I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Utrecht University, where I work within the ESDiT (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies) research programme. Before joining Utrecht, I was a Juan de la Cierva postdoc with the LOGOS group in Barcelona, and before that, a postdoc at the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow.
My research is mainly in epistemology. I keep coming back to questions about epistemic agency: what role our cognitive abilities play in what we know and what we are ignorant of, and how we exercise them when our thinking depends on other people and on technologies. These interests have taken me from developing a capacity-based account of ignorance to exploring how beliefs and judgments are influenced. I am also interested in whether our ideas about epistemic agency affect how we think and inquire. Alongside these interests, I continue to work on the philosophy of luck and Wittgensteinian hinge epistemology.
I completed my PhD as a Fulbright scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. I also hold an MA in Philosophy from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and a BA in Philosophy from the Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia).
You can email me here: o.a.piedrahita@uu.nl