Simon Graf

Simon Graf is a Postdoctoral Fellow in philosophy at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (Chair of Philosophy and Decision Theory) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle and completed his PhD in 2024 at the University of Leeds, where he worked on the ERC-funded project Group Thinking: New Foundations. His research focuses on epistemology, collective epistemology, and philosophy of science.

Education: PhD in Philosophy, University of Leeds (2024); Postdoctoral research at Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (2024–present).

Research Interests: Collective epistemology, institutional beliefs, epistemic justification, and group rationality. He explores divergence arguments in collective epistemology, methodologies for assessing scientific consensus, and the role of defeaters in epistemic justification.

Key Contributions: His work includes analyzing group belief divergence, developing novel methodologies for scientific opinion surveys, and defending evidentialist theories against defeater challenges. His research bridges individual and collective epistemic frameworks, emphasizing the interplay between permissivism and group rationality.