RESEARCH
COGITO EPISTEMOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE
@ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
RESEARCH
PROJECTS & LABS
Knowledge-First Social Epistemology
Develops knowledge-first approaches to testimony, disagreement, groups, media.
Knowledge and Understanding Project
Investigates the nature and normatively of evidence and its relation to knowledge and understanding.
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Explores new ways of combatting online misinformation, 'fake news' and the mistrust of expertise.
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Legal Epistemology Lab
Explores topics in the epistemology of the law, such as the nature of evidence, reasonable doubt, criminal ignorance, the proof paradox, epistemic and legal responsibility.
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Virtue Epistemology of Trust Lab
Investigates the nature and rationality of trust and trustworthiness.
Explores research-driven solutions to navigating online epistemic risk, with the aim of shaping, in collaboration with academic and non-academic stakeholders, UK internet policy.
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Investigates how our thinking about moral and intellectual autonomy should be revised and expanded to help us make sense of the idea that autonomy itself can be structured in our technological and social networks.
Develops a novel, integrated, proper functionalist account of the nature of wellbeing.
Interdisciplinary Research
Cogito runs empirically-informed epistemological research. See here for our interdisciplinary collaborations.
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