Standard epistemology takes it for granted that there is a special kind of value: epistemic value. This claim does not seem to sit well with act utilitarianism, however, since it holds that only welfare is of real value. I first develop a particularly utilitarian sense of “epistemic value”, according to which it is closely analogous to the nature of financial value. I then demonstrate the promi...

This afterword addresses four broad questions raised by this special issue: uncertainty as a mode of governance, the ontological politics naturalisation, citizen-noncitizen distinction, and performative (anxious) states. First, taking neoliberal governance starting point analysis, invites scrutiny ways in which artifice citizenship are concealed or rendered irrelevant naturalisation processes. ...