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Copyright

Brian Weatherson

Published On

2024-11-21

Page Range

pp. 247–252

Language

  • English

Print Length

6 pages

10. Power

Chapter of: Knowledge: A Human Interest Story(pp. 247–252)
This chapter ends the book with a short note connecting interest-relativity to the familiar saying Knowledge is Power. I argue that this saying only makes sense on an interest-relative view of knowledge. If interest-relative theories were flawed for one reason or another, then we’d have to simply concede that the saying is false. But we shouldn’t concede that; the saying is true, and interest-relative epistemology explains why it is true.

Contributors

Brian Weatherson

(author)
Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Brian Weatherson is the Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His previous books are Normative Externalism (OUP, 2019), and A History of Philosophy Journals, Volume 1: Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013 (Michigan Publishing, 2022). Brian has over 80 journal articles and book chapters; information about them is at https://brian.weatherson.org/.