Mikkel Gerken (PhD, UCLA 2007) is a Danish philosopher. His research revolves around theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind but it is often integrated with theories of language and communication, cognitive psychology, philosophy of science and philosophical methodology. Gerken was an associate professor at the University of Edinburgh before returning to his native Denmark, where he is now an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark. He is an elected member of The Young Academy under the Royal Danish Academy of the Sciences and was awarded a Young Elite Researcher prize from the Danish Ministry of Science.

"On Folk Epistemology is a rich, carefully argued book that not only makes important contributions to several prominent epistemological debates, but also, and perhaps most importantly, opens up for a new exciting field of research where the relation between epistemology and our epistemic practices can be further investigated." --Metascience

"A must read for anyone interested in thinking about folk epistemology ... I expect [Gerken's] endeavor to explain a wide variety of intuitive epistemic assessments by appealing to cognitive and communicative heuristics to have a lasting discipline-shaping impact on the empirical study of folk epistemology. ... The book will be of interest not only to epistemologists of all stripes and experimental philosophers who study folk epistemology but also to anyone interested in understanding what a philosophically astute, empirically informed engagement with the scientific study of mental state attributions can look like." -- James R. Beebe, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews