At the time of what was perhaps distastefully called ‘Gulf War 2’ (sounding much like a video game sequel) in 2002, a charge of ‘excessive hubris’ was levelled against Tony Blair, then Prime Minister of the UK, by Dr David… Read More ›
Month: June 2021
‘Epistemic Injustice’ in Aid Sector and Agenda for Researching National Development Experts, Palash Kamruzzaman
Susanne Koch, reflecting on her experience of working in the development aid sector, asserts that ‘experts from within the aid-receiving countries are subject to discriminatory credibility judgment based on their identity and that this seems to happen not incidentally but… Read More ›
The Affective Component of Intellectual Self-Trust: A Reply to Jones, Nadja El Kassar
Thanks to Karen Jones for her valuable comment on my article. Let me start by agreeing with Jones’s observations about the role of trust-responsiveness for individual intellectual self-trust and “flourishing communities of inquiry” (Jones 2021, 2). I would add that… Read More ›
A Dialogue on Intellectual Self-Trust: Replies to Congdon and Koskinen, Nadja El Kassar
Many thanks to Matthew Congdon (2021) and Inkeri Koskinen (2021) for their inspiring replies. They demonstrate the great potential of individual and collective intellectual self-trust and give me the opportunity to develop and clarify my remarks in the original article… Read More ›
On Justifying Epistocratic Political Institutions: A Reply to Samuel Bagg, Cyril Hédoin
Samuel Bagg (2021) has provided a sharp and thoroughly argued reply to my article “The ‘Epistemic Critique’ of Epistocracy and Its Inadequacy” (Hédoin 2021). This article was itself largely motivated by recent contributions intending to reject epistocracy based on what… Read More ›
Why Park’s Argument from Double Spaces is Not a Problem for Relative Realism, Moti Mizrahi
Abstract In this paper, I reply to Seungbae Park’s (2021)
Extending the Limits of Epistemic Neglect, Carla Carmona
The concept of epistemic neglect (EN) fills a conceptual lacuna by identifying a kind of epistemic injustice exercised by educators when they fail to extend ‘hopeful trust’, that is, the kind of trust that is knowingly extended despite the lack… Read More ›
Giving, Receiving, and the Virtue of Testimonial Justice, Shannon Brick
In “Silencing by Not Telling: Testimonial Void as a New Kind of Testimonial Injustice” (2021) Carla Carmona claims to have identified a new kind of testimonial injustice. The newly identified injustice is called testimonial void. Testimonial void occurs when a… Read More ›
Echo Chambers, Epistemic Injustice and Anti-Intellectualism, Carline Klijnman
C. Thi Nguyen’s (2020) recent account of echo chambers as social epistemic structures that actively exclude outsiders’ voices has sparked debate on the connection between echo chambers and epistemic injustice (Santos 2021; Catala 2021; Elzinga 2021). In this paper I… Read More ›
Tomasello, Vygotsky, and the Phylogenesis of Mind: A Reply to Potapov’s “Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking,” Chris Drain
I appreciate Kyrill Potapov’s recent response “Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking.” There, Potapov defends Vygotsky against my view that Tomasello’s account of the role of joint intentionality in the phylogenesis of human… Read More ›