Agency, Rationality and Epistemic Defeat (ARED) is an interdisciplinary research project on epistemic agency and rationality supported by UKRI through the Future Leaders Fellowship scheme.
It is a collaboration between philosophy, cognitive developmental psychology, and cognitive ethology hosted by the University of Stirling and the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.
The project aims to explore the origins of human rational thought by comparing how infants, dogs, and pigs form and revise their beliefs.