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Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing

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Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing - Fricker, Miranda
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Epistemic Injustice explores a form of injustice which has so far been largely ignored in English-language philosophy: epistemic injustice -- that is to say, a wrong suffered in one's capacity as a knower. Miranda Fricker distinguishes two forms of epistemic injustice: testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice. In connection with both, she argues that our testimonial sensibility needs to incorporate a corrective, anti-prejudicial virtue that can be used to promote a more veridical and a more democratic epistemic ...

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Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing 2007, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198237907

Hardcover