warranted exclusion

📖 Definitions

"A warranted epistemic exclusion occurs when a knower (or group of knowers) is (are) justifiably kept out of knowledge exchanges relevant to understanding their social experience" (Goldstein 2022, 1862).

💡 Examples

• "when individuals freely choose to forgo access to certain types of knowledge (e.g. choosing not to go to university, when university education is available at no cost). In these cases of voluntary epistemic exclusion, the exclusion is warranted" (Goldstein 2022, 1867)

🔗 Relations

• produces: epistemic disadvantage
• type of: epistemic exclusion

📚 References

• Goldstein, Rena Beatrice. 2022. “Epistemic Disadvantage.” Philosophia 50 (4): 1861–78. https: doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00465-w.

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