Phyllis Pearson
I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher at Central European University involved in the Knowledge in Crisis project.
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.
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.