Wednesday 14 October 2020, 4.00PM to 5.30pm
Speaker(s): Dr Jessie Munton, St John's College, University of Cambridge
Talk title 'Epistemic Norms for Search Engines'
Abstract: We commonly make evaluations of search engines and the results they return, but what grounds those evaluations? One straightforward way of evaluating search engines appeals to the intentions or goals of the user. Are there, in addition, user-independent norms, that allow us to evaluate search engines in ways that may come apart from their ability to satisfy the individual using them? One way of grounding such norms appeals to moral or political considerations. In this talk, I argue that in addition to those moral norms, there are also distinctive user-independent epistemic
Location: Via Zoom (Joining instructions to follow)
Admission: Colloquium members and postgraduate students