Quassim Cassam was born in Mombasa, Kenya and educated at Keble College, Oxford. From 1986 to 2004 he taught Philosophy at Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of Wadham College. In 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2004 he held the John Evans Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois. He was Professor of Philosophy at University College London in 2005-6 and Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University in 2007-8.

Since 2009, Cassam has been Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University.

Current research

Cassam's recent work includes papers on a priori knowledge, a priori concepts, bodily awareness, the relationship between introspection

Introspection

Introspection is the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations. It is a conscious and purposive process relying on thinking, reasoning, and examining one's own thoughts, feelings, and, in more spiritual cases, one's soul...

 and perception

Perception

Perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs...

, space, transcendental epistemology, and the analysis of knowledge. His most recent book is called "The Possibility of Knowledge". Cassam has also done important work on self knowledge and on Kant

KANT

KANT is a computer algebra system for mathematicians interested in algebraic number theory, performing sophisticated computations in algebraic number fields, in global function fields, and in local fields. KASH is the associated command line interface...

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Books and papers

• The Possibility Of Knowledge Clarendon Press (2007)
• Can Transcendental Epistemology Be Naturalized? Philosophy 78 (2003)
• Representing Bodies Ratio 15 (2002)
• Self and World Oxford University Press, (1997)
• Self-Knowledge (Editor) Oxford University Press, (1994)