Anna-Sara Malmgren is a contemporary analytic philosopher specializing in epistemology, with a particular focus on the nature and structure of a priori justification. She is a professor at Stanford University, where her work examines the relationship between rational intuition, inference, and epistemic justification. Her research challenges both rationalist and empiricist assumptions about how a priori and a posteriori justification differ in kind versus degree.
Developed a nuanced account of a priori justification that resists assimilation to either pure rationalism or empiricism
Argued that a priori and a posteriori justification share structural features while remaining genuinely distinct in source
Contributed to debates on the role of intuitions as evidence in epistemology and philosophy of mind
Faculty at Stanford University, influencing analytic epistemology through teaching and research