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Epistemology: Its Social Relevance

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Workshop with Veli Mitova,
African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg
 

"White Ignorance Undermines Internalism about Epistemic Blame"
University of Zurich, 13th May 2022

 

According to the standard story about blame, non-culpable ignorance is an excuse: if I don’t know that the drink I am giving you contains poison, I am blameless for poisoning you. White ignorance—the oppressor’s ignorance of the experiences of the oppressed—shares a surprising number of features with this kind of case despite being a clearly culpable form of ignorance. For instance, it is typically invisible to its owner, rendering her ignorant of its epistemic and moral harms. This makes the standard blame-story unable to account for the very real intuition that white ignorance is both morally and epistemically blameworthy. In this talk, I focus on epistemic blame. I first draw on the epistemic-excuses literature to argue that white ignorance is epistemically blameworthy. I then show that we can only make sense of this claim if we reject the reasons-internalism implicit in the standard story about epistemic blame.



Masterclass with Mark Schroeder,
University of Southern California

"Reasons, Beliefs, and Persons"

University of Zurich, 16th-17th May 2022
For more info visit https://www.philosophie.uzh.ch/de/studies/doctorate/master_classes.html

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