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Anthony Booth is a Professor of Ethics and Epistemology at the University of Sussex's School of Media, Arts and Humanities. He holds a Ph.D. from Durham University (2006) and has held academic positions at institutions including Queen's University Belfast, Utrecht University, and UNAM. His research focuses on the ethics of belief, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and Islamic philosophy, with a particular interest in de-colonizing philosophical discourse. He co-led a 5-year, €1.3m project on applied epistemology and ethics (2013–2017), funded by NWO and collaborating with Groningen and Cambridge Universities. Booth is a founder of the Southern Normativity Group (SoNG), exploring normative theory intersections.
Research Interests:
- Normative ethics of belief, including Ash'arite voluntarism and Islamic moderate evidentialism
- Epistemic justification, fallibilism, and the Gettier problem
- Philosophy of mind: belief structure, alief, and doxastic voluntarism
- Political philosophy: Rawlsian liberal pluralism, public reason, and Islamic political legitimacy
- Applied ethics in finance and free expression
Grants & Projects:
- Trusting Banks Project (2013–2017): Investigating epistemic and ethical dimensions of financial trust
- Normativity and German Idealism grants (2015) from Hegel Society and UK Kant Society
His work bridges analytic philosophy with Islamic thought, emphasizing non-Orientalist engagement. He contributes to interdisciplinary debates through publications and serves as an external examiner at the University of Kent and Southampton.
