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Nicholas Howell Hughes

Associate Professor - Philosophy
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Visiting address Blindernveien 31 Georg Morgenstiernes hus 0313 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo

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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