Matthew Willis

Matthew Willis

Matthew Willis

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Visiting Assistant Professor, effective Autumn 2026

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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

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Matthew Willis 

 

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.