Spyridon Orestis Palermos

Field

Contemporary Philosophy

O.G.G. of Appointment
2170/05.09.2022/issue 3
Contact
Address:
Philosophy Department School of Philosophy University Campus PO Box 1186 PC 45500, Ioannina, Greece
Tel: 26510-05685
Email: sopalermos@uoi.gr
Curriculum vitae
Social

Spyridon Orestis Palermos is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina. He specialises in contemporary, analytic philosophy of mind and cognitive science, epistemology and philosophy of technology.

One of his main interests concerns the integration of humans with technology and the subsequent epistemological and ethical ramifications.

Before joining the University of Ioannina in 2022, he was Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) of Philosophy at Cardiff University, and prior to that Postgraduate Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Orestis frequently publishes articles and co-edits philosophical volumes for leading international journals and academic presses.

Studies
  • PhD: Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
  • MSc: Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
  • Undergraduate: Department of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
Research interests
  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Social Philosophy
  • Applied Ethics
Publications
Edited Volumes
  • Carter, J. A., Kallestrup, J., Palermos, S. O., Pritchard, D. (2018). Extended Epistemology. Oxford University Press.
  • Carter, J. A., Kallestrup, J., Palermos, S. O., Pritchard, D. (2018). Socially Extended Epistemology. Oxford University Press.
Papers
  • Palermos, S. O. (forthcoming). Data, Metadata, Mental Data? Privacy and the Extended Mind. AJOB: Neuroscience.
  • Palermos, S. O. (forthcoming). Responsibility in Epistemic Collborations: Is It Me, Is It the Group or Are We All to Blame? In Philosophical Issues special issue on Collective Epistemology. Greco, J. & Tollefsen, D. (eds.).
  • Palermos, S. O. (2022). Collaborative Knowledge: Where the Distributed and Commitment Models Merge. In Synthese special Issue on ‘New Directions in Social Epistemology.’ Carter, A. J & Kelp, C. (eds.). 200(1), 1-16.
  • Palermos, S. O. (2021). System Reliabilism and Basic Beliefs: Defeasible, Undefeated and Likely to Be True. Synthese. 199(3), 6733-6759.
  • Palermos, S. O. (2020). Epistemic Collaboration: Distributed Cognition and Virtue Reliabilism. Erkenntnis. DOI: 10.1007/s10670-020-00258-9
  • Palermos, S. O. (2018). Epistemic Presentism. Philosophical Psychology. Volume 31, Issue 3, pp. 458-478
  • Palermos, S. O. (2017). Social Machines: A Philosophical Engineering. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. Volume 16, Issue 5, pp 953–978
  • Carter, J. A. and Palermos, S. O. (2016). Epistemic Internalism, Content Externalism and the Subjective/Objective Justification Distinction. American Philosophical Quarterly.  Volume, 53 Issue, pp. 231-244
  • Carter, A. and Palermos, S. O. (2016). Is Having Your Computer Compromised a Personal Assault? The Ethics of Extended Cognition. The Journal of the American Philosophical Association. Volume 2, Issue 4, pp. 542-560.
  • Palermos, S. O. (2016). The Dynamics of Group Cognition. Minds and Machines. Volume 26, Issue 4, pp. 409-440
  • Palermos, S. O. (2016). Spreading the Credit: Virtue Reliabilism and Weak Epistemic Anti-Individualism. Erkenntnis. Volume, 81, Issue 2, pp. 305-334.
  • Palermos, S. O. (2015). Active externalism, virtue reliabilism and scientific knowledge. Synthese. Volume192, Issue 9, pp. 2955 – 2986
  • Palermos, S. O. (2015). Could Reliability Naturally Imply Safety?, European Journal of Philosophy. Volume, 23, Issue 4, pp. 1192–1208.
  • Carter, J. A., Gordon, E. Palermos, S. O. (2015). Extended Emotion. Philosophical Psychology. Volume 29 Issue, 2, pp. 198-217.
  • Palermos, S. O. (2014). Knowledge and cognitive integration. Synthese, Volume 191, Issue 8, pp. 1931-1951.
  • Carter, J. A., Kallestrup, J., Palermos, S. O.,  & Pritchard, D. (2014). Varieties of externalism. Philosophical Issues, Volume 24, Issue 1, pp. 63-109.
  • Palermos, S. O. (2014). Loops, Constitution, and Cognitive Extension, Cognitive Systems Research. Volume 27, pp. 25-41.
  • Palermos, S. O., Pritchard, D. (2013). Extended Knowledge and Social Epistemology. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Volume 2, Issue 8, pp. 105-120.
  • Palermos, S. O. (2011). Belief-Forming Processes, Extended, Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Volume 2, Issue 4, pp. 741-765.
Chapters in Volumes
  • Palermos, S. O. (2020). Bees Do It: Psychophysical Laws and Distributed Cognition. In Handbook for Distributed Team Cognition. McNeese, M., Salas, E., and Endsley, M. (eds.). CRC Taylor and Francis.
  • Palermos, S. O. and Tollefsen, D. (2018). Group Know-How. In Socially Extended Epistemology. J. Adam Carter, Andy Clark, Jesper Kallestrup, S. Orestis Palermos and Duncan Pritchard (eds.). Oxford University Press.
  • Carter, J. A., Clark, A. and Palermos, S. O., (2018). New Humans: Ethics, Trust and the Extended Mind.. In Extended Epistemology. J. Adam Carter, Andy Clark, Jesper Kallestrup, S. Orestis Palermos and Duncan Pritchard (eds.). Oxford University Press.
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