Email: tanujmillind.raut@upce.cz
Room: 07, Building G
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Areas of Competence
Ethics, Political Philosophy, Plato, Philosophy of Addiction
Research topics
- Epistemology: (Theories of knowledge, epistemic normativity, genealogical explanations, virtue and vice epistemology, non-ideal epistemology, belief-revision, evidence resistance, denialism).
- Ethics: (moral debunking arguments, moral virtue and knowledge, utilitarianism, free speech, academic freedom)
- Political Philosophy: (political normativity, equality, political majoritarianism, illiberalism)
Education
2019-2015: Doctoral Degree in Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
- Dissertation Title: Epistemology under the weight of History
- Dissertation Committee: Duncan Pritchard (Chair), Sven Bernecker, Annalisa Coliva.
2019-2021: Master’s degree in philosophy, University of California, Irvine
2015-2019: Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and English Literature, University of Edinburgh
Publications
- The Exclusion Problem in Preclinical Studies: A Case of Epistemic Injustice? Social Epistemology, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2024.2400082
Presentations
- 2024: Beliefs under the weight of history, Critical Genealogies Conference, UC Irvine
- 2024: Prejudices are not like Hinges. New Waves in Hinge Epistemology, Glasgow
- 2023: Two Structural Problems for Etiological Challenges. The Southern California Epistemology Network, UC Irvine
- 2023: The Guessing Game in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, The North Carolina Philosophical Society, Duke University
- 2022: Are Prejudices like Hinges?, 3rd Annual Political Epistemology Network Conference, VU Amsterdam.
- 2022: Are Prejudices like Hinges?, 4th PhiGS Graduate Colloquium, University of Kent
- 2022: Looking for the Market with Foucault. Ethics and Applied Philosophy Graduate Conference, UNC Charlotte
Awards and honors
- 2024: Building Intellectual Communities Grant from The Humanities Center, UCI ($2000)
- 2024: The Humanities Center Graduate Liaison Network, UCI ($300)
- 2023: UCI Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Award, for Winter 2024 ($7500)
- 2023: The Humanities Center Graduate Liaison Network, UCI ($300)
- 2022: The School of Humanities Graduate Student Research and Travel Award ($1000)
- 2019-2020: UC Irvine Regents’ Fellowship
Teaching
- 2024 Lecturer, PHILOS 5: Contemporary Moral Problems, UC Irvine
- 2022 Lecturer, PHILOS 2: Puzzles and Paradoxes, UC Irvine
Workshops and Conferences
- 2024: Workshop, Genealogies and Belief, UC Irvine
- Keynote speaker: Prof. Katia Vavova
- 2024: International Conference, Critical Genealogies Conference, UC Irvine
- 2023: Conference, Globalization or Global Apartheid? , UCI Global South Studies Group.