The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them

ISBN-13: 9781032039107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 112 str.

Opis

This book provides the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the right to know and other epistemic rights: rights to goods such as information, knowledge, and truth.

Recenzje

"Watson makes a powerful and timely case for the adoption of a rights framework to understand and address the wrongs resulting from doubt mongering and misinformation campaigns. Written in a lucid and accessible style this book provides a defence of citizens' right to know and of institutions and corporations' duty to inform. It lays the groundwork for what promises to be a whole new area of inquiry." - Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff University, UK

Spis treści

Introduction  1. What Are Epistemic Rights?  2. Who Has Epistemic Rights?  3. When Are Epistemic Rights Violated?  4. Who Gets Hurt?  5. Why do We Need Epistemic Rights?

O autorze

Lani Watson is Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK.