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Yuto Watanabe

Research

Most of my work is about epistemic injustice and what it has to do with political freedom. My main argument is that being wronged as a knower isn't just a personal or moral problem. It's one of the things that lets people be dominated, because you can't push back against power if you're never believed or never really heard.

Interests

  • Epistemic injustice

    I work on the different ways people can be wronged as knowers, whether by not being believed or by not having the words to make sense of what's happened to them. What interests me most is the political side of this.

  • Political philosophy

    The intersection of political philosophy on domination and epistemic injustice.

  • Philosophy of language and mind

    How language means what it does, and how that shapes what we're able to think and say. Most of my reading here has been Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle.

Writing & publications

Education

  • 2026–presentMaster's in PhilosophyUniversität LeipzigBeginning October 2026.
  • 2022–2025BA PhilosophyUniversity of WarwickIndependent project on epistemic injustice and political freedom; Erasmus year at the University of Vienna.
  • 2015–2022A LevelsQueen Elizabeth's School, BarnetValedictorian, Class of 2022.