1. Quassim Cassam, was born on 31 January 1961 and is professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick.
11 Facts About Quassim Cassam
1. 2.
Quassim Cassam writes on self-knowledge, perception, epistemic vices and topics in Kantian epistemology.
3.
Quassim Cassam was born in Mombasa, Kenya, to a Gujarati Ismaili family.
4.
Quassim Cassam's parents and grandparents were all born in Kenya.
5.
Quassim Cassam's great grandparents were born in Gujarat, India, and emigrated to Kenya in the 1890s.
6.
Quassim Cassam was a Kenyan citizen until the age of 18 but has spent most of his adult life in the UK Quassim Cassam studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford and was awarded an Oxford doctorate in 1985 for a dissertation on transcendental arguments.
7.
From 1986 to 2004 Quassim Cassam taught philosophy at Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of Wadham College.
8.
Since 2009, Quassim Cassam has been a professor of philosophy at Warwick University.
9.
Quassim Cassam has been a president of the Aristotelian Society and a Mind Senior Research Fellow.
10.
On 22 July 2022, Quassim Cassam was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
11.
Quassim Cassam is the editor of Self-Knowledge and the author of the Self-Knowledge bibliography in Oxford Bibliographies Online.