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Epistemic Injustice - Power and the Ethics of Knowing (Paperback)
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Epistemic Injustice - Power and the Ethics of Knowing (Paperback)
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Epistemic Injustice explores the idea that there is a distinctively
epistemic kind of injustice - injustice which consists in a wrong
done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower. Miranda
Fricker distinguishes two forms of epistemic injustice: testimonial
injustice and hermeneutical injustice. Testimonial injustice occurs
when prejudice causes a hearer to give a deflated level of
credibility to a speaker's word; as in the case where the police do
not believe someone because he is black. Hermeneutical injustice,
by contrast, occurs when a gap in collective interpretative
resources puts someone at an unfair disadvantage when it comes to
making sense of their social experiences. A central case of this
sort of injustice is found in the example of a woman who suffers
sexual harassment prior to the time when we acquired this critical
concept, so that she cannot properly comprehend her own experience,
let alone render it communicatively intelligible to others. In
connection with each of these forms of epistemic injustice, Fricker
develops the idea that our testimonial sensibility needs to
incorporate a corrective, anti-prejudicial virtue that can be used
to promote a more veridical and a more democratic epistemic
practice. Epistemology as it has traditionally been pursued has
been impoverished by the lack of any theoretical framework
conducive to revealing the ethical and political aspects of our
epistemic conduct. Epistemic Injustice shows that virtue
epistemology provides a general epistemological idiom in which
these issues can be fruitfully and forcefully discussed.
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