Yuri Cath

News 13/02/25: An interview I did with David Rutledge on the ABC Radio National show The Philosopher's Zone is now up online, see here.

News 02/12/24: My first book Knowing What It Is Like has just been published with Cambridge University Press!

I'm a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University in Naarm / Melbourne Australia. My research explores questions in epistemology about the nature and sources of different kinds of knowledge (especially knowledge-how and 'what it is like' knowledge) and the connections between these questions and debates in other areas of philosophy (including the philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and metaphilosophy).

Before moving to Melbourne I worked in the UK, first as an AHRC Research Fellow in the Arché Research Centre at The University of St Andrews, and then as a Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. I did my PhD in the RSSS Philosophy Program, at the Australian National University. 

I am originally from Aotearoa New Zealand where I did a Bachelor of Fine Arts (majoring in painting) at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland before switching to an even more practical area of study and doing my MA in Philosophy at Auckland. 

In this interview here with Pat McConville on his Concept : Art podcast I discuss my journey from art school to academic philosophy, and my work on 'what it is like' knowledge.

My La Trobe webpage google scholar page,  philpapers profile, academia.edu page, bsky profile  and instagram profile.