Over-intelligibility
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Contemporary philosophers have argued that framing new concepts can bring about both moral and epistemic progress. In this paper, I argue that such intelligibility also has downsides. This paper introduces the phenomenon of ‘over-intelligibility,’ which obtains when a concept truly applies and facilitates understanding, yet hinders someone as a knower. This takes place when concepts normalize or detrimentally standardize our epistemic lives.
Source: Political Philosophy
DOI: 10.16995/pp.24931
Author: Maya Krishnan
Institution: University of Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415170958