
Matthew Willis
Visiting Assistant Professor, effective Autumn 2026
337B University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Philosophy of Science
Education
- Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 2023
- M.A. Philosophy, University of Mississippi, 2014
- B.A. Philosophy, University of Mississippi, 2010
- B.A. Psychology, University of Mississippi, 2010
How to pronounce my name:
I work largely in social epistemology and ethics. My current projects pertain to epistemic responsibility and what sorts of obligations we might have as well-mannered reasoners in a state of general uncertainty, including those epistemic obligations that we owe to one another. I also work on modeling how epistemic agents and the epistemic landscapes that they occupy can form a dynamic system, thus rejecting the presumption that the epistemic landscape impinges on epistemic agents without, itself, being altered by them.