WINIR 2024 - Keynotes
Jennifer Lackey is Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University (USA). Her research in social epistemology examines issues such as the duty to object, norms of credibility, the epistemology of groups, expertise, and the distribution of epistemic goods. She is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (Oxford University of Press, 2008) and an editor of The Epistemology of Disagreement (Oxford University Press, 2013, with David Christensen), Essays in Collective Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Academic Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2018). Professor Lackey is the editor-in-chief of Episteme, an editor of Philosophical Studies, and the recipient of the American Philosophical Association’s Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution (2015).
Ashutosh Varshney is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University (USA). His research focuses on the political economy of development, urbanization, ethnic violence, processes of identity formation, and the links between identity politics and entrepreneurship, economic reform, and democracy. He is the author of Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (Yale University Press, 2003), and Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy (Penguin, 2013). Professor Varshney is a past Guggenheim Fellow, a past Carnegie Scholar, and the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Luebbert Best Book Award (2003).