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DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Series\n	\n	'Public Artifacts and the Epistemology of 
 Collective Material Testimony'\n\nQuill Kukla\, Kennedy Institute of Ethic
 s\, Georgetown University\n	Friday\, October 21\, 2022\n	3:30-5:30 PM EST\n	L
 eacock 927\n\nMany artifacts that are part of the public landscape—includi
 ng monuments\, memorials\, murals\, and many viewing towers\, arches\, gar
 dens\, public sculptures\, and buildings— are designed to communicate know
 ledge. It is common to describe such public artifacts as speech\, and also
  to describe them as transmitting knowledge of one sort or another. But th
 e claim that these artifacts can be knowledge-transmitting speech is not t
 ypically developed as the complex claim in philosophy of language and soci
 al epistemology that it is. I will argue that such public artifacts can be
  testimony. This raises several philosophically important questions: How c
 an public artifacts be speech\, and more specifically\, how can they testi
 fy? Whose testimony are they? To whom and about what are they testifying? 
 And what is the epistemological status of this testimony—when should it be
  trusted? Surely if public artifacts can testify\, then they can also misl
 ead\; it would be strange for them to be a form of testimony that is alway
 s trustworthy. Taking seriously their status as testimony means taking ser
 iously as well the ways in which they can communicate false or unentitled 
 claims. I am especially interested in public artifacts that at least appea
 r to function as collective testimony\, communicating collective knowledge
 .\n\n \n
DTSTART:20221021T193000Z
DTEND:20221021T213000Z
LOCATION:Room 927\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Quill Kukla\, 'Public Artifacts and the Epistemology of Collective 
 Material Testimony'
URL:/philosophy/channels/event/quill-kukla-public-arti
 facts-and-epistemology-collective-material-testimony-342557
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