Idowu Odeyemi
Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2023-24
Philosophy

Idowu Odeyemi is a philosophy Ph.D. Student at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. His theoretical works are interdisciplinary, mostly drawing from social and political philosophy, applied epistemology, and moral philosophy. Before coming to Boulder, Idowu completed a B.A. in Philosophy at Ekiti State University, Nigeria in 2021. In the summer of 2023, he will be attending the Open Student Workshop at the University of Oxford. Some awards that Idowu has received include the Beverly Sears Research Grant, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Graduate Diversity Fellowship, and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Graduate Dean’s Recruitment Fellowship, among others. His current research centers on bringing epistemology into a close dialogue with social theory, and moral philosophy. As such, he is investigating the propositional attitude that comes up when a hearer is unwilling to engage with epistemic virtue and understands that her lack of comprehension of the speaker’s testimony is not due to the speaker’s lack of epistemic credibility but her lack of access to the speaker’s cultural, social, and personal reality.