Demarginalizing Standpoint Epistemology

Toole, Briana

doi:10.1017/epi.2020.8

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“…The inversion thesis, which states that marginalized social groups hold epistemic advantages, is a key claim of standpoint epistemology, though its interpretations and justifications are often contested (see Intemann, 2010;Toole, 2020;Wylie, 2003). My modeling results contribute to standpoint epistemology in two ways.…”

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“…This claim is often called the inversion thesis, after the inverse relation between knowers' sociopolitical power and epistemic privilege. The interpretations of and justifications for the inversion thesis are often highly contested (see, e.g., Intemann (2010), Toole (2020), andWylie (2003)). In what follows, I propose a possible mechanism that gives rise to the inversion thesis, by 1 For more on testimonial reciprocity, see Hornsby (1995).…”

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Epistemic advantage on the margin: A network standpoint Epistemology

2022

Philos Phenomenol Research

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I use network models to simulate social learning situations in which the dominant group ignores or devalues testimony from the marginalized group. I find that the marginalized group ends up with several epistemic advantages due to testimonial ignoration and devaluation. The results provide one possible explanation for a key claim of standpoint epistemology, the inversion thesis, by casting it as a consequence of another key claim of the theory, the unidirectional failure of testimonial reciprocity. Moreover, the results complicate the understanding and application of previously discovered network epistemology effects, notably the Zollman effect (Zollman, 2007(Zollman, , 2010.What people of color quickly come to see-in a sense, the primary epistemic principle of the racialized social epistemology of which they are the object-is that they are not seen at all.

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Epistemic advantage on the margin: A network standpoint Epistemology

2022

Philos Phenomenol Research

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“…Feminist political philosopher Hartsock (1983/2003) drew from Marxian ideas to theorize how women’s subordinated and oppressed position in society afforded them an epistemically advantaged and critical standpoint not available to men who, given their dominant positions in society, held a distorted and deficient understanding of the social domain of life. Philosophers and scientists are revisiting this epistemology to extend standpoint theory to include other groups whose situated knowledge may provide them epistemic advantage in knowing (see, for example, Jones, 2020; Toole, 2020).…”

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“…Ethical and Systematic Research Methods : Research processes embody nursing values for the well-being of humans and environments and for scientific inquiry in generating useful and relevant knowledge. An effective scientific infrastructure operates to check biases while facilitating participation of diverse and minority views (Toole, 2020).…”

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Standpoint Epistemology and Nursing Science

Reed

2021

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In this article, I propose that engagement in nursing practice affords an epistemic advantage and should be included in defining nursing science and as a warrant for scientific knowledge. I appeal to standpoint epistemology, a philosophical theory, to support my proposal. A new conception of objectivity, which aligns with the contemporary practice of science and standpoint theory, is discussed. The article presents a preliminary theory of nursing standpoint theory that explains epistemic advantage of a practicing nurse. Open questions about nursing science conclude the article.

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“… For a more thorough examination of the tension between standpoint and traditional epistemologies, see Toole (). …”

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From Standpoint Epistemology to Epistemic Oppression

Toole¹

2019

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Standpoint epistemology is committed to a cluster of views that pays special attention to the role of social identity in knowledge-acquisition. Of particular interest here is the situated knowledge thesis. This thesis holds that for certain propositions p, whether an epistemic agent is in a position to know that p depends on some nonepistemic facts related to the epistemic agent's social identity. In this article, I examine two possible ways to interpret this thesis. My first goal here is to clarify existing interpretations of this thesis that appear in the literature but that are undeveloped and often mistakenly conflated. In so doing, I aim to make clear the different versions of standpoint epistemology that one might accept and defend. This project is of significance, I argue, because standpoint epistemology provides helpful tools for understanding a phenomenon of recent interest: epistemic oppression. My second goal is to provide an analysis that makes clear how each of the readings I put forth can be used to illuminate forms of epistemic oppression.The landscape of epistemology is changing. Epistemologists are no longer concerned solely with questions regarding what conditions are necessary for knowledge or how knowledge is transmitted; they have instead shifted their attention to concerns regarding our epistemic practices and how those practices might oppress. Epistemic oppression, the unwarranted exclusion or obstruction of certain epistemic agents from the practices of knowledge-production (Dotson 2012, 2014), has been the focus of much work produced by feminist epistemologists in the last decade, and rightly so. If the aim of epistemology is to bring us closer to truth, then any practice that threatens to subvert this aim ought to be thoroughly investigated. 1 In this article, I argue that in order to understand, address, and eliminate epistemic oppression, we must appeal to the conceptual tools made available by standpoint epistemology.Broadly speaking, standpoint epistemology is committed to the thesis that some nonepistemic features related to an agent's social identity make a difference to what an epistemic agent is in a position to know (Hartsock 1983;Haraway 1988;Harding

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Demarginalizing Standpoint Epistemology

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Epistemic advantage on the margin: A network standpoint Epistemology

Epistemic advantage on the margin: A network standpoint Epistemology

Standpoint Epistemology and Nursing Science

From Standpoint Epistemology to Epistemic Oppression

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