Professor Alessandra Tanesini

Biography

I did my undergraduate work at Bologna University (Italy) and gained my PhD on Quine at the University of Hull (UK). In the meantime I studied and taught for a couple of years at Syracuse University (US) before coming to Cardiff in 1992. 

In 1996 I was a Visiting Senior Lecturer in School of Philosophy (General Philosophy) at the University of Sydney, and in 1997 I was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University (US).

Publications

Teaching

Teaching interests

• social and virtue epistemology
• feminist philosophy
• epistemic injustice

My current work lies at the intersection of ethics, the philosophy of language, and epistemology and focuses on epistemic vice, silencing, prejudice and ignorance. My latest book is The Mismeasure of the Self: A Study in Vice Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2021).

 Research interests

• virtue  and vice epistemology
• social epistemology
• epistemic injustice and the epistemology of ignorance
• silencing
• anger and affective polarization

Supervision

I am available to supervise PhD students on topic related to

• Social epistemology
• Virtue and vice Epistemology
• Epistemic injustice
• The epistemology of ignorance
• Feminist Philosophy

Current supervision

Timothy Kjeldsen

Research student

Past projects