Epistemic Injustice Power and the Ethics of Knowing

Name: Epistemic Injustice Power and the Ethics of Knowing
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ISBN: 9780199570522

ISBN-10: 0199570523

ISBN-13: 9780199570522

Edition: 2009

Authors: Miranda Fricker

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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 believesomeone 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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 7/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.50" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Testimonial Injustice



Prejudice In The Credibility Economy



Towards A Virtue Epistemological Account of Testimony



The Virtue of Testimonial Justice



The Genealogy of Testimonial Justice



Original Significances: The Wrong Revisited



Hermeneutical Injustice


Conclusion


Index