Social Epistemology

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Theories of epistemic normativity have primarily been designed to evaluate individual people's doxastic states. It is my view that these normative theories are on to something important, but that they leave much of the richness and complexity of epistemic life unevaluated. My work is dedicated to thinking about the kind of epistemic norms we need to evaluate and guide our efforts to understand the world together. 
 

The Epistemic Organism: A Defense of Other-Regarding Epistemic Obligations

Synthese 2025

Synopsis: It’s a well-recognized truth that what’s morally or politically required can come apart from what’s best for you individually. But this thought—the thought that what’s epistemically required may be divorced from what’s epistemically best for you—is mostly absent in epistemology. I argue that it should not be. 

Environmental Epistemology 

​Synthese 2024
With Maralee Harrell and David Danks 

Synopsis: This paper argues that there are epistemic norms for evaluating environments, and begins to develop an account of how these work 

Epistemology is Progressive (draft available)

Synopsis: This paper argues that the epistemic arc of the universe is long, but bends towards understanding. 

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