Jessie Munton

Jessie Munton is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at St John's College, where she serves as Director of Studies for Philosophy.

Research Interests: Professor Munton's work centers on epistemology and philosophy of mind, with significant contributions in negative epistemology (evaluating ignorance and forgetting), normative frameworks for attention and salience, philosophy of perception (including visual objects as modal property bundles and temporal structures of experience), and critical analysis of cognitive bias. She also explores philosophy of psychology/psychiatry and is authoring non-specialist essays on love and autonomy.

Awards:

• Philip Leverhulme Prize (2023) funding her current work on forgetting
• Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2022-2023) supporting her Oxford University Press book on attention

Academic Service: As Director of Studies at St John's College, she oversees undergraduate philosophy education. Her research methodology emphasizes collaborative discourse, actively inviting engagement from scholars working on related topics. Current projects include developing frameworks for evaluating epistemic lacunae and examining the philosophical foundations of visual perception.