Epistemology Colloquium series featuring Juan Pi帽eros Glassock, Yale University
4:00 PM 鈥� 6:00 PM
The Department of Philosophy presents the Epistemology Colloquium series which will take up the first few weeks of our department鈥檚 colloquium schedule, continuing this Thursday. The speakers are all candidates for an Epistemology position in Philosophy.
Our second colloquium of the year is being given by Juan Pi帽eros Glassock, Yale University
Abstract:
Authoritative Knowledge
I argue that practical authority is a basic knowledge source: in the right situations, a person is epistemically warranted to form a belief (e.g. about what her subordinates will do) just on the basis of exercising her authority, yielding what I call 鈥榓uthoritative knowledge鈥�. I argue for this thesis by presenting arguments against an alternative, inferentialist account of authoritative knowledge, and then by offering a positive, virtue-theoretic account of direct warrant that explains what features of authority make it a basic knowledge source.
THURSDAY, January 18th, 2018
WATSON HALL, ROOM 517 @ 4:00 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
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