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SUMMARY:Epistemic Transparency: Meanings\, Models and the Limits of Knowle
 dge - Hajo Greif
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DESCRIPTION:It has become common to diagnose that artificial intelligence 
 (AI) leads to situations of "essential" epistemic opacity: situations that
  cannot be remedied by providing an epistemic agent with more or better in
 formation about the relevant process. A common but mostly implicit assumpt
 ion in these debates is that epistemic opacity may be essential due to the
  nature of the processes themselves\, rather than the epistemic situation 
 of the agent. To clarify the possible meanings of essential opacity\, I re
 verse the analytical perspective by asking what it would mean for a proces
 s to be essentially *transparent*. My conceptual approach navigates the di
 stinct yet related meanings of "transparency" within various philosophical
  subdisciplines: transparency of mathematical models in the philosophy of 
 science\; transparency of content in the internalist and externalist varia
 nts of the philosophy of mind and language\; and informational transparenc
 y of environments in the philosophy of biology. Based on a comparative dis
 cussion of these views\, I argue that even the most a-prioristic philosoph
 ical accounts of content transparency render essential transparency at mos
 t a conceptual possibility. Thus\, an asymmetry remains between this notio
 n of transparency and the factual possibility of agent-independent opacity
 \, which marks the boundaries of what can in principle be known by any fin
 ite agent. I conclude that\, in virtually all real-world situations\, situ
 ated and agent-centred accounts of transparent versus opaque processes are
  more meaningful.
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URL:https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2026/talk/NENCN8/
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