Quassim Cassam

Quassim Cassam was born in Mombasa, Kenya and educated at Keble College, Oxford. He completed his D. Phil. in 1985 and, a year later, was elected to an Official Fellowship in Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. In 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2004 he held the John Evans Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois. In 2005-07, he was professor of philosophy at University College, London.

Since 2007, Professor Cassam has been Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

Current research

Cassam's recent work includes papers on a priori knowledge, a priori concepts, bodily awareness, the relationship between introspection and perception, space, transcendental epistemology, and the analysis of knowledge. His most recent book is called "The Possibility of Knowledge". Cassam has also done important work on self knowledge and on Kant.

Books and papers

* "The Possibility Of Knowledge" Clarendon Press (2007)
* "Can Transcendental Epistemology Be Naturalized?" Philosophy 78 (2003)
* "Representing Bodies" Ratio 15 (2002)
* "Self and World" Oxford University Press, (1997)
* "Self-Knowledge" (Editor) Oxford University Press, (1994)