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Name: Veli Mitova
Location: Room 7, Floor 3 UJ on Empire
Faculty of Humanities, Rated Researchers Staff Members
Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 3133
Email: vmitova@uj.ac.za
About Prof Veli Mitova
Veli is Professor in Philosophy and Director of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. She is the PI of Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South (funded by the NIHSS) and a collaborator on Epistemic Reparations (funded by the Northwestern Buffet Institute). Veli works at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and social epistemology. At the moment, her focus is on epistemic injustice, decolonising knowledge, and the ways in which phenomena such as white ignorance should make us rethink central normative-epistemology concepts like epistemic risk, blame, responsibility, and expertise. She is the author of Believable Evidence (CUP 2017), and the editor of Epistemic Decolonisation (2020) and of The Factive Turn in Epistemology (CUP 2018). Before joining the University of Johannesburg in 2015, Veli taught and researched at Universität Wien, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Rhodes University (her alma mater), and Cambridge (where she obtained her PhD).
Supervision areas:
Veli welcomes Honours, MA and PhD students who would like to work in any area of epistemology, social epistemology, and feminist epistemology, especially on epistemic injustice, the decolonisation of knowledge, and the epistemology of AI.
Check out African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science to see if what we do is a good fit and you have what it takes to join ACEPS vibrant Team & PostGrads!
For You tube talks on her work and a list of keynote addresses, see Veli’s website.
Recent Publications:
Book
2017 Believable Evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Edited works:
2022 (with R. McIntyre and S. Salem) Skepticism, Relativism, Pluralism. Special Issue of Inquiry. Routledge.
2020 Epistemic Decolonisation. Special Issue of Philosophical Papers, 49 (2).
2018 The Factive Turn in Epistemology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Papers:
Forthcoming Can theorising epistemic injustice help us decolonise? Inquiry.
Forthcoming Motivated Irrationality, Epistemic Innocence, White Ignorance. Philosophical Topics.
Forthcoming (with Chukwu, E. et al.) Evidence-based Policy Making in the Face of Uncertainty. BMJ Public Health.
Forthcoming (with Grossman, I. et al.) Dimensions of Wisdom Perception Across Five Continents. Nature Communications.
Forthcoming (with Heseen, R. et al.) A Model of Faulty and Faultless Disagreement for Post-Hoc Assessments of Knowledge Utilization in Evidence-Based Policymaking. Scientific Reports.
Forthcoming (with Machery, E. et al.) A Puzzle About Knowledge Ascriptions. Noûs.
Forthcoming (with Schneider et al.) Science-Policy Research Collaborations Need Philosophers. Nature Human Behaviour. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01892-x.
Forthcoming Wilful Hermeneutical Ignorance to the (Qualified) Rescue of Knowledge-first. In Logins, A. and Vollet, J. (Eds.) Putting Knowledge to Work. New York: Oxford University Press.
Forthcoming Replies to Critics. Asian Journal of Philosophy.
Forthcoming Machery, E. et al., Mitova, V. A Puzzle About Knowledge Ascriptions. Noûs.
2024 Decolonising Experts. In Farina, M., Lavazza, A. and Pritchard, D. (Eds.) Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 253–273). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2024 Social Group Moral Encroachment. Episteme, 20(4): 894-911.
2023 Socialising Epistemic Risk: on the Risks of Epistemic Injustice. Metaphilosophy, 54 (4): 539–552.
2023 A New Argument for the Non-Instrumental Value of Truth. Erkenntnis, 88: 1911–1933.
2023 Why Epistemic Decolonisation in Africa? Social Epistemology. DOI: 0.1080/02691728.2023.2184218.
2022 The Collective Epistemic Reasons of Social-identity Groups. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 1 (47). DOI: 10.1007/s44204-022-00051-1.
2022 (with R. McIntyre and S. Salem) Introduction to the special issue: Skepticism, Relativism, Pluralism. Inquiry. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2135877.
2021 How to Decolonise Knowledge without Too Much Relativism. In Khumalo, S. (Ed.) Decolonisation as Democratisation (pp. 24–47). Cape Town: HSRC Press.
2020 Decolonising Knowledge Here and Now. Philosophical Papers, 49 (2): 191–212.
2020 Explanatory Injustice and Epistemic Agency. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 23 (5): 707–722.
2019 Either Epistemological or Metaphysical Disjunctivism. In Doyle, C., Milburn, J., and Pritchard, D. H. (Eds.) New Issues in Epistemological Disjunctivism (pp. 194–214). New York: Routledge.
2019 The Duty of Inquiry, or Why Othello Was a Fool. In Bourne, C. and Bourne, E. C. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy (pp. 311–323). London: Routledge.
2018 Introduction: The Factive Turn. In Mitova, V. (Ed.) The Factive Turn in Epistemology (pp. 1–12). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.