Overview

Contact Details

Telephone

work +44 (0)1224 272372

Email

f.luzzi@abdn.ac.uk

Address

The University of Aberdeen Old Brewery, OBG14

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Biography

I am a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. At Aberdeen I have taught courses in Logic, Applied Ethics and Philosophy of Language.

My research focuses on whether knowledge can arise from non-knowledge, particularly via inference and testimony. I am interested in in epistemology more broadly and in some issues in applied ethics and feminist philosophy.

I enjoy bringing Philosophy to wider audiences. In this connection, I coordinate several public engagement and outreach initiatives. These include Cafe' Philosophique, the departmental series of public engagement events; the Aberdeen Philosophy in Education Group (APEG), a training programme for Philosophy students to facilitate philosophy discussion in primary/secondary school classrooms; and the Philosophy with Children course, a biannual one-day Continuing Professional Development course for primary and secondary schoolteachers.

I carried out my doctoral studies at St Andrews and Aberdeen. Before that, I took my M.Litt. at St Andrews and my BA at Sheffield.

In my spare time I like to play football and walk my dogs.

 

Publications

'Testimonial Injustice Without Credibility Deficit (or Excess)' (forthcoming) Thought.

'Is Testimonial Knowledge Second-Hand Knowledge?' (forthcoming), Erkenntnis.

'What Does Knowledge-Yielding Deduction Require of Its Premises?' (2014), Episteme 11(3): 261-275.

'Contextualism and Counter-Closure' (2012), dialectica 66(1): 187-199.

'Interest-Relative Invariantism and Knowledge from Ignorance' (2012), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 93(1): 31-42.

'Counter-Closure' (2010), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88(4): 673:683.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Current teaching (2016/17)

PH1027 Controversial Questions

PH2535 Gender Equality

ED352C Professional Focus 2: Philosophy with Children

Past teaching

PH1010 Logic 1

PH1306 Logic 2

PH1019 Reason and Argument

PH2012 Philosophy of Language

Further Info

Admin Responsibilities

Co-Lead - Athena SWAN Self-Assessement Team - School of Divinity, History and Philosophy

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