Velislava A. Mitova
Institut für Philosophie
Universitätsstrasse 7
A-1010 Wien
Österreich
velislava.mitova@univie.ac.at
cartoon by Saul Steinberg, The New Yorker 1965
I obtained my PhD from Cambridge in 2007. My supervisors were Edward Craig, Jane Heal, and Simon Blackburn; my examiner was Jonathan Dancy. My PhD concerned the source of epistemic normativity and the nature of epistemic responsibility. Between 2007 and 2009 I was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in philosophy at Rhodes University, South Africa, and a postdoc at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, México, D.F. At the moment I am a postdoc researcher at Martin Kusch's Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology unit, Vienna University.
Current Project
I am working on forging a metaethics of belief from the unexplored angle of how epistemic normative judgements motivate our beliefs. (This is to transfer to epistemology the inveterate metaethics fight between Humeans and anti-Humeans about motivation.) The plan is to let a stance on epistemic motivation settle loftier metaethics-of-belief questions, such as whether epistemic normative judgements are cognitive in nature, and whether the norms featuring in them are non-hypothetical.
Areas of Specialisation
Epistemology, Normative Epistemology, Metaethics, Practical Reason.
Areas of Competence
Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of: Mind, Emotions, Language, Literature.
Languages
In descending order of fluency: English, Bulgarian, Spanish, French, German, Russian.
Publications
Articles:
· Epistemic motivation: towards a metaethics of belief. Reasons for Belief, edited by Andrew
Reisner and Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (CUP), 2011.
· La Normatividad de la Creencia (translated by M. Fernandez). Valores Epistémicos, edited by M. Fernandez and M. Valdés (México: IIFs-UNAM), 2011. english version
· A quasi-pragmatist explanation of our ethics of belief. Teorema, 28(3): 113-130, 2009.
· Why W. K. Clifford was a closet pragmatist. Philosophical Papers, 37(3): 471-489, 2008.
· Why pragmatic justifications of epistemic norms don’t work. South African Journal of
Philosophy, 27(2): 141-152, 2008.
· The Value of Epistemic Norms. South African Journal of Philosophy, 24(2): 65-76, 2005.
In progress:
· ‘The normativity of the mental and the need for a theory of epistemic motivation’
· ‘Doxastic Responsibility’
· ‘Investigative actions as an epistemic duty’
Courses taught
· ‘The value of knowledge’, Wien, 2010.
· ‘Epistemic agency’, Wien, 2010.
· ‘The sources of epistemic normativity’, Wien, 2009/2010.
· ‘Epistemic Justification’, Wien, 2009/2010.
· ‘Las fuentes de la normatividad epistémica’, UNAM, México, 2009.
· ‘Ethics and Practical Reason’ Rhodes University, South Africa, 2008.
· ‘Norms, Reasons, Oughts’, Rhodes, 2007.
· ‘The Value of Epistemic Norms’, Philosophy Tripos 1B, Cambridge, UK, 2006.
· ‘Literature and Ethics’, Rhodes, 2003.
· Philosophy Writing Course, Rhodes, 2002-3.)
Epistemology, Normative Epistemology, Metaethics, Practical Reason.
Areas of Competence
Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of: Mind, Emotions, Language, Literature.
Languages
In descending order of fluency: English, Bulgarian, Spanish, French, German, Russian.
Publications
Articles:
· Epistemic motivation: towards a metaethics of belief. Reasons for Belief, edited by Andrew
Reisner and Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (CUP), 2011.
· La Normatividad de la Creencia (translated by M. Fernandez). Valores Epistémicos, edited by M. Fernandez and M. Valdés (México: IIFs-UNAM), 2011. english version
· A quasi-pragmatist explanation of our ethics of belief. Teorema, 28(3): 113-130, 2009.
· Why W. K. Clifford was a closet pragmatist. Philosophical Papers, 37(3): 471-489, 2008.
· Why pragmatic justifications of epistemic norms don’t work. South African Journal of
Philosophy, 27(2): 141-152, 2008.
· The Value of Epistemic Norms. South African Journal of Philosophy, 24(2): 65-76, 2005.
In progress:
· ‘The normativity of the mental and the need for a theory of epistemic motivation’
· ‘Doxastic Responsibility’
· ‘Investigative actions as an epistemic duty’
Courses taught
· ‘The value of knowledge’, Wien, 2010.
· ‘Epistemic agency’, Wien, 2010.
· ‘The sources of epistemic normativity’, Wien, 2009/2010.
· ‘Epistemic Justification’, Wien, 2009/2010.
· ‘Las fuentes de la normatividad epistémica’, UNAM, México, 2009.
· ‘Ethics and Practical Reason’ Rhodes University, South Africa, 2008.
· ‘Norms, Reasons, Oughts’, Rhodes, 2007.
· ‘The Value of Epistemic Norms’, Philosophy Tripos 1B, Cambridge, UK, 2006.
· ‘Literature and Ethics’, Rhodes, 2003.
· Philosophy Writing Course, Rhodes, 2002-3.)
