Overcoming Epistemic Injustice
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-706-5 (ISBN)
Prejudice influences people’s thoughts and behaviors in many ways; it can lead people to underestimate others’ credibility, to read anger or hysteria into their words, or to expect knowledge and truth to ‘sound’ a certain way—or to come from a certain type of person. These biases and mistakes can have a big effect on everything from an institutional culture to an individual’s self-understanding. These kinds of intellectual harms are known as epistemic injustice.
Most people are opposed to unfair prejudices (at least in principle), and no one wants to make avoidable mistakes. But research in the social sciences reveals a disturbing truth: Even people who intend to be fair-minded and unprejudiced are influenced by unconscious biases and stereotypes. We may sincerely want to be epistemically just, but we frequently fail, and simply thinking harder about it will not fix the problem.
The essays collected in this volume draw from cutting-edge social science research and detailed case studies, to suggest how we can better tackle our unconscious reactions and institutional biases, to help ameliorate epistemic injustice. The volume concludes with an afterward by Miranda Fricker, who catalyzed recent scholarship on epistemic injustice, reflecting on these new lines of research and potential future directions to explore.
Benjamin R. Sherman is a visiting research scholar at Brandeis University, specializing in ethics, epistemology, and the overlap between the two fields. Stacey Goguen is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Northeastern Illinois University, specializing in feminist philosophy, philosophy of science, and social epistemology.
Introduction Ben Sherman / Part I: Managing Psychological Tendencies/1. Negative Epistemic Exemplars Emily Sullivan and Mark Alfano / 2. Positive Stereotypes: Unexpected Allies or Devil’s Bargain? Stacey Goguen / 3. Conceptualizing Consent: Hermeneutical Injustice and Epistemic Resources Audrey Yap / 4. Structural Thinking and Epistemic Injustice Nadya Vasilyeva and Saray Ayala-López / 5. The Inevitability of Aiming for Virtue Alex Madva / 6. Can Epistemic Virtues Help Combat Epistemologies of Ignorance? Emily McWilliams / Part II: Curing Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare/ 7. Epistemic Microaggressions and Epistemic Injustices in Clinical Medicine Lauren Freeman and Heather Stewart / 8. Returning to the “There Is”: PTSD, Phenomenology, and Systems of Knowing MaryCatherine McDonald / 9. Pathocentric Epistemic Injustice and Conceptions of Health Ian Kidd and Havi Carel / 10. Uncovering Prejudice and Where It Lives: Stereotype Mapping in Professional Domains Elianna Fetterolf / 11. Epistemic Injustice in Careers: Insights from a Study with Women Surgeons Katrina Hutchison / Part III: Arresting Epistemic Injustice in the Legal and Correctional Systems / 12. The Episteme, Epistemic injustice, and the Limits of White Sensibility Lissa Skitolsky /13. Carceral Medicine and Prison Abolition: Trust and Truth-telling in Correctional Healthcare Andrea J. Pitts / 14. Epistemic Injustice and Medical Neglect in Ontario Jails: The Case of Pregnant Women Harry Critchley / Part IV: Learning to Overcome Epistemic Injustice in Academia, Education, and Sports / 15. Teaching as Epistemic Care Casey Rebecca Johnson /16. When Testimony Isn’t Enough: Implicit Bias Research as Epistemic Exclusion Lacey J. Davidson / 17. Gaslighting as Epistemic Violence: “Allies,” Mobbing, and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Including a Case Study of Harassment of Transgender Women in Sport Rachel McKinnon /
19. Afterword Miranda Fricker / Index / About the Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.07.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 151 x 219 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78660-706-9 / 1786607069 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78660-706-5 / 9781786607065 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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