Charles Côté-Bouchard
I am a tenured philosophy techer at Montmorency College (Laval, QC, Canada). I am also the francophone editor of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review. I am occasionally a lecturer in philosophy at UQÀM.
Previously, I was a SSHRC postdoc at UdeM, the GRIN postdoc, and an FRQ postdoc at Rutgers University. I was also a lecturer at Carleton University, UdeM, and Rutgers.
I received my Ph. D. in philosophy from King's College London in 2017.
I specialize in epistemology. My research is mainly about metaepistemology (especially the normativity of epistemology), and applied epistemology (especially the epistemology of the Web). See the research section for details.
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Journal articles
Should we Trust Our Feeds? Social Media, Misinformation, and the Epistemology of Testimony
Topoi, 2024.
Is Epistemic Normativity Value-Based?
Winner CPA Essay prize, non-tenured faculty - Dialogue, 2017
Can the Aim of Belief Ground Epistemic Normativity
Philosophical Studies, 2016.
Epistemic Instrumentalism and the Too Few Reasons Objection
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2015
The Motivation Problem of Epistemic Expressivists
Co-author: Alexandre Duval. Ergo, 2023.
Epistemic Consequentialism, Veritism, and Scoring Rules
Co-author: Marc-Kevin Daoust. Erkenntnis, 2023.
Two Types of Epistemic Instrumentalism
Synthese, 2021.
'Ought' Implies 'Can' Against Epistemic Deontologism: Beyond Doxastic Involuntarism
Synthese, 2019.
Epistemological Closed Questions: A Reply to Greco
Manuscrito, 2017.
Other publications
Knowledge, Reasons, and Errors About Error Theory
Co-author: Clayton Littlejohn. In Metaepistemology: Realism and Anti-Realism. Eds. C. Kyriacou & R. McKenna, 2018.
Dans Sapere aude? Regards historiques et critiques sur l’éthique intellectuelle des Lumières. Dir : G. St-Laurent, M.-M. Blondin et Charles Côté-Bouchard, 2025.
La société des fausses nouvelles (Review ofThe misinformation Age, O'Connor and Weatherall)
La Vie des Idées, 2020.
L'encyclopédie philosophique, 2019.
Current and recent teaching
Philosophie et rationalité (Montmorency - Spr 2026)
Jeux vidéo et philosophie (Montmorency - Fall 2025)
PHI 4214 La philosophie analytique (UQAM - Spr 2025)
Philosophie et rationalité (Montmorency - Spr 2025)
Éthique et politique (Montmorency - Fall 2024)
Recent and upcoming talks
La philosophie morale moderne d’Anscombe face à la métanormativité contemporaine. Journée d’étude sur G.E.M. Anscombe, Université Laval, Juin 2026,
Social Epistemic Constitutivism. ZEGRa Speaker Series, University of Zurich, Dec 2025
Le constitutivisme épistémique au-delà de la croyance Séminaire de métaéthique, Université de Rennes, Déc 2025
Epistemic Contitutivism Beyond Belief. Constitutivism in Ethics and Epistemology, University of Lisbon, Sept 2025.
De Hume à YouTube : les idéaux cognitifs des Lumières face à la pollution épistémique en ligne. Séries de conférences Organon, UQTR, Mar 2024.
charles.cote79[at]gmail.com