Lani Watson

lani watson
Research Fellow, Associate Faculty Member
lani.watson@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

See personal webpage: https://www.philosophyofquestions.com/

See Theology Faculty webpage:  https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/lani-watson-0

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Membership Type:
2020-present

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford

2017-2020

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Edinburgh

2016-2017

Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing, University of Oklahoma

2015-2016

Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh

2011-2015

PhD Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

2010-2011

MSc Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
2004-2007 BA Philosophy, University of York

 

2022 (forth) Watson, L. The Role of Curiosity in Successful Collaboration. Scientia et Fides special issue edited by Aguinalde, I. and Vanney, C.
2022 (forth) Notess, S. and Watson, L. The Ethics of Media Interviewing: Asking good questions and listening to the answers. Routledge Handbook of Media Ethics edited by Fox, C. and Saunders, J.
2022 Watson, L. Cultivating Curiosity in the Information Age. Values and Virtues for a Challenging World edited by Palermos, O. and Webber, J. Cambridge University Press.
2022 Watson, L. The Social Virtue of Questioning: A Genealogical Account. Social Virtue Epistemology edited by Alfano, M., de Ridder, J. and Klein, C. New York: Routledge, 424-441.
2022

Watson, L. Cultivating Curiosity in the Contemporary University: How universities fall short of aspiration. The Promise of the University: Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope edited by Mahon, A. Springer., 119-132.
2022

Watson, L. How to arrive at questions: A response to Cordes. Asking and Answering edited by Cordes, M. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co., 176-182.
2021 

Watson, L. The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights And Why We Need Them. London: Routledge.
2021 

Watson, L. What is a Question. Philosophy, RIP Supplement 89: 273-297.
2020

Watson, L. Epistemic Rights in a Polarized World. Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge edited by Lynch, M. and Tanesini, A.
2020

Watson, L. Vices of Questioning in Public Discourse. The Routledge Handbook of Vice Epistemology edited by Battaly, H.
2020

Watson, L. ‘Knowledge is Power’: Barriers to Intellectual Humility in the Classroom. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Humility edited by Alfano, M, Lynch, M. and Tanesini, A., 439-450.
2019

Watson, L. Educating for Inquisitiveness: A Case Against Exemplarism for Intellectual Character Education. Journal of Moral Education 48(3): 303-315.
2019

Watson, L. Educating for Good Questioning as a Democratic Skill. The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology edited by Miranda Fricker, Peter J. Graham, David Henderson and Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen. New York: Routledge, 437-446.
2019

Watson, L. & Wilson, A. T., Review Essay: Exemplarist Moral Theory. Journal of Moral Philosophy 16: 755-767.
2018

Watson, L. Educating for Good Questioning: A Tool for Intellectual Virtues Education. Acta Analytica 33(3): 353-370.
2018

Watson, L. Systematic Epistemic Rights Violations in the Media: A Brexit Case Study. Social Epistemology 32(2): 88-102.
2018

Watson, L. Curiosity and Inquisitiveness. The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology edited by Heather Battaly. New York: Routledge.
2018

Watson, L. Educating for Curiosity. The Moral Psychology of Curiosity edited by Ilhan Inan, Lani Watson, Dennis Whitcomb and Safiye Yigit. Rowman & Littlefield, 293-310.
2016

Watson, L. Why Should We Educate For Inquisitiveness. Intellectual Virtues and Education: Essays in Applied Virtue Epistemology edited by Jason Baehr. New York: Routledge, 38-53.
2016

Watson, L. The Epistemology of Education. Philosophy Compass 11(3): 146-159.
2015 Watson, L. What Is Inquisitiveness. American Philosophical Quarterly 52(3): 273-288

 

My research focuses on questions and questioning. I work primarily in applied epistemology and practical ethics, including social and virtue epistemology, the ethics of technology, and the philosophy of education. I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, where I am conducting empirical and theoretical research examining the role that good and bad questioning plays in the 'technomoral ecosystem' of the technology sector, including in ethical decision-making, creative problem-solving, EDI, and effective leadership. My recent book is titled The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them (Routledge, 2021).