Over the years, beginning with her work on gender and race, Haslanger has championed an ameliorative approach to epistemology which takes a critical stance towards what she calls a cultural technē, that is, the sum total of social meanings that enable us to make sense of each other in our shared lives. Given that what we take to be knowledge — knowledge about who we are, our gender and race identities, and what we ought to do given those identities — is embedded in such social meanings, Haslanger suggests that philosophers can do more than articulate or describe what we know. In this talk, we'll explore Haslanger's approach to epistemology by asking: what's the point of knowing what we know, particularly if what we know perpetuates certain forms of oppression? Can we perhaps know better, and can philosophers bring about that change?