Miloud Belkoniene

miloud[at]belkoniene[dot]org

About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zürich. My research focuses mostly on the nature of understanding and its relation to knowledge and epistemic justification.

While my work concerns primarily core issues in epistemology, I am also interested in issues related to normativity more generally. Some of my present projects are therefore linked to moral philosophy and philosophy of language.

Research

Books

Rational Understanding: From Explanation to Knowledge. Routledge, 2023. (open access)

Journal Articles

Explanationism, Circularity and Non-Evaluative Grounding. Grazer Philosophische Studien, forthcoming.
Moral Understanding: From Virtue to Knowledge. Noûs, forthcoming. (link to article)
Grasping in Understanding. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 74, 2023, pp. 603-617. (link to article)
Confusion, Understanding and Success. International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 13, 2023, pp. 44-60. (link to article)
Reassessing Lucky Understanding. Episteme, 20, 2023, pp. 513-527. (link to article)
The rational Dimension of Understanding. Synthese, 200, 2022. (link to article) (pdf)
Why Explanatory Considerations Matter. Erkenntnis, 86, 2021, pp. 473-491. (link to article)
Acting Upon Uncertain Beliefs (with Patryk Dziurosz-Serafinowicz). Acta Analytica, 35, 2020, pp. 253-271. (link to article) (pdf)
What Should We Believe about the Future? Synthese, 197, 2020, pp. 2375-2386. (link to article)
Normalcy, Understanding and the Problem of Statistical Evidence. Theoria, 85, 2019, pp. 202-218. (link to article)
What Are Explanatory Virtues Indicative Of? Logos and Episteme, 8, 2017, pp. 179-193. (link to article)

Encyclopedia Entries

Certainty (with Jacques-Henri Vollet). Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2022. (link to article)
Certitude (with Jacques-Henri Vollet). l'Encyclopédie Philosophique, 2021. (link to article)

PhD Dissertation

An Inquiry into the Conditions of Rationality. 2018. (contact for the manuscript)

Teaching

Junior Honours Epistemology (Lecture)

Fall 2022

University of Glasgow: given with Prof. Christoph Kelp.

Introduction to Philosophy (Lecture)

2016 - 2022

Université de Fribourg: given as part of the Quali+ program in Philosophy.

Introduction to Epistemology (Lecture)

Fall 2020

Université de Fribourg.

On Certainty (Seminar)

Fall 2017

Université de Fribourg: given with Prof. Gianfranco Soldati.

Introduction to Epistemology (Seminar)

Spring 2016

Université de Genève: given with Michal Haldky.