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Emily McWilliams
Assistant Professor, Director of the Ethics and Leadership Initiative
Full-Time Faculty
College of Arts and Sciences: Fitz Center, Philosophy
Degrees
- Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
Profile
Emily C. McWilliams joined UD in 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Ethics and Leadership Initiative at the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community. Her work explores the social, political and ethical implications of epistemic practices. It focuses on areas like social and feminist epistemology, epistemic normativity, inquiry, epistemic oppression and epistemic injustice.
Research interests
- Epistemology
- Epistemic normativity
- Social and feminist epistemology
- Inquiry
- Epistemic injustice
- Epistemic oppression
- Ethics
Selected publications
Forthcoming, Epistemic Injustice and Inquiry In Inquiry: Philosophical Perspectives, Eds. A. Creller & J. Matheson. Routledge.
Forthcoming, Testimonial Injustice and the Nature of Epistemic Injustice In Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, Third Edition. Ed. Kurt Sylvan. Blackwell.
2024, Testimonial Withdrawal and the Ontology of Testimonial Injustice, Southwest Philosophy Review
2023, Evidentialism and Epistemic Duties to Inquire, The Philosophical Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/
2022, Ameliorative Inquiry in Epistemology In The Political Turn in Analytic Philosophy. Eds. D. Bordonaba Plou, V. Fernández Castro, and J. Torices Vidal. De Gruyter
2021, Affective Polarization, Evidence, and Evidentialism In The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology. Eds. M. Hannon & J. de Ridder. Routledge
2021, Evidentialism and Belief Polarization, Synthese