​I am an Associate Professor/Universitetslektor in Philosophy at Umeå University. Previously I have occupied postdoctoral positions at University of Leeds (on Robbie Williams's ERC Project) and Oslo University (ConceptLab/CSMN). I  completed my PhD at the University of St Andrews (2011-2015), where I was affiliated with the Arché Philosophical Research Centre. I was supervised by Herman Cappelen, and my examiners were Lizzie Fricker and Patrick Greenough. Before that I completed my BA and MA in philosophy at the University of Leeds. I'm originally from Yorkshire in the UK.

I'm either an epistemologist pretending to be a philosopher of language, or a philosopher of language pretending to be an epistemologist. Not sure which. I also do other stuff.  You can contact me at andrewpeet123 at Gmail dot com.

When I am not doing philosophy I like to spend time with my wife Lizzie and my son Oliver. I also enjoy rock climbing, and I dabble on the bass guitar (here is a picture from my youth).

Publications


20. 'Emotion, Attention, and Reason' (with Eli Pitcovski), Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
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19. 'The Puzzle of Plausible Deniability', Forthcoming in Synthese.
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18. 'Deciding What we Mean', Forthcoming in Inquiry.
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17. 'Collective Communicative Intentions in Context', Forthcoming in Ergo.
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16. 'Contrastive Intentions', Forthcoming in The Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
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15. 'Understanding, Luck, and Communicative Value', Forthcoming in A. Fairweather, & C. Montemayor (eds.) Linguistic Luck (OUP).
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14. 'Counterfactuals, Indeterminacy, and Value: A Puzzle' (with Eli Pitcovski), forthcoming in Synthese (Special Issue on Indeterminacy)
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13. 'Assertoric Content, Responsibility, and Metasemantics', Forthcoming in Mind and Language.
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12. 'Defective Contexts', In J. Khoo, and R. Sterken (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language. 2021
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11. 'Testimonial Worth', Synthese, vol 198, issue 3, 2019
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10. 'Knowledge-Yielding Communication', Philosophical Studies, vol 176, 2019
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9. 'Testimonial Knowledge-How',  Erkenntnis, vol 84, 2019
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8. 'Normal Knowledge: Toward an explanation based theory of knowledge' (with Eli Pitcovski), The Journal of Philosophy, vol 115, issue 3, 2018.
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7. 'Lost in Transmission: Testimonial Justification and Practical Reason' (with Eli Pitcovski), Analysis, vol 77 issue 2, 2017.
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6. 'Etiology, Understanding, and Testimonial Belief',  Synthese, vol 195, issue 4, 2018.
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5. 'Referential Intentions and Communicative Luck',  Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol 95, issue 2, 2017.
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4. 'Epistemic Injustice in Utterance Interpretation', ​Synthese, vol 194, issue 9, 2017.
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3. 'Testimonial Knowledge Without Knowledge of What is Said', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol 99, issue 1, 2018.
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2. 'Testimony and the Epistemic Uncertainty of Interpretation', Philosophical Studies, vol 173, issue 2, 2016. 
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1. 'Testimony, Pragmatics, and Plausible Deniability', Episteme, vol 12, issue 1, 2015. 
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Work in Progress/Review

I am currently writing papers on the following topics: Interpretation & understanding, the epistemology of testimony, and speaker intentions. 
​In some cases I have drafts available, in some cases I don't. Feel free to get in touch and ask.

Teaching

2025 (Umeå)2024 (Umeå): 2023 (Umeå): 2022 (Leeds):
  • Exploring the Arts and Humanities (International Foundation Year Program).
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (2nd year undergraduate course taught 50/50 with Jessica Keiser).
2020/2021 (Leeds):
  • Introduction to Epistemology (2nd year undergraduate course taught 50/50 with Edward Elliot).
  • Some graduate seminars on collective action (part of a larger course with multiple instructors).
2018 (Oslo):
  • The Epistemology of Testimony (graduate & advanced undergraduate).




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