Chair of Epistemology
University of Bayreuth
I am Chair of Epistemology at the University of Bayreuth. My philosophical interests concern various aspects of individuals’ minds (beliefs, rationality, self-knowledge, fragmentation, and implicit biases) as well as various aspects of interpersonal interaction (testimony, deference to first-person authority, epistemic injustice, and communication). I have published extensively in both areas.
I was previously assistant professor at the University of Graz (2013-2017), postdoc at UCLA with Tyler Burge (2011-2013), and postdoc at UCL with Lucy O’Brien (2010). I wrote my PhD thesis at the University of Granada (2009) with the support of a Spanish National Grant (2005-2009), undertaking two short visits to Sussex University (with Sarah Sawyer and Murali Ramachandran) and UCLA (with Tyler Burge).
Latest NEWS
Research project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation “Beyond the typical: authority among diverse and playful minds”
starting date: April 2021, resumed in December 2022, after maternity leave
Publications
- Mental fragmentation: dissonance, akrasia, implicit bias
- First-person authority
- Self-knowledge
- Mental externalism
- Miscelaneous
The Fragmented Mind,
co-edited book with Dirk Kindermann and Andrea Onofri, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Publication year: in press, 2021
Rationality in Fragmented Belief Systems,
to appear in The Fragmented Mind (ed. By Borgoni, Kindermann, and Onofri). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Publication year: in press, 2021
Mind studies after implicit biases,
to appear in The Political Turn in Analytic Philosophy, Berlin: De Gruyter. forthcoming.
Publication year: expected in 2021
Borgoni, C. Dialectica (2018) 72 (1): 49-68
Publication year: 2018
Epistemic akrasia and the fallibility of critical reasoning
Borgoni, C. & Luthra, Y. Philosophy Studies (2016). doi:10.1007/s11098-016-0711-6
Publication year: 2016
Dissonance and Doxastic Resistance
Borgoni, C (2015). Dissonance and Doxastic Resistance. Erkenntnis 80 (5), pp 957-974. doi: 10.1007/s10670-014-9691-0
Publication year: 2015
Dissonance and Moorean Propositions
Borgoni, C. (2015), Dissonance and Moorean Propositions. Dialectica, 69, 107–127. doi: 10.1111/1746-8361.12095.
Publication year: 2015
Dissonance and Irrationality: a criticism of the in-between account of dissonance cases
Borgoni, C. (2014), Dissonance and Irrationality: A Criticism of The In-Between Account of Dissonance Cases. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. doi: 10.1111/papq.12039
Publication year: 2014
Epistemic Akrasia and Mental Agency
Borgoni, C. (2014). Epistemic Akrasia and Mental Agency. Review of Psychology and Philosophy. doi: 10.1007/s13164-014-0205-4.
Publication year: 2014
Basic self-knowledge and transparency
Borgoni, C. Synthese (2016). doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1235-5
Publication year: 2016
Debating Self-Knowledge by Anthony Brueckner and Gary Ebbs (Critical Notice)
Borgoni, C. (2015)
Publication year: 2015
On Knowing one’s own Resistant Beliefs
Borgoni, C. (2015). On Knowing one’s own Resistant Beliefs. Philosophical Explorations 18 (2): 212-225.
Publication year: 2015
Borgoni, C.; Souza, H. (2009). Davidson’s Externalism, Universitas Philosophica 53, pp. 65-87.
Publication year: 2009
En casa, en el mundo: el externismo global constitutivo
Borgoni, C. (2009). En casa, en el mundo: el externismo global constitutivo, Teorema 28 (3), pp. 151-171.
Publication year: 2009
When Externalism and Privileged Self-Knowledge are Compatible and when they are not
Borgoni, C. (2009). When Externalism and Privileged Self-Knowledge are Compatible and when they are not. EPISTEME NS 29 (1), pp. 1-34.
Publication year: 2009
El origen de lo mental: la percepción como genero psicológico (Critical Notice)
Borgoni, C. (2011). El origen de lo mental: la percepción como genero psicológico. Critical Notice of Origins of Objectivity by Tyler Burge, Teorema 30 (3), pp. 135-148.
Publication year: 2011
Interpretando la paradoja de Moore
Borgoni, C. (2008). Interpretando la paradoja de Moore. Theoria 23 (2) pp. 145-161.
Publication year: 2008
Teaching
Supervision
Service
Department and Faculty
- Co-head of the philosophy department between 2019-2021
- Chair of the hiring committee for the Full Professor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, 2021
- Member of several hiring committees at the University of Bayreuth, and previously, at the University of Graz
Scientific community
Executive member of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Referee
Philosophy Journals
Acta Analytica, Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Crítica (UNAM-Mexico), Dialectica, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Philosophy, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Manuscrito (Unicamp – Brazil), Mind, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, The Philosophical Quarterly, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy, Thought.
Funding agencies
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung/Foundation (Ernst Mach Grant), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), European Research Council (ERC)
Contact
Prof. Dr. Cristina Borgoni Gonçalves
Chair of Epistemology
Office
Building GW II, room 01.22
Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstr. 30
D-95447 Bayreuth
Postal address
Universität Bayreuth
Institut für Philosophie
D-95440 Bayreuth
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4145
E-mail: cristina.borgoni@uni-bayreuth.de / cborgoni@gmail.com
Homepage: crisborgoni.com