Ege Yumusak is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on how the social interacts with the psychological. Her current project concerns political disagreement—its material foundations, psychological and social manifestations, and epistemic properties. As a faculty fellow, she will be working on a theory of everyday political conflict. She has also examined questions concerning political language, social movements (e.g., the labor movement and feminism), and ideology. Her public writing has appeared in Boston Review, The Drift magazine, and The Point magazine.
Ege Yumusak
Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow
2025—2026 Forum on Truth
Ege Yumusak
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
The Epistemology of Everyday Political Conflict
This project consists of a series of papers and a book proposal that builds a theory of everyday political conflict. Everyday political conflict is challenging for epistemology because it blurs the distinctions between public and private realms, and social and individual epistemologies. This theoretical challenge makes the site of the everyday political conflict an exciting place from which we can theorize about truth, objectivity, intelligibility, reasonableness, and the breakdown of these potential epistemic common grounds. To tackle this problem, the project starts by asking: When does ‘seeing things a certain way’ commit one to an epistemic stance? When do differences of perspective generate conflict? To answer these questions, the project redraws the boundaries of what counts as an epistemic commitment and what counts as an epistemic divergence.