About
Puneh Nejati-Mehr is a LAHP (AHRC)-funded PhD student with primary interests at the intersections of epistemology (formal and social), the philosophy of action (action and decision theory), and the philosophy of language. Her research also often extends into adjacent areas in the philosophy of mind, probability, and metaethics—though she is also independently interested in questions within these areas beyond these intersections.
Currently, she is working on the nature and norms of first- and second-order propositional attitudes (esp. attitudes toward chance/uncertainty, self-predictive propositions) that underpin rational reasoning under uncertainty, both theoretical and practical. She also likes to explore these questions closely linked to descriptive and normative issues arising from temporally extended agency within orthodox theories of rational decision-making (esp. intentions/plans, difficult or temporally extended action). For instance, she is interested in whether plans/intentions or temporally extended acts can bear on how a rational agent treats (self-predictive) chance-propositions in her reasoning and how this might be represented in the agent’s decision-making.
Before joining LSE, she earned both her MA in Philosophy and BA in Philosophy with a minor in German Linguistics and Literature from Humboldt University of Berlin. During her MA, she also spent a year abroad studying at the University of St Andrews (SASP) and the University of Leeds.
At LSE, she co-convenes the Choice Group Seminar series and co-organises our department’s MAP activities.
Research Interests
- Epistemology (formal, social)
- Action and decision theory
- Philosophy of language