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On the Harms of Epistemic Injustice
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Sullivan, Shannon |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | This chapter examines the type of harms caused by testimonial and hermeneutical injustice and argues that Fricker's account of epistemic harm would be improved by the pragmatist epistemology provided by John Dewey. While Fricker's discussion of epistemic injustice tends to rely on a representational account of knowledge, Dewey's pragmatism understands knowledge as transactional. Considering knowledge as transactional rather than representational recasts the harm of epistemic injustice as a harm done to the flourishing of a human organism, rather than as an unfair exclusion from a process of pooling of knowledge. Conceiving the harm of epistemic injustice as a type of ontological-environmental damage can help feminists, critical philosophers of race, and others more effectively understand and counter the harmful effects of testimonial injustice. This notion of harm also better explains what Fricker herself is trying to achieve when she describes the effects of hermeneutical injustice as damaging constructions of selfhood. John Dewey, testimonial injustice, hermeneutical injustice. Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice |
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| Ending Page | 212 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| Starting Page | 205 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315212043-20 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2017-03-31 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice History Fricker's Epistemic Injustice Testimonial Hermeneutical Representational Transactional Account |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
