Maryam Aghdami

I completed my PhD in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, in 2026, with a thesis titled Privileged Ignorance: From Epistemic Oppression to Epistemic Care. My research is in social and political epistemology, with a focus on feminist epistemology and the epistemology of ignorance. The thesis asks how well-intentioned inclusionary practices in progressive spaces can reproduce the very epistemic harms they set out to fight. I develop the idea of "privileged ignorance" to explain how good intentions and confidence in one's own ethical performance can still exclude marginalised voices, and I propose "spaces of epistemic care" as an alternative. My wider interests include epistemic injustices experienced by neurodivergent people and philosophical approaches to mental health. I am an Editorial Board Member at The Philosopher, and I worked for more than a decade as a journalist.