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Name: Veli Mitova
Location: Room 20, Floor 5 UJ on Empire
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Tel: 011 559 3133
Email:听vmitova@uj.ac.za
About Prof Veli Mitova
Veli听is Professor in听Philosophy and Director of the听African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science听at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. She is the PI of听Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South听(funded by the NIHSS) and a collaborator on听Epistemic Reparations听(funded by the Northwestern Buffet Institute). Veli works at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and social epistemology. At the moment,听her focus is on epistemic injustice, decolonising knowledge, and the ways in which phenomena such as white ignorance should make us rethink central normative-epistemology concepts like epistemic risk, blame, responsibility, and expertise. She is the author of听(CUP 2017), and the editor of听(2020) and of听听(CUP 2018). Before joining听the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg in 2015, Veli taught and researched at Universit盲t Wien, Universidad Nacional Autonoma听de M茅xico, Rhodes 欧美福利100000 (her alma mater), and Cambridge (where she obtained her PhD).
Supervision areas
Veli welcomes Honours, MA and PhD students who would like to work in any area of epistemology, social epistemology, and feminist epistemology, especially on epistemic injustice, the decolonisation of knowledge, and the epistemology of AI.
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Recent Publications
Book听
2017 听听听听 Believable Evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge 欧美福利100000 Press.
Edited works
Forth.听 听 Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known. Special Issue of Philosophical Studies.
Forth.听 听 (with P. Benton and D. Moletsane) Indigenous Knowledge Systems and AI. Special Issue of AI&Society.
2022 听听听听 (with R. McIntyre and S. Salem) Skepticism, Relativism, Pluralism. Special Issue of Inquiry. Routledge.
2020听听听听听 Epistemic Decolonisation. Special Issue of听Philosophical Papers, 49 (2).
2018听听听听听 The Factive Turn in Epistemology. Cambridge: Cambridge 欧美福利100000 Press.
Papers
Forth.听 听 Oppressive Epistemic Dilemmas. In Schmidt, E. and Grajner, M. (Eds.) Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Normativity. Routledge.
Forth.听 听 (with S. Schmidt and A. Meylan) The Ethics of Belief in Conspiracy Theory. In Tsapos, M. and Coady, D. (Eds.) The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. Edward Elgars Publishing.
2025听 听 听 Irreparable Epistemic Wrongs. Philosophical Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02406-9.
2025听 听 听 Hermeneutical Relationships. Inquiry. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2025.2539820.
2025听 听 听 Motivated Irrationality, Epistemic Innocence, White Ignorance. Philosophical Topics, 51 (2): 93-112.
2025听 听 听 Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations. Episteme. DOI: 10.1017/epi.2025.2.
2025听 听 听 De-idealising Epistemology through Collectivising. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2025.2482906
2025听 听 听 (with Bortolus, A. et al.) Knowledge Brokers at the Science鈥揚olicy Interface: Insights from Biosecurity and Environmental Management. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02208-7.
2024听 听 听 听Can Theorising Epistemic Injustice Help Us Decolonise? Inquiry. DOI:听10.1080/0020174X.2024.2327489.
2024听 听 听 (with Machery, E. et al.) A Puzzle About Knowledge Ascriptions. 狈辞没蝉. http://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12515
2024听 听 听 (with Rudnev, M. et al.) Dimensions of Wisdom Perception Across Twelve Countries on Five Continents. Nature Communications, 15: 6375. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50294-0.
2024听 听 听 (with Heseen, R. et al.) A Model of Faulty and Faultless Disagreement for Post-Hoc Assessments of Knowledge Utilization in Evidence-Based Policymaking. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69012-3.
2024听 听 听 (with Schneider, M. et al.) Science-Policy Research Collaborations Need Philosophers. Nature Human Behaviour. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01892-x.
2024听 听 听 (with Chukwu, E. et al.) Examining Self-described Policy-relevant Evidence Base for Policymaking: an Evidence Map of COVID-19 Literature. BMJ Public Health. doi:10.1136/ bmjph-2023-000694
2024听 听 听 Wilful Hermeneutical Ignorance to the (Qualified) Rescue of Knowledge-first. In Logins, A. and Vollet, J. (Eds.) Putting Knowledge to Work. New York: Oxford 欧美福利100000 Press.
2024 听听听听听Decolonising Experts. In Farina, M., Lavazza, A. and Pritchard, D. (Eds.) Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 253鈥�273). Oxford: Oxford 欧美福利100000 Press.
2024 听听听听听Social Group Moral Encroachment. Episteme, 20(4): 894-911.
2023听听听听听 Socialising Epistemic Risk: on the Risks of Epistemic Injustice. Metaphilosophy, 54 (4): 539鈥�552.
2023听听听听听 A New Argument for the Non-Instrumental Value of Truth. Erkenntnis, 88: 1911鈥�1933.
2023听听听听听 Why Epistemic Decolonisation in Africa? Social Epistemology. DOI: 0.1080/02691728.2023.2184218.
2022 听听听听 The Collective Epistemic Reasons of Social-identity Groups. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 1 (47). DOI: 10.1007/s44204-022-00051-1.
2022听听听听听 (with R. McIntyre and S. Salem) Introduction to the special issue: Skepticism, Relativism, Pluralism. Inquiry. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2135877.
2021听听听听听 How to Decolonise Knowledge without Too Much Relativism. In Khumalo, S. (Ed.) Decolonisation as Democratisation (pp. 24鈥�47). Cape Town: HSRC Press.
2020听听听听听 Decolonising Knowledge Here and Now. Philosophical Papers, 49 (2): 191鈥�212.
2020听听听听听 Explanatory Injustice and Epistemic Agency. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 23 (5): 707鈥�722.
2019听听听听听 Either Epistemological or Metaphysical Disjunctivism. In Doyle, C., Milburn, J., and Pritchard, D. H. (Eds.) New Issues in Epistemological Disjunctivism (pp. 194鈥�214). New York: Routledge.
2019听听听听听 The Duty of Inquiry, or Why Othello Was a Fool. In Bourne, C. and Bourne, E. C. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy (pp. 311鈥�323). London: Routledge.
2018 听听听听 Introduction: The Factive Turn. In Mitova, V. (Ed.) The Factive Turn in Epistemology (pp. 1鈥�12). Cambridge: Cambridge 欧美福利100000 Press.
Keynotes
2024听 听 Irreparable Epistemic Wrongs. Epistemic Harms, Agency, and The Right to Be Known. Winnipeg, Canada.
2024听 听 Descolonizando la filosof铆a: Lecciones de Sud谩frica. Epistemolog铆as andinas y amaz贸nicas, Lima, Peru.
2023听 听 Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations. Epistemic Blame and Epistemic Reparations, Brandon 欧美福利100000, Canada.
2022听 听 Decolonising Philosophy through XPhi. Final Geography of Philosophy Conference, Pittsburgh (online).
2022听 听 Risky White People: The Epistemic Risks of Injustice. The Social and Political Dimensions of Epistemic Risk, 欧美福利100000 of Seville (online).
2021听 听 听Epistemic Decolonisation for Today鈥檚 Africa. Diversity Reading List and British Philosophical Association Online Series on Epistemic Decolonisation, LSE, UK (online).
2021听 听 Is Epistemic Injustice White-People Stuff? Thinking at the border: Post- and decolonial theory and epistemic injustice. Oxford, UK (online).
2020听 听 There Is Still Hope for Doxastic Motivational Internalism. Metaethics and Metaepistemology. Vienna (online).
2019听 听 Either Metaphysical or Epistemological Disjunctivism. SUK, 欧美福利100000 of Z眉rich.
2019听 听 How to Decolonise Knowledge without too Much Relativism. 2nd Annual PhiGs Workshop, Kent, UK.
2017听 听 Believable Evidence. The Ontology of Reasons Workshop, 欧美福利100000 of Basel, Switzerland.
2017听 听 Reasons are Us. Rhodes Philosophy Graduate Day, Rhodes 欧美福利100000, SA.
Invited Talks (last 5 years)
2025听听听听听听听 Hermeneutical Reparations. Intersection of Linguistic Justice and Epistemic Injustice: A decolonial perspective. Tilburg 欧美福利100000, the Netherlands.
2025听听听听听听听 Hermeneutical Relationships. Social Epistemology Conference. Bled, Slovenia.
2025听听听听听听听 Hermeneutical Reparations and the Right to Be Known. Carceral Injustice and the Right to Be Known, Northwestern 欧美福利100000, US.
2025听听听听听听听 Linguistic Reparations. Linguistic Justice, Tilburg 欧美福利100000, Netherlands.
2025听听听听听听听 Irreparable Epistemic Wrongs. Philosophy of Science Speaker Series, Vienna 欧美福利100000.
2024听 听 Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations. Epistemic Oppression. UQAM, Montreal, Canada.
2024听 听 Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations. Thinking from Everywhen: Philosophy, Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives, Australian National 欧美福利100000 (ANU).
2024听 听 Social Group Moral Encroachment. Thursday Seminar Series, School of Philosophy ANU.
2024听 听 Why Epistemic Decolonisation in Africa? Philosophy Lecture Series National Open 欧美福利100000 of Nigeria (online)
2023听 听 Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations. Reparations, Decolonisation, and Just Transitions, New Delhi, Institute for Technology, India.
2023听 听 Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations. Epistemic Reparations and Blame. Winnipeg, Canada.
2023听 听 听Social Group Moral Encroachment. Episteme Annual Conference, Stone Town, Zanzibar.
2023听 听 听Social Group Moral Encroachment. Philosophy Department, 欧美福利100000 of Cologne, Germany.
2023听 听 听(with A. Akpan, C. Rybko, and A. Tobi) Epistemic Injustice in Data Tech. Global Data Justice. TILT, 欧美福利100000 of Tilburg, Holland.
2023听 听 听Decolonising Experts. Canada Chair for Epistemic Injustice, UQ脌M, Canada (online).
2023听 听 听Decolonising Experts. Constructing Social Hierarchies, 欧美福利100000 of Melbourne.
2023听 听 听Does Epistemic Injustice Need Decolonising? Decolonising Epistemic Injustice, The Artic 欧美福利100000, Troms酶, Norway.
2022听 听 听Decolonising Experts. African Epistemologies Advanced Seminar Series, Institute for Humanities in Africa, 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town (online).
2022听 听 听White Ignorance Calls for a Groupy Account of Epistemic Blame. ERC Group Agency Project Workshop, Vienna.
2022听 听 听Wilful Ignorance and Concept Travel. The Philosophy and Global Politics of Concept Travel Workshop, 欧美福利100000 of Basel.
2022听 听 听White Ignorance Undermines Internalism about Epistemic Blame. Vienna Analytic Forum, 欧美福利100000 of Vienna.
2022听 听 听White Ignorance Undermines Internalism about Epistemic Blame. Epistemic Wrongs Workshop, 欧美福利100000 of Z眉rich.
2022听 听 听 The Vicious Cycle of Epistemic Injustice. PhilExpo. Z眉rich Society for Philosophy, Switzerland.
2022听 听 听 White Ignorance Undermines Internalism about Epistemic Blame. Royal Institute of Philosophy, 欧美福利100000 of Kent (online).
2022听 听 听 Socialising Epistemic Risk. Philosophy Speaker Series, 欧美福利100000 of Liverpool, UK (online).
2021听 听 听 Is Epistemic Injustice White-People Stuff? 6th SOAS World Philosophies Lecture, SOAS 欧美福利100000 of London, UK (online).
2021听 听 听 Motivated Irrationality, Epistemic Innocence, and White Ignorance. The Value of Irrationality. 欧美福利100000 of Z眉rich, Switzerland.
2021听 听 听 Desuperiorising epistemic justice in the service of knowledge-decolonisation. A Call for the Desuperiorization of Philosophy, and the Foundation of Superaltern Studies, 欧美福利100000 of Paderborn, Germany (online).
2021听 听 听 Decolonising Knowledge: what, why, how. What Is Epistemic Decolonization Online Series, LSE, UK.
2020听 听 听Moral Encroachment and the Value of Irrationality. Philosophy Seminar. 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town.