Welcome!

I am Carline. I am currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin, School of Philosophy.

 

Before that, I worked as a University Teacher at Utrecht University and as a Tutorial Lecturer at Eindhoven University of Technology. I've also worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne and as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Warwick. My research interests include voting ethics, democratic legitimacy, epistemic democracy, moral responsibility, social epistemology and epistemic justice.

 

In May 2023 I passed my Viva cum laude at the University of Genoa, where I conducted my PhD research with a scholarship from the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (curriculum: Ethics & Politics). The dissertation was entitled: 'When Citizens Don’t Know Whom to Believe: Failures in the Testimonial Exchange of Political Information and Its Implications for Epistemic Democracy’. I was  supervised by prof. Valeria Ottonelli (internal) and prof. Fabienne Peter (external). 

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My PhD project analyzes the challenges of contemporary public discourse from an applied (social-) epistemology perspective. More specifically, it looks at the role of testimony in deliberation, the effects of impaired testimonial exchange on democratic legitimacy, and the epistemic responsibilities of democratic citizens.

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