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.

Professor Winokur is willing to supervise Ph.D. students on several possible topics, many of which are listed below. Please contact him if you wish to propose a project of your own.

Epistemology

• The nature and sources of introspection, self-knowledge, self-consciousness, and/or self-expression
• The value and/or functions of introspection, self-knowledge, self-consciousness, and/or self-expression
• The relations between self-knowledge and self-expression
• First-person authority and privileged access
• Self-deception
• Topics in digital epistemology, such as: the epistemological functions and/or consequences of deepfakes, bots, and/or social media systems
• General topics in social epistemology, such as: the epistemology of testimony, epistemic injustice, pragmatic encroachment, moral encroachment, and knowledge of other minds
• Topics in “hostile” social epistemology, such as: epistemic manipulation, epistemic seduction, echo chambers, and conspiracy theories
• Davidsonian epistemology

Philosophy of Mind / Philosophical Psychology

• Self-deception
• The nature of mental state expression
• The extended mind theory
• The metaphysics of belief
• The metaphysics of inference/reasoning

Philosophy of Language

• Davidsonian philosophy of language
• The semantics of self-ascriptions

Metaphysics

• The ontological status of properties / abstract objects
• Personal identity (especially in the Parfitian tradition)

Metaethics

• The relationship between moral and epistemic normativity
• Normative error theory
• Davidsonian metaethics

Ph.D. from York University (Toronto)

MPhil. from Wilfrid Laurier University.

BPhil. from University of Waterloo.

Philosophical Writing and Methodology (MPhil; Fall 2023)

Introduction to Logic (MPhil; Winter 2024)

Critical Thinking (Undergraduate; Winter 2024)