Katherine Furman BA(Hons), MSc, MA, PhD

katherine Furman is a Philosophy Lecturer at University College Cork (Assistant Professor), where she directs the MA in Health and Society. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy at Durham University, where she worked on the ‘Knowledge for Use’ project, mostly on topics of objectivity and causal inference. She completed her PhD in Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (passed without corrections, viva date 9 December 2016), supervised by Luc Bovens and Katie Steele, and examined by Philip Kitcher and Kai Spiekermann. Her PhD thesis was on HIV/AIDS denialism in South African health policy in the early 2000s. She used this as a case study to explore issues of reasonable belief formation in the face of seemingly contested science, and moral responsibility when that process goes wrong.