford University Press 2021)  Sharing Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2021, with C. Kelp), Resistance to Evidence (CUP 2024), and Knowledge-First Epistemology: A Defence (CUP 2025). She is the winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize 2021.

 

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