Departmental homepageDr Munton completed her graduate studies at the University of Oxford (BPhil 2011) and Yale University (PhD 2017). She was a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at New York University for a year before coming to Cambridge in 2018 as a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, and joining the Faculty of Philosophy as an Assistant Professor in 2019.
She lectures and supervises for the undergraduate Philosophy Tripos on a variety of topics in philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. She supervises MPhil students on projects across a wide range of areas of philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of psychology and cognitive science (including interdisciplinary work). She supervises PhD students who work in her core areas of research.
Dr Munton's core areas of research are philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of psychology. In particular, she has published papers on a wide range of topics in philosophy of perception, and on philosophical questions arising from the nature of bias and prejudice. She is currently finishing up on a book on the epistemology of salience and attention, and is starting to write about the nature of forgetting, and its epistemic significance.
‘How to See Invisible Objects’. Noûs, 56: 343– 365 nous.12360. (2021)
‘IV—Lost in (Modal) Space: Demographic Base-Rate Neglect in the Service of Modal Knowledge’. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 123 (1): 73–96. (2023)
‘Prejudice as the Misattribution of Salience’. Analytic Philosophy 64 (1): 1–19. (2023) Winner of the Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Mind.
‘Answering Machines: How to (Epistemically) Evaluate a Search Engine’. Inquiry 0 (0): 1–29. (forthcoming)
