Title: ‘How to Be a Clever Contextualist’ Abstract: This talk defends a contextualist theory of knowledge ascriptions. I argue that in some sentences, the implicit argument of knows 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: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:In this presentation, I aim to explain the three types of labour-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:Beyond the Now:Epistemic Oppression and the Common Sense of Incarceration Abstract:In this presentation, I narrate anencounter with 2 Black teenagers who attempted to steal my cellphone and thedifficulty of insisting onaccountability while avoiding the worst parts of thestate-run criminal justice system. Ultimately, I demonstrate that, at times,when a situation calls foraccountability 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 shes rational to believe. Epistemic akrasiafor example, believing P while believing that P is not rational to believe in your situationis 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) Zo禱 Johnson King (Harvard)
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