Articles and papers by Hanna Gunn
Blackwell Companion to Applied Epistemology, 2018
In this paper, we argue that certain facts about googling make it particularly interesting to the... more In this paper, we argue that certain facts about googling make it particularly interesting to the applied epistemologist. Our practices involving search-engines not only have a distinctive character, that character puts some traditional epistemic questions in a new light. This paper examines two of those questions. The first concerns the extent to which googling raises problems similar to familiar quandaries surrounding testimonial knowledge. The second—and more radical—concerns whether googling is a type of distributed or extended knowledge.
Dissertation by Hanna Gunn
In this dissertation, I argue for a unifying account of epistemic and communicative injustice. I ... more In this dissertation, I argue for a unifying account of epistemic and communicative injustice. I do this by showing how these are both ultimately threats to our agency. More specifically, I argue that they are threats to our social-epistemic agency, a distinct kind of agency concerned with the ability to be self-determining in the social-epistemic domain. This agency is fundamentally valuable given the importance of being treated as someone worthy of inclusion in communicative and epistemic life. I argue that agency should be conceived of as a measure of our ability to actually bring about changes in the social-epistemic domain: our ability to alter the epistemic environment by contributing to enquiry, changing someone’s mind, learning from one’s teachers, occupying a desired social-epistemic role. Social-epistemic agency is dependent both on developing a tripartite set of agential competencies and on our treatment by others. These two components of social-epistemic agency come toge...
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Articles and papers by Hanna Gunn
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Dissertation by Hanna Gunn
You can find my work on my website,
https://www.hannakirigunn.com/
or on my PhilPeople page,
https://philpeople.org/profiles/hanna-gunn/publications
Ngā mihi and Cheers.