Author: Fricker, Miranda

Price: $30.28

Category:Philosophy
Publication Date:2009-09-28T00:00:01Z
Pages:208
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0199570523
ISBN:13:9780199570522
Epistemic Injustice explores a form of injustice which has so far been largely ignored in English-language philosophy: epistemic injustice - that is to say, a wrong suffered in one's capacity as a knower. Miranda Fricker distinguishes two forms of epistemic injustice: testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice. In connection with both, she argues that our testimonial sensibility needs to incorporate a corrective, anti-prejudicial virtue that canbe used to promote a more veridical and a more democratic epistemic practice.