Quassim Cassam, FBA (born 31 January 1961)[1] is professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick.

[citation needed] Quassim Cassam was born in Mombasa, Kenya,[2] to a Gujarati Ismaili family.

He was a Kenyan citizen until the age of 18 but has spent most of his adult life in the U.K.[3] He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Keble College, Oxford[4] and was awarded an Oxford doctorate in 1985 for a dissertation on transcendental arguments.

In 2004 he held the John Evans Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois.

In recent times he has published work on epistemic vices and introduced the label 'vice epistemology' for the philosophical study of the nature and significance of epistemic vices such as closed-mindedness, overconfidence, dogmatism and wishful thinking [7] He is the author of six books: Self and World (Oxford, 1997), The Possibility of Knowledge (Oxford, 2007), Self-Knowledge for Humans (Oxford, 2014), Berkeley's Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us?