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Endre Begby

Professor of Philosophy

Chair, Department of Philosophy

Education

  • M.A. University of Oslo
  • Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

Current Research Interests

I have wide-ranging interests in philosophy, but most of my work tends to focus on issues in social epistemology, on the cognitive underpinnings of language and communication, or in social and political philosophy. I teach and supervise across all these areas.

My book was published by Oxford University Press in 2021 (paperback edition 2022). My current work focuses on political epistemology more specifically. This project is in early stages yet, but I鈥檓 hoping for it to coalesce in the form of another monograph, under the working title Belief Formation in Antagonistic Information Environments.

Below are some of my recent publications, but please see  for a full list.

  • Begby, E. forthcoming. 鈥淧rejudiced Belief: Evidential Considerations.鈥� In M. Lasonen-Aarnio and C. Littlejohn, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence.
  • Begby, E. 2022. 鈥淔rom Belief Polarization to Echo Chambers: A Rationalizing Account.鈥� Episteme.
  • Begby, E. 2021c. Prejudice: A Study in Non-Ideal Epistemology. Oxford University Press.
  • Begby, E. 2021b. 鈥淭he Problem of Peer Demotion, Revisited and Resolved.鈥� Analytic Philosophy.
  • Begby, E. 2021a. 鈥淓vidential Preemption.鈥� Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
  • Begby, E. 2020. 鈥淭he Knowledge Norm of Assertion in Dialectical Context.鈥� Ratio: Special issue on Applied Philosophy of Language.
  • Begby, E. 2018b. 鈥淒oxastic Morality: A Moderately Skeptical Perspective.鈥� Philosophical Topics: Special issue: 鈥淐an Beliefs Wrong?鈥�
  • Begby, E. 2018a. 鈥淪traight Thinking in Warped Environments.鈥� Analysis: Symposium on Susanna Siegel鈥檚 The Rationality of Perception.
  • Begby, E. 2017. 鈥淧erceptual Expansion under Cognitive Guidance: Lessons from Language Processing.鈥� Mind & Language.
  • Begby, E. 2016b. 鈥淟anguage from the Ground Up: A Study of Homesign Communication.鈥� Erkenntnis.
  • Begby, E. 2016a. 鈥淒eranging the Mental Lexicon.鈥� Inquiry.
  • Begby, E. 2015. 鈥淗ermeneutics and Pragmatism,鈥� in Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander, eds., The Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics.
  • Begby, E. 2014c. 鈥淟exical Norms, Language Comprehension, and the Epistemology of Testimony.鈥� Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
  • Begby, E. 2014b. 鈥淎 Role for Coercive Force in the Theory of Global Justice?鈥� in Thom Brooks, ed., New Waves in Global Justice.
  • Begby, E. 2014a. Review of Tyler Burge, Cognition Through Understanding. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  • Begby, E. 2013b. 鈥淭he Epistemology of Prejudice.鈥� Thought.
  • Begby, E. 2013a. 鈥淪emantic Minimalism and the 鈥楳iracle of Communication鈥�.鈥� Philosophical Studies.
  • Begby, E. 2012. 鈥淐ollective Responsibility for Unjust Wars.鈥� Politics.
  • Begby, E., G. Reichberg, and H. Syse. 2012. 鈥淭he Ethics of War鈥� (parts I & II). Philosophy Compass.
  • Begby, E. 2011b. Review of Tyler Burge, Origins of Objectivity, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  • Begby, E. 2011a. 鈥淐oncepts and Abilities in Anti-Individualism.鈥� Journal of Philosophy.

Courses

Spring 2025

Future courses may be subject to change.