Ian James Kidd

Ian James Kidd is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK. His academic work focuses on epistemology, particularly vice epistemology, epistemic injustice, and the relationship between epistemic vices and social oppression. He has co-edited significant volumes including Vice Epistemology and The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice, exploring how traits like intellectual arrogance and closed-mindedness hinder knowledge acquisition.

Kidd's research intersects ethics, social philosophy, and the epistemology of ignorance. He investigates how epistemic vices sustain systems of oppression and institutional failures, with contributions to applied philosophy in education and politics.