The Epistemic Account of Privacy

Episteme 10 (2):167-177 (2013)
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Privacy is valued by many. But what it means to have privacy remains less than clear. In this paper, I argue that the notion of privacy should be understood in epistemic terms. What it means to have (some degree of) privacy is that other persons do not stand in significant epistemic relations to those truths one wishes to keep private.

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10.1017/epi.2013.12

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Knowledge in a social world.Alvin I. Goldman - 1991 - New York: Oxford University Press.
From contextualism to contrastivism.Jonathan Schaffer - 2004 - Philosophical Studies 119 (1-2):73-104.
On the linguistic basis for contextualism.Jason Stanley - 2004 - Philosophical Studies 119 (1-2):119-146.

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