Welcome! I'm an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Bentley University. I work in epistemology, with a focus on the norms of inquiry and the relationship between inquiry and injustice. I co-founded and help to organize the Inquiry Network work-in-progress series.
I received my PhD in Philosophy from Brown University, where I also obtained a Doctoral Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I was a first-generation college student, and I'm currently organizing a pilot mentorship program for first-generation students at Bentley University.
I grew up in Mississauga, ON, and I have two cats, Bean and Ghost, and two dogs, Sammy and Porcco (one of whom was named after the main character in this Hayao Miyazaki anime).
Here is my CV.
Email: afalbo [at] bentley [dot] edu
Publications
As Editor
- Inquiry for the Mistaken and Confused, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Forthcoming.
- The Zetetic, Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd Edition, Edited by J. Dancy, E. Sosa, M. Steup, and K. Sylvan, Forthcoming.
- Hermeneutical Injustice, Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd Edition, Edited by J. Dancy, E. Sosa, M. Steup, and K. Sylvan, Forthcoming.
- Belonging and Estrangement: Supporting First-Generation and Low-Income Students in Academic Philosophy, American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy, co-authored with Heather Stewart, Forthcoming.
- Should Epistemology Take the Zetetic Turn?, Philosophical Studies (2023).
- Featured on New Work in Philosophy
- Inquiring Minds Want to Improve, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2023).
- Featured Interview on Faculti
- Hermeneutical Injustice: Distortion and Conceptual Aptness, Hypatia (2022).
- Est-ce que vous compute? Code-switching, Cultural Identity, and AI, Feminist Philosophical Quarterly, Co-authored with Travis LaCroix. Special Issue: Feminism, Social Justice, and Artificial Intelligence, Edited by Carla Fehr, (2022).
- Inquiry and Confirmation, Analysis (2021).
- Slurs, Neutral Counterparts, and What You Could Have Said, Analytic Philosophy (2021).
- Fitting in is human: forcing someone to fit in is oppression, Aeon+Psyche Magazine (2021).
- Spitting Out the Kool-Aid: A Review of Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2018).
- Analyzing the Wrongfulness of Lying: A Defence of Pluralism, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie (2017).
As Editor
- Special Issue: Outsiders Within: Reflections on Being a Low-Income and/or First-Generation Philosopher, APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (Spring 2021) with Heather Stewart.
Courses Taught:
At Bentley University
At Brown University
At The University of Texas at Austin, Corrupt the Youth: Summer Philosophy Program
At Bentley University
- Should life be a game? Gamification and Human Values (Fall 2024)
- Inquiry and Injustice (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
- Theories of Knowledge (Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024)
- Feminist Philosophy (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
- Environmental Ethics (Fall 2022)
At Brown University
- Feminist Philosophy (Spring 2021)
- Critical Reasoning (Summer 2019)
- Nevertheless, She Persisted: Issues in Feminist Philosophy, Pre-College (Summer 2020, 2021)
- Moral Philosophy: Trust, Lies, Deception, and Conspiracy, Pre-College (Summer 2019, 2020, 2021)
At The University of Texas at Austin, Corrupt the Youth: Summer Philosophy Program
- Moral Philosophy (Summer 2019)
- Critical Reasoning (Summer 2019)
