epistemic disadvantage
📖 Definitions
"Epistemic disadvantage occurs when non-deliberate, asymmetrical relations exclude person(s) from social participation, leading to an intellectual or moral harm. In other words, epistemic disadvantage marks when a person or group is warrantedly excluded from knowledge exchanges, but the exclusion results in an intellectual or moral harm" (Goldstein 2022, 1862).
💡 Examples
- Curare case: doctors assign a deflationary epistemic status to patients' reports of awareness and pain during surgery using novel (and, it turns out, non-anaelgesic) anaesthetic
🔗 Relations
- similar to: epistemic injustice
- distinct from: epistemic injustice
📚 References
- Goldstein, Rena Beatrice. 2022. “Epistemic Disadvantage.” Philosophia 50 (4): 1861–78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00465-w