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Idowu Odeyemi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. His research and teaching centers on epistemology, moral philosophy, and social and political philosophy. He is an alumnus of the Open Student Workshop at the University of Oxford. His essay "Living in America, Leaving Nigeria" was recognized as one of the 18 notable essays by a Nigerian in 2023. The philosophical issues he tends to focus on are non-idealized, particularly focusing on how to morally evaluate oppressive epistemic agents who are products of oppressive social structures. More narrowly, his research focuses on how to account for moral responsibility in oppressive social structures and how we should build a more just world in light of our understanding of moral responsibility in oppressive systems. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in The Republic, Metaphilosophy, Brittlepaper, Barren Magazine, Olongo Africa, Isele Magazine, and Pithead Chapel, among others.