Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing Format: Paperback

Miranda Fricker

ISBN 10: 0199570523 / ISBN 13: 9780199570522

Published by Oxford University Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199570523
• ISBN 13: 9780199570522
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in order to reveal the ethical dimension of our epistemic practices the focus must shift to injustice. Fricker adjusts the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice.

The book explores two different types of epistemic injustice, each driven by a form of prejudice, and from this exploration comes a positive account of two corrective ethical-intellectual virtues. The characterization of these phenomena casts light on many issues, such as social power, prejudice, virtue, and the genealogy of knowledge, and it proposes a virtue epistemological account of testimony. In this ground-breaking book, the entanglements of reason and social power are traced in a new way, to reveal the different forms of epistemic injustice and their place in the broad pattern of social injustice.

About the Author

Miranda Fricker is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College.