Associate Professor Markos Valaris

Markos Valaris is a philosopher working in the analytic tradition. His primary research interests include the philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy. Agency, rationality, and embodiment are themes running through Markos's work. Prior to joining UNSW in 2009, Markos earned his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. Before that, he studied computer science and electrical engineering in Athens, Greece. Partly because of this background, Markos is especially keen to investigate how work in AI puts pressure on concepts such as agency, understanding, reason, and personhood.

Markos's monograph Knowledge in Action is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Other selected publications include:

* "Knowledge and Agential Control: A non-reductive approach", Synthese 2025.

* "Evans on Transparency and Thinking of Oneself", in New Perspectives on Transparency and Self Knowledge (edited by Andreotta and Winokur), Taylor and Francis 2024.

* "Normality, Safety, and Knowledge", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2023.

* "Knowledge out of Control", The Philosophical Quarterly 2022.

* "Reasoning and Deducing", Mind 2019.

* "Attention and Synthesis in Kant's Conception of Experience" (with Melissa Merritt), The Philosophical Quarterly 2017.

* "What Reasoning Might Be", Synthese 2017.

* "Time Travel for Endurantists" (with Michaelis Michael), American Philosophical Quarterly 2016.