Publications
O’Sullivan, A., Mace, L. (2025). Reverse-Engineering Risk. Erkenntnis. 90, 2021–2046 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00788-6
O’Sullivan, A. (2023). Non-Ideal Epistemology, written by Robin McKenna. International Journal of Scepticism. 14(1), 66-72 https://doi.org/10.1163/22105700-bja10071
Selected Presentations (* peer reviewed, ** invited speaker)
Trust and Risk, Scottish Epistemology Early Career Researchers 2023
Fictionalism and Scepticism, Scepticism Research Group 2023
** From Function to Fiction, Functional Hypotheses and the Engaged Point of View, University of Nottingham 2023
*Knowledge as a Regulative Ideal, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association (Postgraduate Session), University of St Andrews 2022
*Context, Scepticism and Metaphor, The European Epistemology Network Conference, University of Glasgow 2022
*A Function-First Approach to Epistemic Risk’ (with Lilith Mace), Social and Political Dimensions of Epistemic Risk workshop, University of Seville, Spain 2022
*A Function-First Approach to Risk’ (with Lilith Mace), Varieties of Risk Seminar, University of Edinburgh 2021
The Ideal of Knowledge, Scottish Epistemology Early Career Researchers, Online
* The Criterion: A problem for functionalist anti-scepticism, LVI Reuniones Filosóficas: Varieties of Anti Scepticism conference, University of Navarra, Spain 2021
*Finding Intrinsic Value in Fiction, Understanding Value X Postgraduate Conference, University of Sheffield
* What is the point of work, anyway?’ (with Deryn Thomas), Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference (online)
* Work as Just Compensation: what Nietzschean genealogy teaches us about UBI, Universal Basic Income and the Meaning of Work, University of St Andrews
Work in Progress
A paper on trust and risk
A paper on fictionalism and function-first philosophy
A paper on epistemic injustice and AI