Gender and racial oppression, epistemic injustice, and resistant imaginations. Pdf fricker epistemic injustice power and the ethics of knowing. Powerlessness and social interpretation abstract our understanding of social experiences is central to our social understanding more generally. Home about rho collections free trial how to buy promotions. The dual aim of this article is to reveal and explain a certain phenomenon of epistemic injustice as manifested in testimonial practice, and to. Epistemic injustice and the philosophy of race download pdf. The book reveals epistemic injustice as a potent yet largely silent dimension of discrimination, analyses the wrong it perpetrates, and constructs two hybrid ethical. The book reveals epistemic injustice as a potent yet largely silent dimension of discrimination, analyses the wrong it perpetrates, and. She selects the anger free hotel room conversation between marge and herbert in the talented mr. Epistemic injustice department of philosophy university of bristol. Rae langton in this elegant and groundbreaking work, fricker names the phenomenon of epistemic injustice, and distinguishes two central forms of it, with their two corresponding remedies. Relational autonomy and epistemic injustice anu gender. How epistemic injustice fails educational opportunities. We offer an epistemic analysis of this problem using miranda frickers account of epistemic injustice.
This paper criticises miranda frickers account of the primary harm of testimonial injustice as a kind of epistemic objectification, where the latter is understood on the model provided by martha nussbaums influential analysis of sexual objectification and where it is taken to involve the denial of someones epistemic agency. Evolving concepts of epistemic injustice the routledge handbook. View epistemic injustice research papers on academia. Following the conference understanding epistemic injustice, organised by the department of philosophy in 2014, we have made available material from the conference to facilitate further discussion on the topic of epistemic injustice.
We detail two types of epistemic injustice, testimonial and. Although both relational autonomy theory and theories of epistemic injustice are gaining increasing traction, within and outside philosophy, much philosophical work remains recalcitrantly individualistic and blind to the effects of social positionality on our agential and epistemic capacities. Resisting structural epistemic injustice philarchive. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. While there are many virtues to the literature on epistemic injustice, epistemic exclusion and. Power and the ethics of knowing by miranda fricker. But this sphere of epistemic practice can be structurally prejudiced by unequal relations of power, so that some groups suff er a distinctive kind of epistemic injustice hermeneutical injustice. Review overall, epistemic injustice is an exciting examination of a widespread problem that is rarely discussed in such terms so that it can be understood and communicated, and perhaps, someday, solved. Papers discussed explored or applied the concept of epistemic. Following the conference understanding epistemic injustice, organised by the. On anger, silence, and epistemic injustice volume 84 alison bailey. Fricker epistemic injustice power and the ethics of knowing. Epistemic injustice one of the most important and groundbreaking subjects to have. The routledge handbook of epistemic injustice is essential reading for students and.
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