Essays on knowledge and justice

Miragoli, Martin (2025) Essays on knowledge and justice. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

This thesis can be seen as a modest contribution to a growing literature that aims to challenge some core assumptions of a widely shared image of epistemology. This is an image of epistemology as a discipline centred on the individual, whose core assumptions concern the way in which this individual relates to the world around them and to other people. This thesis contributes to a critique of this image in a non-direct and non-unitary manner. The critique is not direct because (with the exception of chapter one and, to some extent, chapter six) none of the works here collected offers an explicit challenge to this image. The critique is instead positive, as it furthers a competing image of epistemology as a deeply social discipline. Finally, this critique is non-unitary because the chapters put forward independent arguments, each attempting to capture a different angle of the multiple ways in which social and political relations structure how we think about core epistemic concepts. The result is a harlequin work describing the branching trajectory of an ongoing research into some fundamental philosophical questions on the nature of our epistemic lives.

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
• Colleges/Schools: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy
• Supervisor's Name: Kelp, Professor Christoph, Simion, Professor Mona and Carter, Professor J. Adam
• Date of Award: 2025
• Depositing User: Theses Team
• Unique ID: glathesis:2025-84968
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2025 16:01
• Last Modified: 01 Apr 2025 08:01
• Thesis DOI: 10.5525/gla.thesis.84968
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/84968

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