Name Quassim Cassam Role Professor | Education Keble College, Oxford | |
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Books The possibility of knowle, Self and World, Berkeley's Puzzle: What Doe, Self‑Knowledge: Oxford Bibliogra, Self‑Knowledge for Humans | ||
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Quassim Cassam (born 31 January 1961) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Cassam was born in Mombasa, Kenya and educated at Keble College, Oxford. He writes on self-knowledge, perception, epistemic vices and topics in Kantian epistemology.
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- Conspiracy theories and the problem of disappearing knowledge quassim cassam tedxwarwick
- self knowledge in diagnosis and self diagnosis quassim cassam
- Background
- Biography
- Research interests
- Books
- References
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Background
From 1986 to 2004 he taught Philosophy at Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of Wadham College. In 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2004 he held the John Evans Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois. He was Professor of Philosophy at University College London in 2005-2006 and Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University in 2007-2008. Since 2009, Cassam has been a Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University. In 2016 he was awarded a Leadership Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK. He has been a President of the Aristotelian Society (2010–11) and a Mind Senior Research Fellow (2012–13).
Biography
Cassam was born in Mombasa, Kenya, to a Gujarati Ismaili family. His parents and grandparents were all born in Kenya. His great grandparents were born in Gujarat, India, and emigrated to Kenya in the 1890s. He was a Kenyan citizen until an age of 18 but has spent most of his adult life in the U.K. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Keble College, Oxford and was awarded an Oxford doctorate in 1985 for a dissertation on transcendental arguments.
Research interests
Cassam's early publications were mostly on Kant, including "Transcendental Arguments, Transcendental Synthesis, and Transcendental Idealism" (Philosophical Quarterly, 1987) and "Kant and Reductionism" (Review of Metaphysics, 1989). In recent times he has published work on epistemic vices and introduced the label 'vice epistemology' for the philosophical study of the nature and significance of epistemic vices such as closed-mindedness, overconfidence, dogmatism and wishful thinking
He is the author of four books: Self and World (Oxford, 1997); The Possibility of Knowledge (Oxford, 2007); Self-Knowledge for Humans (Oxford, 2014); and, jointly with John Campbell, Berkeley's Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us? (Oxford, 2014).
He is also the editor of Self-Knowledge (Oxford, 1994) and the author of the Self-Knowledge bibliography in Oxford Bibliographies Online (Oxford, 2010). His 2010 Aristotelian Society Presidential address, "Knowing What You Believe", was published in The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2011.