Miranda fricker on the economy of prejudice dialnet. Epistemic injustice by miranda fricker waterstones. This paper summarizes key themes from my epistemic injustice. Fricker epistemic injustice pdf in this elegantly crafted book, miranda frickers timely project of looking at the negative space that is epistemic injustice viii comes to fruition.
Epistemic injustice hardcover miranda fricker oxford. It explores how agents capacities to make assertions and provide testimony can be impaired in ways that can involve forms of distinctively epistemic injustice. Powerlessness and social interpretation abstract our understanding of social experiences is central to our social understanding more generally. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in order to reveal the ethical dimension of our epistemic practices the focus must shift to. Apart from the fictional example of tom robinson in to kill a mocking bird, miranda fricker makes no explicit reference to the judiciary in this excellent and well argued book.
The book reveals epistemic injustice as a potent yet largely silent dimension of discrimination, analyses the. An account of malicious agency in hermeneutical injustice alyssa cirne a symmetrical social power leads to and is simultaneously fed by asymmetrical power in the development of hermeneutical and epistemic tools, such as language, for transmitting information. Miranda fricker distinguishes two forms of epistemic injustice. Influential prior work on epistemic injustice, most famously by miranda fricker and kristie dotson, has provided extensive models of how silencing can be a symptom of epistemic harm. Lance guillory section h epistemic injustice in testimony miranda fricker writes on epistemic injustice in testimony and how heavy the impact of someones identity is on their words.
Zalerts allow you to be notified by email about the availability of new books according to your search query. Miranda fricker is professor of philosophy at birkbeck college. Consider miranda frickers treatment of testimonial injustice in her widely influential 2007 book, epistemic injustice. In previous work i have explored how the wrong of both kinds of epistemic injustice has both an ethical and an epistemic significancesomeone is. Power and the ethics of knowing by fricker, miranda isbn. But my present aim is to show that this wrong can also have a political significance. Since miranda fricker published epistemic injustice. Download the ios download the android app other related materials. The epistemology of testimony download pdfepub ebook. Power and the ethics of knowing, oxford university press, 2007, 188pp. Miranda frickers book epistemic injustice calls attention to an important sort of moral and intellectual wrongdoing, that of failing to give others. How should the pursuit of knowledge be organized, given that under normal circumstances knowledge is pursued by many human beings, each working on a more or less welldefined body of knowledge and each equipped with roughly the same imperfect cognitive capacities, albeit with varying degree of access to one anothers activities. In this post, i will explain what fricker means by epistemic injustice, and why it is such an interesting and important idea.
In this article, i discuss miranda frickers groundbreaking work on epistemic injustice, as well as more recent developments that both offer critique and expansion on the nature and extent of epistemic injustice. Domination, epistemic injustice and republican epistemology. Testimonial injustice occurs when prejudice causes a hearer to give a deflated level of. Although we have experienced epistemic injustice either in the role of acting it against others, or in the role of suffering because others act epistemic injustice against us, only miranda fricker could see this important issue so clearly and i am really grateful to her for bringing in the open her thoughts on actually everyday observation which just passes.
The dual aim of this article is to reveal and explain a certain phenomenon of epistemic injustice as manifested in testimonial practice, and to arrive at a characterisation of the antiprejudicial intellectual virtue that is such as to counteract it. Download the epistemology of testimony ebook for free in pdf and epub format. Epistemic injustice explores the idea that there is a distinctively epistemic kind of injustice injustice which. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. In previous work i have explored how the wrong of both kinds of epistemic injustice has both an ethical and an epistemic significancesomeone is wronged in their capacity as a knower. Miranda fricker is the author of epistemic injustice 4.
The concept of epistemic injustice was introduced by miranda fricker and refers to. The book explores two different types of epistemic injustice, each driven by a form of prejudice, and from this exploration comes a positive account of. In this essay, i argue that certain injustices faced by mentally disabled persons are epistemic injustices by drawing upon epistemic injustice literature, especially as it is developed by miranda. Miranda fricker 2012 calls our attention to the phenomenon of epistemic injustice, or wrongs done against a person speci. Epistemic injustice department of philosophy university of bristol. Epistemic injustice is unfairness related to knowledge. According to fricker, there are two kinds of epistemic injustice. Epistemic justice as a condition of political freedom. Miranda fricker, fba born 12 march 1966 is an english philosopher who is currently presidential professor of philosophy at the city university of new york graduate center. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else.
Fricker coined the term epistemic injustice, the concept of an injustice done. Alternatively, you can download the pdf file directly to your computer, from where it can be opened using a pdf reader. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in order to reveal the ethical dimension of our epistemic practices the focus must shift to injustice. Resisting structural epistemic injustice philarchive.
Rae langton in this elegant and groundbreaking work, fricker names the phenomenon of epistemic injustice, and distinguishes two central forms of it, with their two corresponding remedies. In this thesis, i discuss many of these arguments, examining assertions for a mitigated attribution of both legal and moral responsibility. In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, miranda fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. 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. Call this the symptom model of epistemic injustice. Traditional theories of social justice focus on the distribution of goods and resources and the institutional framework determining this distribution. Miranda fricker, epistemic injustice power and the ethics of knowing article in ethical theory and moral practice 111 february 2007 with 56 reads how we measure reads. Epistemic injustice power and the ethics of knowing pdf.
Miranda fricker, epistemic justice as a condition of. Perfectioning trust, reinforcing testimony dialnet. Additionally, i consider an unexplored aspect within the debate of psychopathy and responsibility. Epistemic injustice occurs as a result of systemic identity prejudice, and is the name of.
The epistemology of testimony also available in format docx and mobi. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. But at least parts of it should be required reading for those involved with any system a central plank of which is the evaluation of testimony. To purchase this ebook for personal use, or in paperback or hardback format. Epistemic injustice paperback miranda fricker oxford. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. With her conception of epistemic injustice, miranda fricker has opened up new normative dimensions for epistemology. Fricker adjusts the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. In this interview miranda fricker, author of a recent book on the topic, explains this concept which lies at the intersection between epistemology and political philosophy. Epistemic injustice and illness bibliography ian james.
Power and the ethics of knowing, mind on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The term is best known because of miranda frickers book epistemic. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Testimonial injustice occurs when others fail to treat you seriously as a source of knowledge. Phil 11 lance guillory section h epistemic injustice in. But this sphere of epistemic practice can be structurally prejudiced by unequal relations of power, so that some groups suff er a distinctive kind of epistemic injustice hermeneutical injustice.
In a recent survey of current trends or fads in academic philosophy, one of the top 5 was the evolving work in epistemic injustice. The first theory of epistemic injustice was introduced in 2007 by british philosopher miranda fricker, who coined the term. Miranda fricker, epistemic injustice power and the. Fricker coined the term epistemic injustice, the concept of an injustice done against someone specifically in their capacity as a knower, and explored the concept in her 2007 book epistemic injustice.
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