Copyright
Brian WeathersonPublished On
2024-11-21Page Range
pp. 247–252Language
- English
Print Length
6 pagesPower
This chapter ends the book with a short note connecting interest-relativity to the familiar saying Knowledge is Power. I argue that this saying only makes sense on an interest-relative view of knowledge. If interest-relative theories were flawed for one reason or another, then we’d have to simply concede that the saying is false. But we shouldn’t concede that; the saying is true, and interest-relative epistemology explains why it is true.
Contributors
Brian Weatherson
(author)Brian Weatherson is the Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His previous books are Normative Externalism (OUP, 2019), and A History of Philosophy Journals, Volume 1: Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013 (Michigan Publishing, 2022). Brian has over 80 journal articles and book chapters; information about them is at https://brian.weatherson.org/.