epistemic diversity work

📖 Definitions

"Making use of existing diversity involves using people with theoretical perspectives or social locations different from one’s own as a means of doing better science by using them to increase the diversity of views in one’s communities. ... The person being used as a source of diversity is doing what I call epistemic diversity work. Such work can be manifested in a number of ways, including talking to members of a community about their research and commenting on or reviewing grant applications or papers" (Fehr 2011, 141).

🔗 Relations

• produces: effective epistemic diversity
• part of: diversity work

📚 References

• Fehr, Carla. 2011. “What Is in It for Me? The Benefits of Diversity in Scientific Communities.” In Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, edited by Heidi Grasswick. Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-1-4020-6835-5

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