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95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Correlation Between Identity Markers and Knowledge?

There are correlations between one's identity markers and one's knowledge. Even that apparently trivial point can have implications which are sometimes forgotten. People tend to trust more of those at the top of social hierarchies if they know who is dangerous in a workplace, he says. The idea like the idea of your social position gives you access to certain kinds of knowledge isn't just meant to be an empirical fact but rather a more substantial thing called standpoint epistemology where people see things from perspective of their own interests or something like that.

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