Alkis Kotsonis

Silos of the Mind: Epistemic Vices, Institutional Incentives, and Philosophy’s Interdisciplinary Gap Philosophy lags behind the social sciences and life sciences in terms of interdisciplinary co-authorship, with 2024 data showing that about one paper in six by philosophers can be classified as int...

Gerry Dunne and I have just had our new paper, "Silos of the Mind: Epistemic Vices, Institutional Incentives, and Philosophy’s Interdisciplinary Gap", published online by the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
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Inferential collective self-knowledge - Asian Journal of Philosophy I develop an inferential account of collective self-knowledge. Starting with the assumption that groups have (at least propositional) attitudes I look at desiderata for any account of collective self-...

New open access paper on collective self-knowledge:

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New open access paper with @alfredarcher.bsky.social is now online! "We’re a Tourist Club Now: The Ethics of Sports Fan Tourism"
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Robin McKenna, Sophistry on Steroids? The Ethics, Epistemology and Politics of Persuasive AI - PhilPapers This paper examines the ethical, epistemological, and political implications of persuasive AI technologies. Recent research suggests that AI is roughly as persuasive as humans in many contexts. Should...

New paper in AI & Society on why we should be worried about persuasive AI technologies even if you are, like me, sceptical that we are about to enter a world of AI "hyper-persuasion".

philpapers.org/rec/MCKSOS-2

On the Intellectual Vice of Epistemic Apathy Our aim in this paper is to characterize epistemic apathy as an intellectual vice. The agent who possesses this character trait is led not to intervene to prevent another epistemic agent from formi...

New paper by Alkis Kotsonis and myself on the vice of epistemic apathy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our issue 4 is now out, with a great range of articles to enjoy: Alkis Kotsonis & Gerard Dunne argue that #empathy is an intellectual virtue in their open access paper t.co/jq4Qvb7Gcq #philsky

Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy Call for Papers: Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy   Dates: May 28-29th 2026 Location: Northeastern University London (Devon House, 58 St Katherine’s Way, London) Organiser: Pe...

Call for papers for a conference I'm hosting in London in May 2026 - Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy:

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The cover for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, featuring a detail from an impressionist painting of a busy Paris Boulevard by day by Camille Pissaro.

I’m leaning far back in my chair, looking bemused, while a copy of the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology takes up most of the shot in the foreground. There’s a bookcase with some other books stacked just behind my head.

It's publication week for the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, edited by Jennifer Lackey and myself, in the UK and in the rest of the world aside from North and South America (where it was available in May)

I'm happy to share that my paper "Self-Inflicted Epistemic Injustice" has been published online in Inquiry. You can read it here:

doi.org/10.1080/0020...