Title: ‘How to Be a Clever Contextualist’ Abstract: This talk defends a contextualist theory of 鈥榢nowledge鈥� ascriptions. I argue that in some sentences, the implicit argument of 鈥榢nows鈥� is bound by a quantifier. The natural readings of these sentences can be generated by contextualist theories, but not by competing interest-relative theories of knowledge. In addition,…
Event co-Hosted with ECT and FPST. Title: Extractivist epistemologies Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of extractivist epistemology as a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism: seeking an epistemic resource of some sort—such as…
Climate Change, COVID-19, Justice, and Quality of Life Abstract:聽Justice would appear to require that those who are the principal beneficiaries of a history of economic and political behavior that has resulted in harmful global climate change should bear a correspondingly large share of the burden in contending with these harms worldwide. At the same time,…
Title: The Labours of Chronic Illness Abstract:聽In this presentation, I aim to explain the three types of labour-聽administrative labour, hermeneutic labour and epistemic labour- that chronically ill people have to engage in to get good care. The goal is to highlight why being chronically ill is often considered by many chronically ill people to be…
Title:聽Beyond the Now:聽Epistemic Oppression and the 鈥淐ommon鈥� Sense of Incarceration Abstract:聽In this presentation, I narrate an聽encounter with 2 Black teenagers who attempted to steal my cellphone and the聽difficulty of insisting on聽accountability while avoiding the worst parts of the聽state-run criminal justice system. Ultimately, I demonstrate that, at times,聽when a situation calls for聽accountability for a serious wrongdoing…
Title: Epistemic Akrasia: No Apology Required Abstract: It is natural to think that rationality imposes some relationship between what a person believes, and what she believes about what she鈥檚 rational to believe. Epistemic akrasia鈥攆or example, believing P while believing that P is not rational to believe in your situation鈥攊s often seen as intrinsically irrational. This…
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Ideology, Culture, and Social Meaning Abstract: My aim in this paper is to sketch a conception of ideology that draws on the critical theory tradition. This conception of ideology is a response to a particular challenge for those working on social justice: Why is it that most of us, most…
CEPPA Talk (online) 鈥� Zo毛 Johnson King (Harvard)
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