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discriminatory epistemic injustice

📖 Definitions

fundatmentally a form of (direct or indirect)discrimination. e.g., the cause of testimonial injustice is a prejudice. Meant to leave room for a kind of epistemic injustice that is primarly "distributive injustice" i.e., someone receiving less than their fair share of an epistemic good, such as education or access to expert advice or information (Fricker 2007, 53; cf. David Coady 2010; 2017)

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📚 References

  • Fricker, Miranda. 2017. "Evolving Concepts of Epistemic Injustice." In The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice, edited by I. J. Kidd, L. Medina, G. Jr. Pohlhaus. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212043.
  • Coady, David. 2010. “Two Concepts of Epistemic Injustice.” Episteme 7 (2): 101–13. https://doi.org/10.3366/epi.2010.0001.
  • Coady, David. 2017. "Epistemic Injustice as Distributive Injustice." In The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice, edited by I.J. Kidd, J. Medina, and G. Pohlhaus, Jr. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212043