Epistemological Dimensions of Informational Privacy (original) (raw)

It seems obvious that informational privacy has an epistemological component; privacy or lack of privacy concerns of certain kinds of epistemic relations between a cognizer and sensitive pieces of information. One striking feature of the fairly substantial philosophical literature on informational privacy is that the nature of this epistemological component of privacy is only sparsely discussed. The main aim of this paper is to shed some light on the epistemological component of informational privacy. 1 Philosophy. His main research area is in social epistemology and related questions in political philosophy. He is currently directing a research project called 'The Special Role of Science in Liberal Democracy'.