Somayeh Tohidi

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, working on misinformation. I recently completed my PhD in philosophy at the London School of Economics. In 2023–24, I was a pre-doctoral fellow at MIT. Before transitioning to philosophy, I earned an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and a master's in Islamic studies.

I like to think about norms of rationality for a bounded, inquisitive Bayesian and their implications for problems in social and political philosophy. In my PhD thesis, I identify a rationality norm for engaging with new information as a bounded, inquisitive Bayesian and apply it to the conflict between epistemic and moral obligations in demographic profiling within moral philosophy. I conclude that such an agent can rationally suspend judgment on demographic statistical evidence that aligns with social stereotypes and ignore it in decision-making.

My areas of expertise include decision theory, formal social epistemology, and the philosophy of social sciences. I deeply value and enjoy interdisciplinary work in philosophy and find incredible satisfaction in bridging insights from distinct disciplines. More specifically, I'm always eager to learn more about social psychology, economics, linguistics and critical social theory.

In the past, I co-organized the Choice Group at LSE.

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Email: s.tohidi [at] lse.ac.uk

Bluesky: @somayehtohidi.bsky.social