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.
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
