Thinking

As an undergraduate, I am still very much "mid-voyage" ...

What runs through everything I think about is a persistent interest in limits – and more precisely, in the epistemological pressures that arise there.

Whose knowledge gets to count as knowledge, who decides that, and what happens to those whose testimony never quite registers as knowledge in the first place? What can we coherently say about God once the concept is pushed to its logical edges, and does language even have the tools to get us there? What do we owe to beings we cannot know, across a silence we have not yet broken, and who gets to speak into that silence on behalf of everyone?

What might seem as diffrent questions, has actually a shared concern with how knowledge forms, who it reaches, and what happens when it runs up against the limits of what language can still carry. That is the main question I keep returning to, from different angles, in different registers.

... that said, I have found something like a direction. What follows is my attempt to sketch that out, where I am and what I find worth thinking about a lot of sleepless nights.

Where I Work

These are the areas I have spent real time with: through seminars, talks, and written work. I know my way around the debates, even if I'm still finding my footing in some of them.

Social Epistemology

Epistemic injustice, testimonial silencing & epistemic violence (Fricker, Dotson, Medina, Pohlhaus, Spivak)
Echo chambers, epistemic bubbles & epistemic immunisation (Nguyen, Furmann)
Queer/Feminist epistemology (Sedgwick, Haraway, MacKinnon, Dworkin, Hartsock, Collins)

SETI/METI

Critique of METI: Risk, responsibility & intergenerational justice (Haramia, Smith, Wright, Vakoch, Shostak, Cirkovic, Gertz)
Epistemic authority, collective decision-making in METI & the legitimacy of speaking for humanity (Haramia, DeMarines, Traphagan, Denning, Jebari & Olsson-Yaouzis, Haqq-Misra)

Analytic Philosophy of Religion
- Compossibility and coherence of divine attributes (Tapp, Zagzebski, Wierenga, Metcalf, Rogers, Everitt)
- Proper basicality, epistemic warrant & rationality of religious belief (primarily Plantinga; Alston, Greco, Moser)
- Reference, truth & meaningfulness in religious language (Alston, Plantinga, Grim & Torre, Hick, C. Rea, D. Crisp)