Angie O'Sullivan

PhD Philosophy

  • Philosophy
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

2.16 Dugald Stewart Building

City
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Undergraduate teaching

Tutoring Roles

2019                PHIL08016 Greats: from Plato to the Enlightenment (Undergraduate course)

Research summary

My research is primarily in epistemology, particularly on scepticism, infallibilism and epistemic antirealism. My PhD project defends an infallibilist and sceptical account of knowledge and argues in favour of an antirealist solution to the sceptical puzzle. This solution, called ‘Epistemic Fictionalism’, allows knowledge claims to be true if uttered in a fictionalist spirit, while nonetheless being literally false outside of the fiction. The aim is to develop a fictionalist theory of knowledge that respects both the intuition that scepticism threatens ordinary knowledge claims, and the intuition that ordinary knowledge claims are for the most part true.

I also have wider research interests in antirealism more generally, in meta-ethics and in philosophical methodology. 

Current project grants

AHRC Scholarship (2018-2021)

Conference details

Conferences 

April 2019, BPPA Masterclass on Social Epistemology, University of Glasgow

Title: A Genealogy of Infallible Knowledge

 

May 2017, The Annual Dublin Graduate Philosophy Conference: Bridging Divides, University College Dublin

Title: ‘Epistemic Fictionalism’ 

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