J. Adam Carter#
| Membership Number: | 7379 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/jadamcarter/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1222-8331 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/j.adam.carter |
| Publication Link: | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/jadamcarter/#publications |
Present and Previous Positions
- University of Glasgow
- 2023 - present Professor of Philosophy
- 2018 - presentCo-Director, COGITO Epistemology Research Centre
- 2020 - 2023 Reader in Epistemology
- 2017 - 2020 Lecturer in Epistemology
- University of Edinburgh
- 2013 - 2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Eindhoven University of Technology
- 2012 - 2013 Visiting Assistant Professor
- Queen’s University Belfast
- 2011 - 2012 Lecturer (fixed term)
- University of Geneva
- 2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Fields of Scholarship
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Action
Honours and Awards
- 2025 - 2030 PI on a 5-year European Research Council Advanced Grant KNOW-HOW: A new framework for theoretical and practical control across intelligence domains (EUR 2,480,625), which will run from October 2025
- 2026 - 2028 PI on a two year UKRI Cross Council grant "Navigating the Neural Frontier" (~£994,598)
- 2022 - 2026 PI on a 3-year research grant Digital Knowledge: A New Framework for Digital Epistemic Virtues (£980,602.20)
- 2020 Philosophical Quarterly Prize Essay Winner: The paper ‘De Minimis Normativism: A New Theory of Full Aptness’ (published 2021) won the prestigious Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize on the theme ‘Virtue Epistemology’
- 2019 Philosopher’s Annual selection: The paper ‘Technological Seduction and Self-Radicalisation’ was selected by the Philosopher’s Annual as one of the 10 best papers in all of philosophy in 2018
