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Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing

By Miranda Fricker

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2007
ISBN
0198237901, 9780198237907
LCC
BD176 .F75 2007
Google Books ID
4DO3jU4ARU4C
Open Library ID
OL10138414M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1060967 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
199\199
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

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. 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. Fricker adjusts the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. 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 two corrective ethical-intellectual virtues. The characterization of these phenomena casts light on many issues, such as social power, prejudice, virtue, and the genealogy of knowledge, and it proposes a virtue epistemological account of testimony. In this ground-breaking book, the entanglements of reason and social power are traced in a new way, to reveal the different forms of epistemic injustice and their place in the broad pattern of social injustice.

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