epistemic trademarking
📖 Definitions
Appropriation and branding of bodies of knowledge claims and practices as a trademark of one community. "A label or mark in scientific discourse (e.g. ‘Maxwell’s equations’) becomes an epistemic trademark (e.g. ‘Maxwellian electromagnetic theory’) when it ends up concealing the complex historical lineages and blurring the epistemic contributions of various communities." (Massimi, 2022, p. 356)
💡 Examples
- Biopiracy
🔗 Relations
- depends on: epistemic severing
- type of: epistemic injustice
- equivalent to: epistemic extractivism
📚 References
- Massimi, Michela. 2022. Perspectival Realism. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.