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THE EPISTEMIC ACCOUNT OF PRIVACY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2013

Martijn Blaauw
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Abstract

Privacy is valued by many. But what it means to have privacy remains less than clear. In this paper, I argue that the notion of privacy should be understood in epistemic terms. What it means to have (some degree of) privacy is that other persons do not stand in significant epistemic relations to those truths one wishes to keep private.

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Episteme , Volume 10 , Special Issue 2: Privacy, Secrecy, and Epistemology , June 2013 , pp. 167 - 177
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