Maria Baghramian

Prof. Maria Baghramian is a Full Professor of American Philosophy and Adjunct Professor at University College Dublin's School of Philosophy, co-director of the UCD Postgraduate Programme in Cognitive Science (founded 2000), and holds a visiting position at the University of Oslo. She has held prestigious visiting roles at Harvard, MIT, and institutions in China, Armenia, and France. A leading scholar in epistemology, relativism, and expert disagreement, she co-leads the Horizon 2020 PERITIA project ($3M EU funding) addressing trust in expertise, and directs the 'When Experts Disagree' (WEXD) initiative.

Education: BA (Queen's University Belfast), PhD (Trinity College Dublin). Key research areas include epistemology, relativism, trust in science, and the ethics of disagreement. Her work bridges analytic and continental traditions, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration.

Major awards include Royal Irish Academy membership (2010), Academia Europaea election (2022), and the Irish Research Council's Researcher of the Year commendation (2022). She chairs panels for the Undergraduate Awards, advises the European Commission's SAPEA, and co-founded the Society for Women in Philosophy in Ireland.

Over 40 international conferences organized, with extensive editorial roles at journals like International Journal of Philosophical Studies. Current projects focus on science-policy interfaces, trust dynamics, and the ethics of disagreement in public discourse.