Andrei Bespalov

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy, supported by a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence grant CEX2021-001169-M (funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), and a member of the Law and Philosophy research group at Pompeu Fabra University.

I work on a project in political epistemology that interprets popular participation in spreading fake news and conspiracy theories as a form of epistemic disobedience. In this perspective, the proliferation of conspiratorial and fake news narratives in today’s public discourse is symptomatic of epistemic wrongs and related social and political injustices, for which their victims find no better, more straightforward and empirically adequate, ways of representation. I explore the moral, political, and legal implications of this philosophical hypothesis.

My other work focuses on theories of public reason and their possible policy applicactions. I developed this line of research as a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, a WIRL-COFUND Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study and Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and a PhD student in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University.