Dr Natalie Ashton

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

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Email natalie.ashton@stir.ac.uk
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About me

I'm working at Stirling as part of the AHRC-funded project "Norms for the New Public Sphere". For the three years before this I worked on the ERC-funded project "The Emergence of Relativism" at the University of Vienna. For the three years before that I did my PhD at the University of Edinburgh.

Research

My research concerns the political and social aspects of epistemology - specifically the effects of oppression and power on epistemic justification. So far my work has focused on the theoretical side of things, exploring feminist standpoint theory, hinge epistemology, and epistemic relativism. In Stirling I'll be working on the practical implications of these views, investigating what their insights about epistemic justification tell us about organising institutions which produce and disseminate knowledge.

The most up-to-date record of my research outputs is likely here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/natalie-alana-ashton/publications

Outputs

Book Chapter

Scientific Perspectives, Feminist Standpoints, and Non-silly Relativism

Ashton NA (2020) Scientific Perspectives, Feminist Standpoints, and Non-silly Relativism. In: Crețu A & Massimi M (eds.) Knowledge from a Human Point of View. Synthese Library: Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 416. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 71-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27041-4_5

Book Chapter

Relativising Epistemic Advantage

Ashton N (2020) Relativising Epistemic Advantage. In: Kusch M (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism. Routledge Handbooks of Philosophy. London: Routledge, pp. 329-338. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Philosophy-of-Relativism-1st-Edition/Kusch/p/book/9781138484283

Article

Situating Feminist Epistemology

Ashton NA & McKenna R (2020) Situating Feminist Epistemology. Episteme, 17 (1), pp. 28-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.11

Article

Rethinking Epistemic Relativism

Ashton NA (2019) Rethinking Epistemic Relativism. Metaphilosophy, 50 (5), pp. 587-607. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12389

Article

The Case for a Feminist Hinge Epistemology

Ashton NA (2019) The Case for a Feminist Hinge Epistemology. Wittgenstein-Studien, 10 (1), pp. 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1515/witt-2019-0009

Book Review

Extended Rationality: A Hinge Epistemology

Ashton NA (2017) Extended Rationality: A Hinge Epistemology. Review of:
Annalisa Coliva, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Pp. xi + 221. ISBN 978-1-137-50188-2. The Philosophical Quarterly, 67 (266), pp. 169-171. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv122

Article

Undercutting Underdetermination-Based Scepticism

Ashton NA (2015) Undercutting Underdetermination-Based Scepticism. Theoria, 81 (4), pp. 333-354. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12076