Prof Jessica Brown
Professor
Research areas
Epistemology, moral and epistemic responsibility, philosophical methodology
Prof Brown’s main areas of research are epistemology, responsibility, and philosophical methodology.
Within epistemology, she works on a wide range of issues concerning both individual and group epistemology, including evidence, knowledge, justification and defeat, the closure and transmission of knowledge and warrant, fallibilism vs infallibilism, contextualism vs invariantism, scepticism, the epistemic norms of assertion and practical reasoning, blameworthy belief, epistemic blame.
Within responsibility, Prof Brown is interested in both epistemic and moral responsibility as it affects both individuals and groups. She is currently writing a book on group epistemology and responsibility.
Within philosophical methodology, Prof Brown is interested in a range of methodological issues including the nature of philosophy (it’s subject matter and evidence); the role of ordinary language, linguistics and conceptual analysis in philosophy; thought experiments and intuitions; and, sources of scepticism about philosophy (disagreement, evolutionary debunking worries, experiment philosophy).
PhD supervision
- Patrick Winther-Larsen
- Lara Scheibli
- Lara Maassen
- Nathan Bray
- Pak Him Lai
- Tianxiang Xu
- Amiya Hashkes
Selected publications
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Open access
Group motivation
Brown, J., 23 May 2022, In: Noûs. 56, 2, p. 494-510 17 p., 12366.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
What is epistemic blame?
Brown, J., 20 May 2020, In: Noûs. 54, 2, p. 389-407Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fallibilism: evidence and knowledge
Brown, J., 12 Apr 2018, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 197 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Intuitions, evidence and hopefulness
Brown, J. A., 2013, In: Synthese. 190, 12, p. 2021-2046 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Group belief and direction of fit
Brown, J. A., 1 Nov 2023, In: Philosophical Studies. 180, p. 3161-3178 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review