ineffective epistemic diversity

📖 Definitions

"Ineffective epistemic diversity obtains when a community includes members who hold different background beliefs but does not use this diversity to generate and evaluate theories, hypotheses and data. Communities can be blocked from making use of the epistemic diversity that could be offered by their members. As will be discussed below, current research on women STEM faculty and on university cultures indicates that (1) there are likely factors acting that block women’s dissent from getting uptake, (2) cultural patterns inhibit the kinds of social interactions required for women to offer dissent and (3) there are forces that inhibit women from developing dissenting views." (Fehr, 2011, p. 148)

🔗 Relations

• type of: epistemic diversity
• similar to: hermeneutical injustice
• similar to: epistemic oppression

📚 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, 133–54. New York: Springer.

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