bwinokur@um.edu.mo
Tel
(853) 8822 8232
Office
E21-4107
Consultation Hours
PHIL1002: Mondays, 14:30-15:30 and Thursdays, 16:00-17:00
PHIL7000: Mondays, 15:30-16:30 and Thursdays, 17:00-18:00
Benjamin Ian WINOKUR
Introduction
Professor Benjamin Winokur brings his expertise in various Western philosophical topics to his teaching at the University of Macau. Prior to joining the University of Macau, Benjamin taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University, as an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at York University, and as an Adjunct Professor of Business Analytics at Seneca College. He specializes in contemporary analytic epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. His main research projects address questions about the nature and value of self-knowledge, as well as miscellaneous questions concerning the epistemology of the internet and the epistemology of inquiry.
Education
Ph.D. from York University (Toronto)
MPhil. from Wilfrid Laurier University.
BPhil. from University of Waterloo.
Courses Taught
Philosophical Writing and Methodology (MPhil; Fall 2023 and Spring 2025)
Logic and Critical Thinking (MPhil; Spring 2024 and Fall 2024)
Critical Thinking (Undergraduate; Spring 2024 and Spring 2025)
Modern Western Philosophy (Undergraduate; Fall 2024)
Professional Affiliations
2020-present ECOM Research Group (University of Connecticut)
2017-present American Philosophical Association
2014-present Canadian Philosophical Association
2025 “Inquiring for Yourself for Others.” Episteme doi.org/10.1017/epi.2024.27https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2024.27
2024a “Extended Mentality and Ascriptive Authority.” Synthese, vol. 204, article
18, pp. 1-20.
2023c “Inferential Self-Knowledge Reimagined.” Philosophical Psychology, doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2263480
Forthcoming “Self-Knowledge and Interpersonal Reasoning.” Dialectica, ~8900 words.
2023b “Authority As (Qualified) Indubitability.” Inquiry, doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2023.2224543
2023a “How to Commit to Commissive Self-Knowledge.” European Journal of Philosophy, doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12862
2022c “Bots: Some Less Considered Epistemic Problems.” Social Epistemology, vol. 37 (5): 713-725.
2022b “There is Something to the Authority Thesis.” Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 47: 115-132.
2022a “Authoritatively Avowing Your Imaginings by Self-Ascriptively Expressing Them.” Philosophical Explorations, vol. 26 (1): pp. 23-29.
2021c “Davidson, First-Person Authority, and Direct Self-Knowledge.” Synthese, vol. 199 (5-6): pp. 13421-13440.
2021b “Inference and Self-Knowledge.” Logos & Episteme, vol. 12 (1): pp. 77-98.
2021a “Critical Reasoning and the Inferential Transparency Method.” Res Philosophica, vol. 98 (1): pp. 23-42.
2021 York Faculty of Graduate Studies Thesis and Dissertation Prize (nominee)
2019 Graduate Fellowship of Distinction in Philosophy
2017 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2014 Kitty and Lou Newman Memorial Graduate Scholarship