Biography:Veli Mitova

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Short description: South African philosopher
Veli Mitova
Education
  • Rhodes University (B.A 2000; M.A 2003)
  • Cambridge University (Ph.D., 2007)
AwardsRhodes University Postgraduate Scholarship, Fellow of the Commonwealth Society, British Academy Newton Fellow
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
ThesisDoxastic accountability: why we accept epistemic norms and how to be responsible believers (2007)
Doctoral advisorEdward Craig, Jane Heal, Simon Blackburn
Main interests
epistemology, moral epistemology, epistemic decolonisation

Veli Mitova is a South African philosopher, Professor in Philosophy and Director of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg.[1] She is known for her work on epistemic decolonisation and reasons for belief, in particular her view truthy psychologism.[2][3][4][5][6]

Books

  • Believable Evidence, Veli Mitova, Cambridge University Press, 2017
  • The Factive Turn in Epistemology, Veli Mitova (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2018

References

  1. "African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science" (in en-ZA). https://www.uj.ac.za/aceps. 
  2. Dewhurst, Tess (4 May 2019). "Believable Evidence". Philosophical Papers 48 (2): 321–325. doi:10.1080/05568641.2019.1616605. ISSN 0556-8641. 
  3. Eslami, Seyyed Mohsen (3 April 2018). "The long way to "extreme psychologism"". South African Journal of Philosophy 37 (2): 171–177. doi:10.1080/02580136.2018.1441644. ISSN 0258-0136. 
  4. "Prof Velislava Mitova". https://www.uj.ac.za/newandevents/Documents/2018/Prof%20Velislava%20Mitova.pdf. 
  5. Whiting, Daniel (21 August 2018). "Review of The Factive Turn in Epistemology". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617. https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-factive-turn-in-epistemology/. 
  6. Gregory, Alex (29 April 2012). "Review of Reasons for Belief". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617. https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/reasons-for-belief/. 

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