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Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Feb 26, 2001 10 facts
claimScholars including Medina (2011), Mason (2011), Anderson (2012), Davis (2016), Lackey (2018), and Maitra (2018) have sought to amend or qualify Miranda Fricker's definitions of epistemic injustice.
claimMiranda Fricker introduced the term 'epistemic injustice' in her 2007 work to designate injustices that wrong a subject in their capacity as a knower.
referenceRachel McKinnon's 2017 chapter 'Gaslighting as epistemic injustice,' published in 'The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice' (edited by Kidd, Medina, and Pohlhaus), analyzes gaslighting as a form of epistemic injustice.
claimH. Carel and I. J. Kidd analyzed epistemic injustice within the context of healthcare in their 2014 paper 'Epistemic injustice in healthcare: a philosophical analysis'.
referenceJosé Medina's 2012 book 'The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and the Social Imagination,' published by Oxford University Press, examines the intersections of oppression, epistemic injustice, and social imagination.
referenceBen Kotzee published 'Education and epistemic injustice' in the 2017 book 'The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice'.
referenceGaile Pohlhaus's 2012 paper 'Relational knowing and epistemic injustice: Toward a theory of willful hermeneutical ignorance' develops a framework for understanding how social relationships and power dynamics contribute to epistemic injustice.
referenceJosé Medina's 2011 article 'The relevance of credibility excess in a proportional view of epistemic injustice: Differential epistemic authority and the social imaginary,' published in the journal 'Social Epistemology,' discusses credibility excess and epistemic authority.
referenceNicole Dular's 2021 article 'Mansplaining as Epistemic Injustice' in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly analyzes the concept of mansplaining through the lens of epistemic injustice.
claimThe concept of epistemic injustice has been applied to new domains including social or political contexts (Medina 2012, Dular 2021), health care (Carel and Kidd 2014), education (Kotzee 2017), and criminal law (Lackey 2023).
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 9, 1999 6 facts
claimMiranda Fricker (2007) argues that epistemology should help individuals appreciate and respond to forms of epistemic injustice.
referenceMark Alfano and Josh A. Skorburg co-authored the chapter 'Extended knowledge, the recognition heuristic, and epistemic injustice' in the 2018 book 'Extended Epistemology', edited by J.A. Carter, A. Clark, J. Kallestrup, S.O. Palermos, and D. Pritchard.
claimMiranda Fricker (2003, 2007) defines epistemic injustice as a harm inflicted upon an individual in their capacity as a potential knower, which manifests in several varieties.
perspectiveBenjamin R. Sherman argues in his 2016 article 'There’s no (testimonial) justice: Why pursuit of a virtue is not the solution to epistemic injustice' that focusing on the pursuit of virtue is not an effective solution to the problem of epistemic injustice.
claimResearch on epistemic justice and injustice, as well as explorations of embedded, scaffolded, and extended intellectual character, are informed by attention to the cognitive agent's epistemic community, as noted in works by Fricker (2007), Sherman (2016), Alfano (2013b), and Alfano & Skorburg (2017, 2018).
claimJosé Medina (2011, 2012, 2013) proposes a social-contextualist account of the virtue of epistemic justice and the corresponding vice of epistemic injustice.
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 9, 1999 2 facts
referenceMiranda Fricker published 'Epistemic Injustice and a Role for Virtue in the Politics of Knowing' in Metaphilosophy in 2003, discussing the role of virtue in the context of epistemic injustice.
claimHermeneutical injustice is a form of epistemic injustice where individuals are denied the conceptual and linguistic resources necessary to make sense of and communicate their experiences, with sexual harassment in 1970s America serving as a prime example.
Social Epistemology – Introduction to Philosophy - Rebus Press press.rebus.community 2 facts
claimEpistemic injustice is defined as wrongdoing related to knowledge, including individual interpersonal interactions that demonstrate injustice, as well as larger structures of inequity in knowledge distribution or knowledge production sustained in institutions such as the legal system, medicine, and education.
claimEpistemic injustice explores the epistemic consequences of inequalities within communication networks, where not all members are treated equally.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimApplied epistemology focuses on the practical application of epistemological principles to diverse real-world problems, such as the reliability of knowledge claims on the internet, the assessment of sexual assault allegations, and how racism may lead to epistemic injustice.
claimEpistemic injustice occurs when valid knowledge claims are dismissed or misrepresented.
Epistemological Problems of Testimony plato.stanford.edu Apr 1, 2021 2 facts
Social epistemology - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy rep.routledge.com 1 fact
claimFeminist epistemologists have long studied the social dimension of knowledge, which has been at the core of debates about epistemic injustice.
David Ludwig (Wageningen University and Research): Publications ... philpeople.org 1 fact
referenceThe article 'It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice' proposes an 'active alignment account' to relate epistemic and social justice, arguing that current debates are often misaligned and that a focus on epistemic injustice can distort social justice agendas.