Eleanor Gwynne

Contact: ejg2g10@soton.ac.uk, eleanorjanegwynne@gmail.com

Website: eleanorgwynne.weebly.com

Areas of Specialisation and Competence

AOS: Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind (Esp. Self-Knowledge, Self-Deception, Rational Agency)
AOC: Ethics, Early Modern Rationalists and Empiricists

Education

University of Southampton

2015 - 2020
PhD Philosophy, ‘Transparency and Doxastic Self-Knowledge’ – Passed without corrections
Viva Examiners: Dr Jonathan Way (Internal), Dr Johannes Roessler (University of Warwick)
Supervisors: Dr Conor McHugh (University of Southampton), Dr James Stazicker (King’s College London)

2013-14
MA Philosophy – Distinction
Dissertation: ‘Self-Deception as a Failure of Self-Knowledge’
Supervisor: Dr Conor McHugh

2010-13
BA Film and Philosophy – First Class Honours

Papers

Under review:
‘Judgment as Mental Action: A Phenomenological Defence’
‘The Uniqueness Problem for Transparent Self-Knowledge’

In progress:
‘What We Owe to Good Informants: The Vice of Epistemic Prudence’
‘Non-Doxastic Attitudinal Akrasia’

Talks

Postponed due to COVID-19, originally scheduled for April 2020

Catherine Elgin Graduate Workshop, Birkbeck University of London. Title of talk: ‘What We Owe to Good
Informants: The Vice of Epistemic Prudence’

November 2019 – Brown University 13th Annual Mark L. Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference. Title of talk:
‘Judgment as an Exercise of Epistemic Agency: A Phenomenological Defence’

September 2018 – Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy. Title of talk: ‘The Uniqueness Problem
for Transparent Self-Knowledge’

August 2018 – Open Minds XIII Graduate Conference, University of Manchester. Title of talk: ‘The Uniqueness
Problem for Transparent Self-Knowledge’

October 2017 – Self-Deception: What it is and what it is worth, University of Basel. Title of talk: ‘Error About
Oneself in Self-Deception’

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Funding Awards

2015-2018
AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship (Tuition and Living Stipend): ~£70,000

2018-2019
Royal Institute of Philosophy Bursary: £3000

2017
Workshop funding (‘Responsibility for Attitudes’ Workshop):
Mind Association Minor Grant: £600
Aristotelian Society Grant: £407.43

2017
Accommodation bursary, ‘Self-Knowledge and Rational Agency’ Conference, St. Hilda’s College Oxford

Teaching

Tutorial Leader, University of Southampton

This role involved leading discussion groups and providing written and verbal feedback on student essays,
including awarding final essay grades.

2017-18
PHIL1002 Knowledge and Mind (Early Modern Rationalists)
PHIL1005 Ethics

2015-16
PHIL1005 Ethics

2016
Contributed to the following writing guides for the University of Southampton Writing Centre:

‘Conducting a Literature Review’

‘Paraphrasing’
‘Writing the Dissertation’

Administration

26th June 2017

Organiser: ‘Responsibility for Attitudes’ Workshop, University of Southampton
Event Website: https://responsibilityforattitudesworkshop.weebly.com/

October 2017 - January 2018

Organiser: Reading group on Cavell’s Pursuits of Happiness, University of Southampton

Group Participation

2015-2019: Normativity Group, University of Southampton

2017: Institutional Reading Group, University of Southampton
2016: Autumn Graduate Class on Self-Knowledge, University of Reading

References available on request