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Miloud Belkoniene

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About Me

I am a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. My research focuses mostly on the debate concerning the nature and epistemology of understanding. My present aim is to offer a unified picture of the relation between understanding, knowledge and epistemic justification in light of an explanationist account of epistemic justification.

While my current work concerns primarily core issues in epistemology, I am interested in issues related to normativity more generally. Some of my present projects are thus related to practical rationality and philosophy of action and I have growing interests in philosophy of language and in philosophy of mind.

In addition, I am a member of the Experience and Reason research group based in Fribourg (CH), of the Epistemology Research Group (GRE) based at College de France and of the Cogito research group based at the University of Glasgow.

Research

Articles

  • Acting Upon Uncertain Beliefs" (with Patryk Dziurosz-Serafinowicz). Acta Analytica, Forthcoming. (link to article) (pdf)
  • Why Explanatory Considerations Matter. Erkenntnis, Forthcoming. (link to article)
  • 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)

PhD Dissertation

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

Projects

Explanationism and Understanding (with Kevin McCain)

In this paper, we show to what extent an explanationist account of epistemic justification allows offering an interesting conception of understanding which sheds light on the connection between understanding and rationality.

Knowledge and Explanations

In this paper, I offer an explanationist account of knowledge which, I argue, is superior to the previous accounts of this sort that have been offered in the literature. This account of knowledge is discussed in relation to Gettier-style cases and to skeptical paradoxes.

Teaching

Epistemology course
Sept. 2020 - present

Université de Fribourg: course "Introduction à l'épistémologie".

Quali+ Program
Sept. 2016 - present

Université de Fribourg: courses within the Quali+ program in philosophy for non-philosophy students.

Epistemology seminar
Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2017

Université de Fribourg: seminar "On Certainty" in collaboration with Prof. Gianfranco Soldati.

Epistemology seminar
Feb. 2016 - May 2016

Université de Genève: seminar "TP d'introduction à l'épistémologie" in collaboration with Michal Haldky.