Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: What is a speaker owed?I. Suppose someone tells you something.Under what conditions do you owe it to her to accept what she's said?I will call this The Question.The Question raises an issue of philosophical significance.For one thing, the issue appears to be at the heart of #BelieveWomen, that part of the #MeToo movement focusing on the proper way to respond to allegations of sexual harassment.Do we owe it to women who tell us that they have been assaulted to believe them?How should we accommodate the fact that, rare as these examples are, 1 not everyone who reports having been assaulted does so truthfully?These are important questions; addressing them requires taking up The Question.But the importance of The Question transcends #MeToo and #BelieveWomen.Speakers feel a characteristic sting when their word is I would like to thank audiences at the Epistemic Breakthroughs conference (St.Andrews), the European Epistemology Network (Glasgow), the Freedom of Belief workshop (University of Edinburgh), a workshop at Washington
Source: Philosophy & Public Affairs
DOI: 10.1111/papa.12219
Author: Sanford C. Goldberg
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,050
Funders: Harvard University, University of Oxford
OpenAlex ID: W4283516083