Professor Mona Simion

Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow.

Online Profile

Project Role

Philosophy and Epistemology of ageing

  • Deputy director of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre

Research Experience

Professor Simion's work lies primarily in epistemology (epistemic justification, epistemic proper function, social epistemology, disinformation, evidence); ethics (wellbeing, trust, trustworthiness, moral psychology, ethics of AI), and philosophy of language (conceptual engineering, contextualism, speech act theory). Her work is also often interdisciplinary, with social psychology, social and political science, media studies, medicine, and computer science. She is the author of three monographs: Shifty Speach and Independent Thought (Oxford University Press 2021); Sharing Knowledge (Cambridge University Press 2021), and Resistance to Evidence (CUP 2023). She is PI of 'Knowledge Lab'- a major, 5-year research project funded by the European Research Council, PI of the 5-year 'Dimensions of Wellbeing' industry-funded project, and Co-I of a3-year Leverhulme Trust-funded project ('A Virtue Epistemology of Trust').She is also the winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize 2021.

Publications

Forthcoming. Knowledge and Disinformation. Episteme.Special Issue Episteme Conference. 2023. Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchOnline First.
2023. Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (with Chris Kelp). Asian Journal of Philosophy, Online First.
2023. What is Trustworthiness? (with Chris Kelp). Nous. Online First. 
2022. The Epistemic Normativity of Conjecture. Philosophical Studies 179: 3447–3471. 
2022. How to Be an Infallibilist (with Chris Kelp and J. Adam Carter). Philosophical Studies. 179:2675–2682. 
Forthcoming.Knowledge Comes First. Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Volume3 (Matthias Steup, Blake Roeber, John Turri, and Ernest Sosa, eds.),Wiley-Blackwell. 

Forthcoming.Knowledge Still Comes First. Contemporary Debates in Epistemology,Volume 3 (Matthias Steup, Blake Roeber, John Turri, and Ernest Sosa,eds.), Wiley-Blackwell. 
Forthcoming. Epistemology. Cambridge Handbook of Analytic Philosophy (Marcus Rossberg, ed.), Cambridge University Press.

Forthcoming.Defeat. Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, (Kurt Sylvan, ed.), Wiley-Blackwell. 
Forthcoming.Talking to Social Robots, Trusting Diagnostic AI: Explainability vs.Trustworthiness. Communication with AI: Philosophical Perspectives, (Herman Cappelen and Rachel Sterken, eds.), Oxford University Press. 

Forthcoming. Two Dilemmas for Value Sensitive Technological Design. In Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies(Mary Edwards and Orestis Palermos,eds.), Routledge. 
Forthcoming.Engineering Evidence. New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering (Manuel Gustavo Isaac and Kevin Scharp, eds.), Springer. 

Forthcoming.Knowledge and Disagreement (with Fernando Broncano-Berrocal). Routledge Handbook of Disagreement, (Maria Baghramian, J. Adam Carder, and Richard Rowland, eds.), Routledge. 
Forthcoming. A Social Epistemology of Assertion (with Chris Kelp). Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, (Jennifer Lackey and Aidan McGlynn, eds.), Oxford University Press. 

Forthcoming.Conceptual Engineering. Carnap Handbuch, (Christian Damböckand Georg Schiemer, eds.) Metzler Verlag. 
2022. On Behalf of Knowledge-First Collective Epistemology (with J. Adam Carter and Chris Kelp). Propositional and Doxastic Justification: New Essay on their Nature and Significance. (Paul Silva and Luis Oliveira, eds.), Routledge. 

2022. Warrant Transmission and Psychological Defeat. In New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure (Matt Jope and Duncan Pritchard, eds.), Routledge.