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Abstract: In this talk I examine, and rebut, Goldberg鈥檚 (2020) arguments in favour of a conversational norm that would defeasibly entitle linguistic agents to presume that silence indicates assent (NSR). Using evidence from conversational analysis I show that Goldberg is wrong to claim that our linguistic communities de facto conform to this norm in conversation.…

Abstract: In this paper, I provide an account of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of 鈥渂eing known鈥� and the relationship it has to reparations that are distinctively epistemic. Drawing on a framework provided by the United Nations of the 鈥渞ight to know,鈥� I argue that victims of gross violations and injustices not only have…

Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of聽extractivist epistemology聽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 a piece of pharmacological knowledge held by an indigenous community or…

Abstract: Knowledge by sight is a standard paradigm of a posteriori knowledge. Knowledge by mathematical proof is a standard paradigm of a priori knowledge. However, I will argue that the two types of knowledge have so much in common that the a priori – a posteriori distinction cannot go very deep.

Abstract: It is said that inquiry has an aim, though it’s not entirely clear how we should think about this claim. What, in general, does it mean to say that the activity of inquiry has an aim? In this talk I go through a few options and think about them within the context of the…

POSTPONED TO 7/4/2022 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 in the U.S. one聽can find oneself trapped…