Mona Simion

Mona Simion is a philosopher. She is professor of philosophy at the University of Glasgow where she is also deputy director of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre. Simion's work focuses on issues in epistemology, ethics, the philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy.

Biography
Simion previously held positions at the University of Oslo's ConceptLab and at Cardiff University. She was promoted to professor four years after receiving her PhD in 2016.

Simion is a member of the executive committee of the Aristotelian Society, the management committee of BSTK – The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge, and the steering committee of the Social Epistemology Network. She is on the editorial board of The Philosophical Quarterly and the Asian Journal of Philosophy.

She is principal investigator of a long-term grant funded by the European Research Council entitled ‘KnowledgeLab: Knowledge First Social Epistemology” and Co-Investigator (with Adam Carter, PI and Christoph Kelp) on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project entitled ‘A Virtue Epistemology of Trust’.

Fellowships and awards
In 2018–2019, she held a Fellowship from the Mind Association for a project entitled ‘Epistemic Norms and Epistemic Functions’, and she won the Young Epistemologist Prize 2021 for her paper ‘Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe’.

Work
Simion's work focuses on issues in epistemology, ethics, the philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy.