Kathleen Murphy-Hollies

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20212024

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Biography

I started my PhD at the University of Birmingham in September 2019. I worked with Lisa Bortolotti, Iain Law and Quassim Cassam (Warwick). My PhD topic considered how self-concepts, self-narratives and explanations of our own behaviour (but particularly, confabulations) affect our ability to embody moral virtues. During my PhD, I paused by studies to work full time as a Teaching Fellow from January 2022 – June 2023, during which time I taught a lot of modules spanning ethics, epistemology and political philosophy. I visited Tilburg University October-December 2023. I completed my PhD in March 2024 and then started working full-time on project EPIC as a research fellow. Alongside research, I run the EPIC reading group, organise events, and am guest-editing a special issue on epistemic injustice.

I am part of The Philosophy Garden, a public philosophy project led by Lisa Bortolotti (https://sites.google.com/view/the-philosophy-garden/home). I help produce video resources for the general public and teachers to use, I use the resources myself in outreach teaching for summer school programmes, and finally I organise and participate in public philosophy events with the resources. The project focused on philosophy of conspiracy theories at first but is broadening out.

I am co-lead of an interdisciplinary research project ‘‘Film, Storytelling and Conspiracies”, which seeks to investigate links between conspiracy ideation, digital storytelling, and historical theological roots of conspiracies.

I am also Book Review Editor for the journal Philosophical Psychology.

Research interests

Current research themes of my work:

  • Epistemic injustice and self-knowledge
  • Delusion and metaphor
  • Conspiracy theories, rationality and emotion
  • Confabulation

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  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

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