Hi, I'm Adham El Shazly
Hi, I'm Adham El Shazly
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I'm currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, support by the Thouless Fund Doctoral Prize from Clare Hall.
Starting Fall 2026, I will be an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge.
I recently completed my Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where I was supervised by Alexander Bird and Jessie Munton.
🔎 research
🔎 research
My research is at the intersection between epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind. Much of it is on the nature of understanding and how it figures in our epistemic and moral lives.
In social & political philosophy, I'm interested in the philosophy of the city, urbanism, anarchism, and hope.
If you’re procrastinating, you can read more about my research.
🥝 publications
🥝 publications
▸ Thinking Together
Oxford Studies in Epistemology (forthcoming)
Finalist for Marc Sanders Prize in Epistemology
Philosophical Quarterly (2025)
Australasian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)
▸ Understanding Biology with Machine Learning: Compression, Intelligibility, and Dependency
Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences (2026). Co-authored; Arxiv pre-print
🪴 in prep
🪴 in prep
shared inquiry & attunement. I argue that shared inquiry is constituted by a norm of perspectival attunement.
reconceiving murdochian humility (to appear in Iris Murdoch Today: Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue).
radical hope & moral imagination. I argue that hope is an imaginative attitude and that its value is not grounded in meeting standards of epistemic rationality. This illuminates how hope substantiates moral agency under oppressive and dark conditions.
freedom as humility. Drawing on Iris Murdoch, I develop an account of moral freedom in terms of humility. I suggest that the moral conception of freedom breaks apart from its political conception.
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