Lani Watson’s The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them (Routledge 2021) “… provides the first comprehensive examination of the right to know and other epistemic rights: rights to goods such as information, knowledge and truth.” In… Read More ›
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Alethic or Epistemic? A Reply to Lani Watson, Franca d’Agostini
Lani Watson’s “Response” (2021a) to my article (2021) on alethic rights (AR), the rights related to truth, provides an extremely helpful contribution to AR theory. The exchange with Watson is particularly interesting as she has extensively elaborated on a similar… Read More ›
Response to Franca d’Agostini’s “Alethic Rights: Preliminaries of an Inquiry into the Power of Truth”, Lani Watson
Franca d’Agostini (2021) proposes, explicates, and defends six alethic rights corresponding to six different aspects of the ‘need for truth’. In addition, she outlines the underlying theory of truth that grounds these rights, drawing together key ideas from the diverse… Read More ›