Dr. Jessie Munton

Biography

Jessie Munton is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Her core research areas include philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the philosophy of psychology. She enjoys thinking and writing about connections between philosophy and psychiatry. Munton's work has focused on attention and salience, exploring how to notice and prioritize information. Her book, 'Priority Prejudice: Epistemology, Salience, Attention', published by Oxford University Press, offers a framework for evaluating salience from an epistemic perspective, introducing the concept of salience structure and utilizing network theory to model the informational landscape. Additionally, she has been contemplating issues related to collective forgetting and the implications of social epistemology for the philosophy of mind. Her research includes a paper addressing the modal properties in visual perception, investigating how visual experience interacts with time and perceptual uncertainty. Munton supervises a group of PhD students and joined the University of Cambridge in 2018 after serving as a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College and a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at New York University for the 2017-2018 academic year. She completed her PhD at Yale University and holds a BPhil in philosophy and a BA in classics and philosophy from the University of Oxford. Munton has also spent time in legal training and research, focusing on capital punishment in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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