Allan Hazlett

I am a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Washington University in St. Louis and a Senior Research Associate of the African Center for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg.  I studied philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at Brown University, and I previously worked for Texas Tech University, Fordham University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of New Mexico.  

I received the Rutgers Young Epistemologist Prize (in 2007) and my research on Intellectual Virtue and the Good Life was supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship (in 2013 and 2014).  I wrote three books: A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief (Oxford University Press, 2013), A Critical Introduction to Skepticism (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), and The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism (Oxford University Press, 2024).   

I have served as the Secretary of the Scots Philosophical Association and the President of the Central States Philosophical Association.  I am the editor of the Social Epistemology category for Philpapers.org.  Recently I organized (with Matt McGrath) the 15th Midwest Epistemology Workshop, launched a project (with Frank Lovett and Ron Mallon) called the Civil Society Initiative, and organized an art exhibition called Tragic Depictions.

Here are some interviews:

• "Can we get better at disagreeing?," The Source, Washington University in St. Louis, October 2024. 

• "Get real: on the risks of authenticity," Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, November 2020.

• Ethics Lab podcast, South Dakota State University, November 2019.

Here is my 100-word account of Thomas Keller's lamb bacon.