Former ELSCE Fellow Michael Hannon Publishes "Political Epistemology: An Introduction"

Former Fellow-in-Residence Michael Hannon, together with Elise Woodard, has published Political Epistemology: An Introduction (Routledge), a project he was working on during his time at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. The book investigates fundamental questions at the intersection of knowledge and politics, including truth, democracy, ignorance, bias, group identity, and polarization.

Michael Hannon is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Before that, he was Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy in London. He received his MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge and his BA from York University. His work investigates a variety of issues in epistemology and political philosophy, including the role of truth in politics, political empathy, identity-expressive discourse, skepticism, rationality, and the value of knowledge. In 2019, Oxford University Press published his first book, What's the Point of Knowledge? He also co-edited Political Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology (Routledge, 2021). Hannon was a 2022-2023 Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, where he pursued a project titled "Political Badmouthing: The Role of Dishonest Discourse in Politics."