Deliberate Ignorance and Justified Informing
FUNDING
Uehiro Oxford Institute RP Award
PROJECT DATES
Project duration: 3 years (1st September 2025 – 31st August 2028)
PIs
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Knowledge is almost universally held to be valuable, instrumentally and for its own sake. But people sometimes choose not to know. This project is concerned with the conditions under which such choices are justified, on the one hand, and with the conditions under which we provide people with information without first consulting with them. on the other hand. We aim to illuminate a number of pressing practical questions, for example on the role of expertise in decision-making, on freedom of speech, cancel culture, and medical paternalism. We also aim to build capacity in the institute on applied epistemology.
PROJECT OUTPUTS
The project outputs will be listed here in due course.
