The Nature of Epistemic Injustice

Discerning the Primary Epistemic Harm in Cases of Testimonial Injustice

“…First, it has more explanatory power with regard to the phenomenon of denying another's credibility in some cases but not others. Second, it highlights simultaneously the agential and structural aspects of testimonial injustice, something Fricker has been criticized for not recognizing (Alcoff 2010;Langton 2010;Maitra 2010). Third, in highlighting simultaneously the agential and structural aspects at play in testimonial injustice, the subject/other frame illuminates important aspects of epistemic agency.…”

When Philosophical Argumentation Impedes Social and Political Progress

“…My main argument in this paper centers on the claim that a standard form of philosophical argumentation—one that takes a default skeptical stance as an appropriate starting point for response—offers a limited hermeneutical resource for those who speak from the position of the traditionally marginalized. Thus, with respect to an analysis of epistemic injustice , the discussion we now explore may serve as an extended case study that illustrates a strong connection between testimonial and hermeneutical injustice—something that Fricker does not deny but that reviewers of her work have especially noted …”

The caring refusenik: A portrait

“…Bringing together insights from the rich body of literature on hermeneutic oppression and care ethics, I propose to interpret the refusal of such grands récits as the expression of a caring commitment to nurturing a plurivocal politico‐hermeneutic space, protecting it from becoming closed off. On the one hand, theorists of hermeneutic oppression (Alcoff, , ; Dotson, , , ; Maitra, ; Medina, ; Origgi, ; Pohlhaus, ) help account for the complex social, political, and economic mechanisms behind the exclusion of certain narratives about the past from collective meaning‐making processes. The silencing of certain voices and visions has been of ongoing interest in feminist (Alcoff, ; Hornsby & Langton, ; Lugones, ), critical race (Collins, ; Mills, , ), and postcolonial theory (Mignolo, ; Mohanty, ; Santos, ; Spivak, ).…”