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SUMMARY:Permission to know - Jessie Munton (Faculty of Philosophy)
DTSTART:20260212T153000Z
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CONTACT:Ahmad Elabbar
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will argue for what I call the 'Permission View
 ' of knowledge. According to the Permission View we need others' permissio
 n in order to know: social permission is partially _constitutive_ of knowl
 edge. Whilst work from various sources outside analytic epistemology speak
 s in favour of this view\, in this talk I argue for it on the basis of a s
 et of pressures which arise from _within_ accounts of knowledge offered by
  analytic epistemology. Focusing in particular on the discussion of pragma
 tic encroachment\, and knowledge norms of assertion and action\, I argue t
 hat we see the analytic epistemologist fire-fighting against a set of diff
 iculties which can be better accommodated by giving up the individualism o
 f standard analyses of knowledge in favour of the more radically social ap
 proach offered by the Permission View. I then go on to explore and defend 
 some of the controversial implications of the view.
LOCATION:Hopkinson Lecture Theatre\, New Museums Site
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