Dr 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ°²×¿ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ°²×¿ 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)
