Deference Epistemology Is One Kind of Answer

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i think that who you are has impacts on what you know. That so that's a very old thought in many traditions of philosophy, many intellectual traditions, many political traditions. i think attention to that is extremely important. Living out standpoint epistemology in a way that is progressive is goods that moves the world forward rather than backwards.

Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons interview on In This House We Believe antiracism. Since 2020, Táíwò has published a book expanding on these ideas: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). Read Táíwò's essay: thephilosopher1923.org/post/being-in-the-room-privilege-elite-capture-and-epistemic-deference Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Read our newsletter at thedigradio.com