Prof. Paul Boghossian, Ph.D.

Paul Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU's Philosophy Department, and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK. He is the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and the Director of NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Magdalen College (Oxford), the School of Advanced Study (UCL), and the Australian National University (Canberra).

Paul Boghossian’s research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He has written on a variety of topics, including color, rule-following, eliminativism, naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, realism, relativism, the aesthetics of music and the concept of genocide.

Among his publications are: Debating the A Priori (with Timothy Williamson), forthcoming with Oxford University Press; Content and Justification: Philosophical Papers, Oxford University Press, 2008; Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism, Oxford University Press, 2006, 2007.

Paul Boghossian is member of the CAS Research Group "Persuading under Uncertainty: Challenges and Norms of Science Communication" of Prof. Dr. Ophelia Deroy and a Visiting Fellow at CAS in November 2021.

On 10 November 2021 he will participate in the panel discussion "Trust in Science and the Problems of Fast Changing Evidence".