Jennifer Lackey

Jennifer Lackey
Lackey in 2010
Title
  • Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
  • Professor of Law (courtesy), Northwestern University
  • Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program
  • Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg
Academic background
Education
Doctoral advisorsErnest Sosa
Academic work
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
Main interestsSocial epistemology

Jennifer Lackey is an American academic; she is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Lackey is known for her research in epistemology, especially on testimony, disagreement, memory, the norms of assertion, and virtue epistemology. She is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge and of numerous articles and book chapters. She is also co-editor of The Epistemology of Testimony and The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays.

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