Abstract: 聽 Normative inferentialist approaches to semantics in the tradition of Robert Brandom have traditionally focused on challenging as the appropriate response to an unentitled claim in an assertion-based autonomous discursive practice (ADP). In this paper I argue that purportedly unentitled claiming is likely to be far more prevalent than we might think in such…
Link: Munro, Cults Conspiracies and Fantasies of Knowledge
Pre-Read Session: Christian List “Levels of Description and Levels of Reality: A General Framework” in Levels of Explanation聽(2024), Katie Robertson and Alastair Wilson (Eds.) .
Delineating Epistemic Injustice The notion of epistemic injustice wasn鈥檛 originally intended to be a catch-all term for harms generated by or within our epistemic practices (such as our practice of testimony). Fricker鈥檚 project was one of聽delineation; she wanted to 鈥榙elineate a distinctive class of wrongs, namely those in which someone is ingenuously downgraded and/or disadvantaged…
Neutrality and normativity have both attracted attention in the recent philosophy of logic. In this paper I ask: can we consistently hold that logic is both non-neutral and non-normative when it comes to logics for normative sentences? (e.g. deontic logics.) If these fail to be neutral won鈥檛 they commit themselves on questions of substantive normative…
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