Privacy and Knowing Who
Description
Privacy and Knowing Who: A Contextual Approach
Privacy is one of the most crucial and widely-discussed concepts in our current culture. The exact meaning of privacy remains largely elusive. In this lecture, I will argue for the claim that 'knowledge' is an essential ingredient of a coherent conception of privacy. To have privacy means that others don't know certain of your 'personal propositions'. This conception of privacy thus sits well with our intuitive notion of privacy. In short, this paper will be a first step towards establishing 'the epistemology of privacy'
Speaker(s)
Dr Martijn Blaauw (*1977) is Coordinator of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. He received his PhD in Philosophy (cum laude) from VU University Amsterdam in 2004 for a thesis defending a contrastivist solution to the problem of radical scepticism. Since his PhD, he has held positions at the University of Aarhus (Denmark, postdoctoral researcher, 2004-2005), the University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom, Lecturer in Philosophy, 2005-2007), the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VENI laureate 2007-2011), and, since 2011, at the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. He has published in several leading international journals on knowledge theory topics, and is currently writing a monograph entitled 'Knowledge in Contrast'. Later this year, his book 'Contrastivism in Philosophy' will be released by Routledge Publishers: a collection of articles on the role of contrast classes in philosophy. In his current research, he focuses on the privacy debate, and in particular on the knowledge-theoretical aspects of that debate
Location
Utrecht
Organiser
Philosophy & Technology
Name and contact details for information
Further information from drs.ing. Henk Uijttenhout (vz), tel: 070 - 3875293 / 06 - 42505844 or via the e-mail address below