Andrei Bespalov is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy, supported by the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence grant CEX2021-001169-M (funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), and a member of the Law and Philosophy research group at Pompeu Fabra University.

He works on a project in political epistemology that interprets popular participation in spreading fake news and conspiracy theories as a form of epistemic disobedience. In this perspective, the proliferation of conspiratorial and fake news narratives in today’s public discourse is symptomatic of epistemic wrongs and related social and political injustices, for which their victims find no better, more straightforward and empirically adequate, ways of representation. He explores the moral, political, and legal implications of this philosophical hypothesis.

For further information, please visit Andrei’s personal website HERE.