[Iris] Veli Mitova Forum Talk "White Ignorance Undermines Internalism about Epistemic Blame"

This week the Forum is excited to have a talk by Veli Mitova: “White ignorance undermines internalism about epistemic blame“! Consequently, there will be no reading. As always, everyone is welcome to join, especially newcomers - just show up! Abstract: According to the standard story about blame, non-culpable ignorance is an excuse: if I don’t know that the drink I am giving you contains poison, I am blameless for poisoning you. White ignorance—the oppressor’s ignorance of the experiences of the oppressed—shares a surprising number of features with this kind of case despite being a clearly culpable form of ignorance. For instance, it is typically invisible to its owner, rendering her ignorant of its epistemic and moral harms. This makes the standard blame-story unable to account for the very real intuition that white ignorance is both morally and epistemically blameworthy. In this talk, I focus on epistemic blame. I first draw on the epistemic-excuses literature to argue that white ignorance is epistemically blameworthy. I then show that we can only make sense of this claim if we reject the reasons-internalism implicit in the standard story about epistemic blame. When: Friday, 10.06.22, 18:30-20:00 Where: HS 3F (NIG) Or Zoom: <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83842996811?pwd=RCtlR29LaE1ad2RqTHNFQmpYWWtFdz09> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83842996811?pwd=RCtlR29LaE1ad2RqTHNFQmpYWWtFdz09 Meeting ID: 838 4299 6811 Password: 9Mn0AY Best, Martin Niederl