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Centering Epistemic Injustice
Epistemic Labor, Willful Ignorance, and Knowing Across Hermeneutical Divides
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2021
Summary
In Centering Epistemic Injustice: Epistemic Labor, Willful Ignorance, and Knowing Across Hermeneutical Divides, Kamili Posey asks what it means for accounts of epistemic injustice to take seriously the lives and perspectives of socially marginalized knowers. The first part of this book takes up the predominant account of testimonial injustice offered by Miranda Fricker, arguing that testimonial injustice is not merely about the epistemic harms perpetrated by dominant knowers against marginalized knowers, but also about the strategies that marginalized knowers use to circumvent those harms. Such strategies expand current conceptions of epistemic injustice by centering how marginalized knowers engage and resist in hostile epistemic environments. The second part of the book examines Fricker’s concept of hermeneutical injustice, rooted in hermeneutical marginalization. Thinking alongside critics of hermeneutical injustice, Centering Epistemic Injustice explores the relationship between dominant knowing and marginalized knowing and asks if social power—including the power to shape collective resources and ways of meaning-making—makes it impossible for dominant knowers to know and “hear well” across hermeneutical divides. Finally, the book asks whether hermeneutical divides are real divides in understanding and how dominant knowers might come to be better knowers in the pursuit of a more thoroughgoing epistemic justice.
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Edition
1/2021
Copyright Year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7257-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7258-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
138
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
On Testimonial Virtue and Testimonial Justice No access Pages 1 - 22
On Epistemic Labor, Epistemic Disavowal, and Epistemic Burden No access Pages 23 - 44
Hermeneutical Marginalization and Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance No access Pages 45 - 68
Disagreement, Implicit Bias Interventions, and Evolving Epistemic Frameworks No access Pages 69 - 94
Epistemic Charity, Epistemic Standpoints, and Structural Epistemic Justice No access Pages 95 - 118
