The epistemic demands of friendship: friendship as inherently knowledge-involving

Mason, Cathy

doi:10.1007/s11229-020-02892-w

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“…We want to be seen by our friends, to be loved and accepted for who we are, not ignored in favour of a positive fantasy. Mason (2021) thus proposes a conception of friendship in which it inherently involves knowledge of the other, or a progressive movement towards such knowledge: '[F]riendship is an epistemically involved, knowledge-involving, state' (Mason, 2021(Mason, , p. 2449. Such a conception of friendship, she suggests, rules out the possibility that acting epistemically irresponsibly could make one a better friend.…”

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“…Finally, some sceptics about epistemic partialism have suggested that it goes wrong from the start, by accepting a mistaken view of friendship. (See Badhwar (1993), Kawall (2013), Yao (2020), Mason (2021) and Dormandy (2022)). Friendship, these sceptics suggest, importantly involves relating to the other person as they really are.…”

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Epistemic Partialism

Mason

2023

Philosophy Compass

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Most of us are partial to our friends and loved ones: we treat them with special care, and we feel justified in doing so. In recent years, the idea that good friends are also epistemically partial to one another has been popular. Being a good friend, so‐called epistemic partialists suggest, involves being positively biased towards one's friends – that is, involves thinking more highly of them than is warranted by the evidence. In this paper, I outline the concept of epistemic partiality and its relation to non‐epistemic partiality and explore some considerations that speak in favour of and against such partialism in friendships. I finish by suggesting some directions in which this debate could go next.

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Epistemic Partialism

Mason

2023

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“…However, as I shall explain later, Kawall underestimates the role of the non-deliberative, highgrade cases of doxastic partiality. Mason (2021) suggests a different argument building on an idea of Iris Murdoch who thinks that love is (or involves) knowledge. To love someone involves knowing who they are as a person where this knowledge has as its objects the character traits, personal qualities, and deeply held values and beliefs of a friend.…”

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Friendship and the grades of doxastic partiality

Vahid

2024

Theoria

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It has been claimed that friendship not only involves partial treatment of one's friends but that it also involves some degree of doxastic partiality towards them. Taking these claims as their starting points, some philosophers have argued that friendship not only involves such partiality but that this is also what is normatively required. This gives rise to the possibility of conflict between the demands of friendship on the one hand and the demands of epistemic norms on the other. In this paper, I consider some of the responses to this claim and show why they fail. I distinguish between different grades of doxastic partiality and explain why, although low grades of doxastic partiality fall within the bounds of the standard epistemic norm, the higher grades might infringe such norms. I conclude with an explanation of a fundamental intuition that seems to lie at the heart of the thesis of epistemic partiality.

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Epistemic Partiality and the Nature of Friendship

Warman

2024

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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The epistemic demands of friendship: friendship as inherently knowledge-involving

Cited by 9 publications

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