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Mona Simion

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Mona Simion
Academic background
EducationUniversity of St Andrews (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Glasgow
Websitewww.mona-simion.com

Mona Simion is a philosopher. She is professor of philosophy at the University of Glasgow where she is also deputy director of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre.[1][2] Simion's work focuses on issues in epistemology, ethics, the philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy.

Biography[edit]

Simion previously held positions at the University of Oslo's ConceptLab[3] and at Cardiff University. She was promoted to professor four years after receiving her PhD in 2016.

Simion is a member of the executive committee of the Aristotelian Society,[4] the management committee of BSTK – The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge,[5] and the steering committee of the Social Epistemology Network.[6] She is on the editorial board of The Philosophical Quarterly[7] and the Asian Journal of Philosophy.[8]

She is principal investigator of a long-term grant funded by the European Research Council entitled ‘KnowledgeLab: Knowledge First Social Epistemology”[9] and Co-Investigator (with Adam Carter, PI and Christoph Kelp) on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project entitled ‘A Virtue Epistemology of Trust’.[10]

Fellowships and awards[edit]

In 2018–2019, she held a Fellowship from the Mind Association for a project entitled ‘Epistemic Norms and Epistemic Functions’,[11] and she won the Young Epistemologist Prize 2021 for her paper ‘Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe’.[12]

Work[edit]

Simion's work focuses on issues in epistemology, ethics, the philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy.

Books[edit]

  • Simion, Mona (2021). Shifty speech and independent thought : epistemic normativity in context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-264842-6. OCLC 1251804495.[13]
  • Kelp, Christoph; Simion, Mona (2022). Sharing knowledge : a functionalist account of assertion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009036818. ISBN 978-1-009-03681-8. OCLC 1273423778. S2CID 244675662.
  • Brown, Jessica; Simion, Mona (2021). Reasons, justification, and defeat. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-258649-0. OCLC 1245671247.

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