About me
I am a Professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. I also teach in SFU's Cognitive Science Program.
I have wide-ranging interests in philosophy, but most of my current research tends to focus on issues in social epistemology, on the cognitive underpinnings of language and communication, or in social and political philosophy.
My book Prejudice: A Study in Non-Ideal Epistemology was published by Oxford University Press in 2021 (paperback edition, 2022). I'm currently at work on a new project supported by the SSHRC, titled Belief Formation in Antagonistic Information Environments.
Please get in touch with me via email (endre.begby AT gmail.com) if you'd like to hear more about this project or any other thing I might be working on at this time.
Please click here for my CV, list of publications, downloadable pdfs, etc.
Recent news, upcoming events:
July 2026: Knowledge in Crisis Epistemology Conference in Vienna.
May 2026: Visiting Lima, Peru, for a multi-day event on my work.
April 2026: "Signal-to-Noise: Towards an Alternative Account of the 'Fake News' Phenomenon" now forthcoming. [Draft.]
March 2026: "From Pragmatist Anti-Metaphysics to Non-Ideal Epistemology" now out in Nordic Studies in Pragmatism.
March 2026: Giving commentary at Applied Epistemology in Times of Crisis, UNC-Chapel Hill
March 2026: In New York City to present at New Work in Philosophy of Language workshop.
February 2026: Defining Cognitive Science speaker series at SFU.