Dr. Simon Graf

Personal information

Since January 2025, I have been a research associate at the Chair of Philosophy and Decision Theory. Before joining the MCMP, I was a research fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle were I was working on the topic of "epistemic conflicts". In 2024 I received my PhD from the University of Leeds (UK) as PhD-researcher affiliated with the ERC-funded project "Group Thinking: New Foundations" on contemporary issues in social ontology and collective epistemology.

Research interests

My current research focus lies in epistemology, especially the intersection between collective and social epistemology. I am also interested in various related epistemological questions in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and decision theory.

Selected publications

• Graf, Simon (forthcoming). The No-Defeater Clause. Episteme.
• Vickers, Peter,… Graf Simon,… (2024). Development of a Novel Methodology for Ascertaining Scientific Opinion and Extent of Agreement. PLoS ONE, 19 (12).
• Wang, Cuizhu, Graf, Simon, & Konrad, Werner (forthcoming). An Operational Definition of Institutional Beliefs. In Dyrda Adam et al. (Eds.) Ethics of Institutional Beliefs: from Theoretical to Empirical. Edward Elga Publishing.
• Graf, Simon (2023). Permissive Divergence. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 53 (3), 240-255.
• Graf, Simon (2021). The Epistemology of Groups by Jennifer Lackey. [Book Review] Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy (9), 380-387.