Jessica Brown

Jessica Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She researches epistemology, philosophical responsibility and methodology. Her main publications include Anti-Individualism and Knowledge, Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge (2018) and Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents (2024).

Education and career Jessica Brown received her PhD at Oxford University. She is a Professor of Philosophy in the Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology at the University of St Andrews.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018.

Research Brown's interests are on epistemology, more precisely on contextualism, invariantism and pragmatic encroachment.

Selected works

Brown, J. (2004) Anti-Individualism and Knowledge. Cambridge: MIT Press. Brown, J. & Gerken, M. (Eds.). (2012). Knowledge Ascriptions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brown, J. (Ed.). (2011). Assertion: New Philosophical Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brown, J. (2018). Fallibism: Evidence and Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brown, J. (2024). Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents. Oxford: Oxford University Press.