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Sarah Wright

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PROFESSOR
GRADUATE COORDINATOR FOR PHILOSOPHY
Social and Virtue Epistemology

Sarah Wright (PhD University of Arizona) focuses on epistemology with investigations into the normative aspects of epistemology as well as human reasoning about probability and preferences, and the limits that we as humans might face in such reasoning.

Research Interests:
  • Epistemology
  • Environmental Ethics
Selected Publications:

“Virtue Responsibilism” forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Virtue, Oxford University Press.

“Epistemic Authority, Epistemic Preemption, and the Intellectual Virtues.” Episteme, forthcoming.

“The Stoic Epistemic Virtues of Groups.” in Essays in Collective Epistemology, ed. Jennifer Lackey, Oxford University Press, 2014

“The Norms of Assertion and the Aims of Belief.” in Epistemic Norms: New Essays on Action, Belief, and Assertion, eds.Clayton Littlejohn and John Turri, Oxford University Press, 2014

“A Neo-Stoic Approach to Epistemic Agency.” Philosophical Issues (2013)

“Wisdom, Truth and the Stoics: How Boots Befooled The King.” Acta Analytica (2012)

“Hume on Testimony: A Virtue-Theoretic Defense,” History of Philosophy Quarterly (2011)

“Invasive Species and the Loss of Beta Diversity,” Ethics and the Environment (2011)

“Knowledge and Social Roles: A Virtue Approach,” Episteme (2011)

“Internalist Virtues and Knowledge,” Acta Analytica (2010)

“Virtue Epistemology and Contextualism,” Metaphilosophy Special Issue, Virtue and Vice: Moral and Intellectual (2010)

“The Proper Structure of the Intellectual Virtues,” Southern Journal of Philosophy (2009)

Articles Featuring Sarah Wright

Associate Professor Elizabeth Brient presented the keynote lecture, “The Infinite Sphere as Think Tank: Suspension (of the finite in the infinite/ of the infinite in the finite) as Meditative Praxis” at the…

Richard Winfield’s latest book, Rethinking the Arts After Hegel: From Architecture to Motion Pictures, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan this November.  

Professor Yuri Balashov gave a talk on "Harnessing the Power of Domain Adaptation" at the Annual Conference of the American Translators…

Professor Yuri Balashov continues his work on his project on human and machine translation.

Distinguished Research Professor, Richard Winfield published his twenty-third single-authored book, In Defense of Reason after Hegel: Why…

Edward Halper, Distinguished Research Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor published an opinion piece in the December 3, 2020 issue of the…

Events featuring Sarah Wright, Aaron Meskin
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Peabody Hall

The Department of Philosophy hosts the Spring 2022 Georgia Philosophical Society Conference on Friday and Saturday June 3 & 4 at Peabody Hall. Friday afternoon is the undergraduate…

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Peabody Hall

The Department of Philosophy hosts the Spring 2022 Georgia Philosophical Society Conference on Friday and Saturday June 3 & 4 at Peabody Hall. Friday afternoon is the undergraduate…

Fine Arts Building, Room 400

The Ethics Film Fest is a series of four film screenings taking place November 3-30  in conjunction with UGA's Ethics Awareness Week. All are invited to view films that raise ethical issues about Artificial Intelligence and technology. Select UGA faculty will introduce the films and facilitate a brief discussion afterwards. All screenings take place in room…

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