Alvarado, Ramón (2024) What is Epistemic Loneliness? [Preprint]

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The aim of this paper is to elucidate a type of loneliness that is epistemic in nature. It is so, I will argue, in virtue of the fact that it is first and foremost related to our capacities as knowers. This kind of loneliness can be distinguished and hence identified on the basis that it primarily arises in virtue of, it is primarily responsive to, and specifically affects the knowledge-creating, knowledge-accruing and knowledge-sharing dimensions of interpersonal interactions. Identifying such form of loneliness, I will argue, makes it so that many issues related to the conceptualization of loneliness, and hence to approaches to loneliness, could be alleviated by this framework that identifies epistemic loneliness as a particular, yet common and socially relevant instance of loneliness.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Alvarado, Ramón ralvarad@uoregon.edu 0000-0002-0028-4192
Keywords:	epistemic, loneliness, knowledge, psychology
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry Specific Sciences > Psychology Specific Sciences > Sociology
Depositing User:	Dr. Ramón Alvarado
Date Deposited:	16 Sep 2024 11:56
Last Modified:	16 Sep 2024 11:56
Item ID:	23916
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry Specific Sciences > Psychology Specific Sciences > Sociology
Date:	August 2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23916

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