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epistemic agential injustice

📖 Definitions

'"Agential epistemic injustice involves the discriminatory mistreatment of the epistemic agency of members of marginalized groups; more specifically, it consists in cases in which the exercise of the epistemic agency of members of marginalized groups is unfairly constrained, manipulated, or subverted" (Medina 2022, 322).

💡 Examples

  • "In the American prison system incarcerated subjects are blocked from participation in collective inquiry,including collective learning about their living conditions and about their own bodies: their capac-ity to give testimony about their health and their capacity to air grievances about their well-beingare blocked or severely restricted and undermined" (Medina 2022, 322).

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📚 References

  • Medina, José. 2022. “Group Agential Epistemic Injustice: Epistemic Disempowerment and Critical Defanging of Group Epistemic Agency.” Philosophical Issues 32 (1): 320–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/phis.12221.