I work mainly on character epistemology (epistemic virtues and vices), and epistemic injustice in illness and healthcare. I'm especially interested in epistemic corruption and historical and cross-cultural approaches to character epistemology.

Vice epistemology
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• ​​A paper on the vices of epistemic laziness.


• A paper on vice-charging.

• A paper on epistemic myopia.

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• ‘Multidimensionalism, Resistance, and the Demographic Problem’, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 19.1 (2023).

 

• ‘Corrupted Temporalities, ‘Cultures of Speed’, and the Possibility of Collegiality’, Gerry Dunne (ed.), Reimagining Epistemic Injustice, special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory 55:3 (2023), 330-342.*

 

• ‘Character, Corruption, and ‘Cultures of Speed’ in the Academy’, Áine Mahon (ed.), The Promise of the University: Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope (Dordrecht: Springer 2022), 17-28.*​

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• ‘Comments on Alessandra Tanesini’s “Mindshaping and Intellectual Virtues”’, Mark Alfano, Colin Klein, Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), Social Virtue Epistemology (New York: Routledge, 2022), 161-164.*

 

• ‘Comments on C. Thi Nguyen’s “Playfulness versus Epistemic Traps”’, Mark Alfano, Colin Klein, Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), Social Virtue Epistemology (New York: Routledge, 2022), 291-293.*

 

• ‘From Vice Epistemology to Critical Character Epistemology’, Mark Alfano, Colin Klein, Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), Social Virtue Epistemology (New York: Routledge, 2022), 84-102.* 

 

• ‘Epistemic Corruption and the Research Impact Agenda’, co-authored with Jenn Chubb and Joshua Forstenzer, Theory and Research in Education 19.2 (2021: 148-167.

 

• ‘Character, Corruption, and ‘Cultures of Speed’ in the Academy’, Áine Mahon (ed.), The Promise of the University: Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope (Dordrecht: Springer 2022), 17-28.​​*
  
  
• ‘A Case for an Historical Vice Epistemology’, Laura Candiotto (ed.), The Social Dimension of the Ethics of Knowledge: Intellectual Virtues and Intellectual Vices in Epistemic Practices, a special issue of Humana.Mente 14.39(2021): 69-86.*

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• 'Epistemic Corruption and Political Institutions', Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook to Political Epistemology (New York: Routledge, 2021), 347-358.*

 

• 'Mathematical Practice and Epistemic Virtue and Vice', co-authored with Fenner Tanswell, Synthese 199 (2021): 407-426.

  

• 'Martial Metaphors and Argumentative Virtues and Vices', Alessandra Tanesini and Michael Lynch (eds.) Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2021), 25-38.*

 

• Vice Epistemology, co-edited with Quassim Cassam and Heather Battaly (New York: Routledge, 2020).
  • 'From Bad Thinking to Vice Epistemology', Imperfect Cognitions, 20 October 2020.*

 

• 'Introduction: From Epistemic Vices to Vice Epistemology', co-authored with Quassim Cassam and Heather Battaly in our (eds.), Vice Epistemology: Theory and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2020), 1-17.

 

• 'Epistemic Corruption and Social Oppression', Ian James Kidd, Quassim Cassam, and Heather Battaly (eds.), Vice Epistemology: Theory and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2020), 69-86.

 

• 'Epistemic Vices and Feminist Philosophies of Science', Kristen Intemann and Sharon Crasnow (eds.), The Routledge Handbook to Feminist Philosophy of Science (New York: Routledge, 2020), 157-169*

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• 'From the Vicious Mind to the Scientific Mind', De Filosoof 79 (2020): 28-32.*

 

• ​'Epistemic Corruption and Education', Episteme 16.2 (2019): 220-235.​

 

• ​'Deep Epistemic Vices', ​Journal of Philosophical Research 43 (2018): 43-67.*
  • ​​​Special issue on epistemic vice.

 

• 'Epistemic Courage and the Harms of Epistemic Life', Heather Battaly (ed.), The Routledge Handbook to Virtue Epistemology (New York: Routledge, 2018), 244-255.*

 

• 'Hubris as Prime Ministerial Vice', Open for Debate blog, 31 July 2017.*

 

• 'Capital Epistemic Vices', Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6.8 (2017): 11-16.
  • Quassim Cassam, 'Vice Ontology', Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 11 (2017): 20-27.

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• 'Cranks, Pluralists, and Epistemic Vices', Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6(7) (2017): 7-9.

 

• ‘Is Scientism Epistemically Vicious?’, Jeroen de Ridder, Rik Peels, and René van Woudenberg (eds.) Scientism: Prospects and Problems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 222-249.

 

• ‘Epistemic Vices in Public Debate: The Case of ‘New Atheism’’, Christopher Cotter, Philip Quadrio, and Jonathan Tuckett (eds.), New Atheism: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017), 51-68.*

 

• 'Epistemic Corruption and Manufactured Doubt: The Case of Climate Science', co-authored with Justin Biddle and Anna Leuschner, Public Affairs Quarterly 31.3 (2017): 165-187.
  • Special issue: Responsible Use of Science in Societal Decision-Making, ed. Kevin C. Elliott and Ted Richards.

 

• 'Charging Others With Epistemic Vice', The Monist, 99.3 (2016): 181-197.
  • Special issue: Virtues, edited by Mark Alfano.

 

• 'Vice-charging: Calling Out the Vices of the Mind', The Tablet (Biola University Centre for Christian Thought), 28 November 2016.*

 

• ‘Epistemic Vices – Conference Report’, The Reasoner 9.10 (2015): 85-86.* 

 

• ‪‘Aggression, Virtue, and Philosophy’, invited contribution to Manifest Virtue blog, June 2015.

 

Virtue epistemology 

• 'Is Intellectual Humility Compatible with Political Conviction?', co-authored with Michael Hannon, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, forthcoming.

 

• 'Institutional Cynicism and Civic Virtue', Hana Samarzija and Quassim Cassam (eds.), ​The Epistemology of Democracy ​(New York: Routledge, 2023), 152-169.*  

 

• 'The Ambivalence of Cynicism', Open for Debate, 19 September 2022.*


• ‘Political Conviction, Intellectual Humility, and Quietism’, co-authored with Michael Hannon, Journal of Positive Psychology 18:2 (2023): 233-236, https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2022.2155230.*​

 

• ‘Creativity in Science and the ‘Anthropological Turn’ in Virtue Theory’, European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11.15 (2021): 1-16.
  • Special issue on Creativity in Art, Science & Mind, edited by Adrian Currie and Anton Killin.

 

• 'Humility, Contingency, and Pluralism in the Sciences', Mark Alfano, Michael Lynch, and Alessandra Tanesini (eds.) The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Humility (New York: Routledge, 2020), 346-358.*

 

• 'Confucianism, Curiosity, and Moral Self-Cultivation', Ilhan Inan, Lani Watson, Dennis Whitcomb, and Safiye Yigit (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Curiosity (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), 97-116.*

 

• 'Epistemic Courage and the Harms of Epistemic Life', Heather Battaly (ed.), The Routledge Handbook to Virtue Epistemology (New York: Routledge, 2018), 244-255.*

 

•  ‘Confidence, Humility, and Hubris in Victorian Scientific Naturalism’, Herman Paul and Jeroen van Dongen (eds.), Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017), 11-25.* 

 

• ‪‘Educating for Intellectual Humility’, Jason Baehr (ed.), Intellectual Virtues and Education: Essays in Applied Virtue Epistemology (London: Routledge, 2015), 54-70.  

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• ‘Intellectual Humility, Confidence, and Argumentation’, Topoi 35 (2016): 395-402.
  • Special issue: Virtues and Arguments, ed. Andrew Aberdein and Daniel H. Cohen.

 

• 'Was Sir William Crookes Epistemically Virtuous?', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 48A (2014): 67-74.* 
  • Special issue: Psychical Research in the History of Medicine and the Sciences, ed. Andreas Sommer.

 

• ‘Pierre Duhem’s Epistemic Aims and the Intellectual Virtue of Humility’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42.1 (2011): 185-189.
  • Milena Ivanova, 'Good Sense in Context: A Reply to Kidd', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42.4 (2011): 610-612.

 

• Review of Stephen Napier, Virtue Epistemology: Motivation and Knowledge, Philosophical Writings. 

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Epistemic injustice

• I maintain an online bibliography of work on epistemic injustice, illness, and psychiatry.F

• 'Epistemic Injustice: Caution and Complexity', EPIC blog, 17 January 2025.

 

• ‘Correspondence: Epistemic Injustice Should Matter to Psychiatrists’, co-authored with Lucienne Spencer and Eleanor Harris, Philosophy of Medicine 4(1). https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2023.159.

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• ‘Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatric Research and Practice’, co-authored with Lucienne Spencer and Havi Carel, Philosophical Psychology, forthcoming, DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2156333.

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• ‘Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice’, co-authored with Havi Carel, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29.4 (2022): 473-496.
  • Winner of the PEriTiA Prize of the 2020 IJPS Robert Papazian essay competition on the theme ‘Testimonial Injustice and Trust’, funded by the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life.
  • Reprinted in Melanie Altanian and Maria Baghramian (ed.) Testimonial Injustice and Trust (London: Routledge, 2022/23).

 

• 'Pathocentric Epistemic Injustice and Conceptions of Health', co-authored with Havi Carel, in Ben Sherman and Stacey Goguin (eds.), Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019),153-168.* 

 

• 'Healthcare Practice, Epistemic Injustice, and Naturalism', co-authored with Havi Carel, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 84 (2018): 1-23.*

 

• ‘Epistemic Injustice and Psychiatry’, co-authored with Havi Carel and Paul Crichton, British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin 41 (2017): 65-70.
  • Manhog M. Zarroug, Dieneke Hubbeling, Robert Bertram, 'Epistemic Injustice or Safety First?', British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin 41.1 (2017): 56. ​
    • Sadie Cathcart, 'Psychiatric diagnosis can lead to epistemic injustice, researchers claim', Made in America: Science, Psychiatry, and Social Justice, 3 April 2018. 

 

• The Routledge Handbook to Epistemic Injustice, co-edited with José Medina and Gaile Pohlhaus (London: Routledge: 2017).
  • Review: Amiel Bernal, 'The Epistemic Injustice Anthology', Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6.11 (2017): 1-8.
  • Review: Hana Samaržija, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 2019.

 

• ‘Introduction’, co-authored with José Medina and Gaile Pohlhaus, The Routledge Handbook to Epistemic Injustice, Ian James Kidd, José Medina, and Gaile Pohlhaus (London: Routledge: 2017), 1-9.

 

• ‘Epistemic Injustice in Medicine and Healthcare’, co-authored with Havi Carel, The Routledge Handbook to Epistemic Injustice, Ian James Kidd, José Medina, and Gaile Pohlhaus (London: Routledge: 2017), 336-346.

 

• ‘Epistemic Injustice and Religion’, The Routledge Handbook to Epistemic Injustice, Ian James Kidd, José Medina, and Gaile Pohlhaus (London: Routledge: 2017), 386-396.

 

• ‘Epistemic Injustice and Illness’, co-authored with Havi Carel, Journal of Applied Philosophy 33(2) (2017): 172-190. 
  • Special issue: Applied Epistemology, ed. David Coady and Miranda Fricker.

 

• ‘Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare: A Philosophical Analysis’, co-authored with Havi Carel, Medicine, Healthcare, and Philosophy 17.4 (2014): 529-540.

​Social and institutional epistemology

• ‘The Ethics and Epistemology of Deepfakes’, co-authored with Taylor Matthews (first author), in Joe Saunders and Carl Fox (eds.), The Routledge Handbook to Media Ethics (New York: Routledge, 2023).*

 

• 'Institutional Opacity and Trust', co-authored with Havi Carel, Open for Debate, 12 June 2023.

 

• ‘Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice’, co-authored with Havi Carel, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29.4 (2022): 473-496.
  • Winner of the PEriTiA Prize of the 2020 IJPS Robert Papazian essay competition on the theme ‘Testimonial Injustice and Trust’, funded by the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life.
  • Reprinted in Melanie Altanian and Maria Baghramian (ed.) Testimonial Injustice and Trust (London: Routledge, 2022/23).

 

• 'Epistemic Corruption and Political Institutions', Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook to Political Epistemology (New York: Routledge, 2021), 347-358.*