DOI: 10.11647/obp.0425.10 ISSN:

10. Power

Brian Weatherson

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.

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