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I am an associate professor (docent) 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.
My main philosophical interest is the question of how human minds relate (and/or should relate) to the world and to each other. This takes me into many different areas of philosophy. However, probably my biggest focus has been normative (especially epistemological) issues relating to linguistic communication. I'm also interested in philosophy more generally and can sometimes be found working on topics that go beyond my core interests. 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. You can contact me at andrewpeet123 at Gmail dot com. |
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: understanding, interpretation, the epistemology of testimony, speaker intentions, harm, the ethics of interpretation, risk, epistemic justification and some other random bits and bobs.
Teaching
2026 (Umeå)
- Philosophical Perspectives on the Aims of Education (aimed at teacher education students)
- Learning from Others: The Epistemology of Testimony
- Science & Technology
- Intro to Logic
- Mind & Language (undergraduate)
- Deciding What we Mean
- Bad Language (x2 - different cohorts)
- Science & Technology (intermediate undergraduate - for students on Philosophy & AI programme)
- Vagueness & Communication (graduate & advanced undergraduate).
- Understanding (graduate & advanced undergraduate).
- Bad Language (graduate & advanced undergraduate).
- Skepticism (graduate & advanced undergraduate).
- Deciding What we Mean: The Philosophy of Conceptual Engineering (graduate & advanced undergraduate).
- Learning from Others: The Epistemology of Testimony (graduate & advanced undergraduate).
- 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).
- 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).
- The Epistemology of Testimony (graduate & advanced undergraduate).
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