Matthew Shields

I am an assistant professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University. Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin, associated with the PERITIA project. I received my PhD in Philosophy from Georgetown University. After my PhD, I was a Lecturer in Philosophy for two years at University of Colorado Boulder.

You can contact me at shieldm@wfu.edu.

My primary research is in epistemology and philosophy of language. My work considers the epistemic and linguistic practices that promote and detract from various forms of inquiry. My research also addresses questions of how best to understand and theorize about the phenomena of expert disagreement, truth, conceptual change, and power and rationality.

In addition to my work in philosophy of language and epistemology, I think about these questions from the perspective of various traditions in the history of philosophy and other areas of contemporary philosophy, including the pragmatist tradition, post-Kantian European philosophy, philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and Jewish philosophy. I am also prepared to teach in these areas.

My academic CV can be downloaded here.