Nicholas Hughes

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Visiting address Blindernveien 31 Georg Morgenstiernes hus 0313 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo
Other affiliations The International Summer School (Student)

 

Personal website

 

www.nickhowellhughes.com 

Academic interests

 

My research interests lie primarily within epistemology and ethics, but extend to issues in the philosophy of action, the philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, and the theory of rationality. Most of my work to date has focused on the nature and limits of normative guidance, ‘ought-implies-can’ principles, questions about what normative and metaphysical roles knowledge plays, and the relationship between knowledge and rationality. Recently I’ve published a number of papers about the possibility, nature, and scope of epistemic dilemmas: situations in which one faces conflicting, and so jointly unsatisfiable, epistemic requirements. I’m currently working on a new project about non-ideal epistemic rationality.

Background

 

2023-2023: University of Gothenburg, Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy

2019-2023: University of Oxford, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy

2018-2019: Durham University, Junior Research Fellow

2016-2018: University College Dublin, IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2015-2016: University of Oslo, Stipendiary Lecturer

 

 

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