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Anna Mahtani is a Professor at LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. She went to Leeds University as an undergraduate to study English Literature, but discovered philosophy while there and switched her degree.
She went on to study at Oxford and Birkbeck before moving to Sheffield to write a PhD on the epistemic theory of vagueness. She then took up a British Academy post-doctoral position at Oxford, before moving to the LSE in 2013. In 2015, she won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She has published on a wide range of topics, including vagueness, imaginative resistance, formal epistemology, and welfare economics. In 2024 she published a book, The Objects of Credence, and she is currently working on problems of decision-making in cases of dementia.
Research Interests
- Dutch-book arguments
- Imprecise probabilities and Vagueness
- Intensional/extensional contexts
- The imagination and philosophy of fiction
- Contextualism and Moral uncertainty
- Welfare economics/distributive ethics
- Dementia and transformative experience