bwinokur@um.edu.mo
Tel
(853) 8822 8232
Office
E21-4107
Consultation Hours
Mondays, 14:30-15:30
Wednesdays, 14:30-15:30
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, Spring 2025, Fall 2025)
Logic and Critical Thinking (MPhil; Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
Critical Thinking (UG; Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
Modern Western Philosophy (UG; Fall 2024, Spring 2026)
Professional Affiliations
2020-present ECOM Research Group (University of Connecticut)
2017-present American Philosophical Association
2014-present Canadian Philosophical Association
| 2026 | “Subordinative Obscurantism and Epistemic Manipulation.” Synthese, vol. 207, article 92: doi.org/10.1007/s11229-026-05462-8 |
| 2025d | “Charitable Interpretation and Self-Understanding.” Topoi, vol. 44: 1303- 1314. |
| 2025c | “Still Optimistic About First-Person Authority.” Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 50: 95-114. |
| 2025b | “Expressing What You Say: Neo-Expressivism and the Matching Problem.” Theoria, vol. 91 (5): 1-11. |
| 2025a | “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. |
2025 FAH Best Teacher Award
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