Quassim Cassam

Quassim Cassam, born in Mombasa, Kenya, on January 31, 1961, is a contemporary British philosopher, currently serving as a professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick and an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford. He previously held a visiting professorship at Sorbonne University. His academic work spans diverse areas including extremism, terrorism, self-knowledge, perception, epistemic vices, and Kantian epistemology. Cassam earned his doctorate in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from Keble College, Oxford, with a dissertation on transcendental arguments. His career includes teaching philosophy at Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of Wadham College, and visiting professorships at various institutions like the University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern University. He also held the position of Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University. Cassam has been recognized for his contributions, receiving a Leadership Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and serving as president of the Aristotelian Society. In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). He has authored seven books, with "Self and World," "The Possibility of Knowledge," "Self-Knowledge for Humans," "Vices of the Mind," and "Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis" being among his significant publications. He has also edited works and contributed to bibliographies in his field.