Phyllis Pearson
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I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher at Central European University involved in the Knowledge in Crisis project.
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I work primarily at the intersection of epistemology and ethics.
My current project ​aims to understand the relationship between our epistemic obligations and how we ought to treat one another. In particular, I'm working to better understand putative moral/epistemic virtues, like open-mindedness, humility, and empathy, and how these relate to our epistemic obligations to seek knowledge and form beliefs responsibly.
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I earned my PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2024. My dissertation argued for a kind of internalism about epistemic justification according to which the agency of the believer plays an important role in determining what that agent ought to believe.
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