Below is the audio recording of Jennifer Nagel’s presidential address, “Epistemic Territory,” given at the 2019 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Epistemic Territory” by Jennifer Nagel
Jennifer Nagel is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. She has a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on knowledge, belief, and our capacities to track these states in ourselves and others. She also works in contemporary philosophy of mind, with special interests in metacognition and mental state attribution. Her publications include “Natural Curiosity,” in Putting Knowledge to Work: New Direction for Knowledge-First Epistemology, Arturs Logins and Jacques-Henri Vollet, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2024, 170–200); “New Frontiers in Epistemic Evaluation: Lackey on the Epistemology of Groups” (Res Philosophica 100:3 [2023]: 405–13); and Knowledge, a Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014). She served as president of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2018–2019 and gave the APA’s Sosa Prize Lecture, “Seeking Safety in Knowledge,” in 2023.
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the Presidential Addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The Blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
