Anna Mahtani

Anna Mahtani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She completed her PhD on the Epistemic Theory of Vagueness at the University of Sheffield in 2005, followed by a British Academy Postdoc at the University of Oxford before joining LSE in 2013.

Her research spans formal epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of language, and welfare economics. Key areas include:

• Vagueness and credence: Exploring supervaluationism and imprecise probabilities
• Rationality constraints: Dutch book arguments, Pareto principles, and Reflection principles
• Epistemic dynamics: Awareness growth, deference, and updating mechanisms
• Philosophical economics: Designator-dependence in welfare analysis

Her publications focus on Bayesian epistemology, probability formalisms, and ethical decision-making. Recent works analyze credence instability, opaque propositions, and the interplay between linguistic vagueness and probabilistic reasoning.

Awards:

• Philip Leverhulme Prize (2014)

Professional service includes editorial roles for PhilPapers and The Reasoner, council membership at the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and committees for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.