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 ›
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Social Imaginary and Epistemic Discrimination: From Global Justice to Epistemic Injustice, Venkatesh Vaditya
The situation of injustice can be defined when someone is denied the value or thing that is otherwise ‘due’ to them or ought to be theirs. They are denied such a value because of their historico-structural location at the margins…. 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 ›
Coloniality, Global Power Asymmetry and Epistemic Liberation, Venkatesh Vaditya
Colonialism, as a political structure and form of domination, has long ended in Africa and other southern countries. However, the power asymmetry in the world political economy persists as colonialism’s historical legacy. The structural domination of colonialism in the postcolonial… Read More ›
‘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 ›
A Rational Disagreement about Myside Bias, Keith E. Stanovich
Who says that book reviewing is dead? Within just a couple of weeks of the appearance of my new book, The Bias That Divides Us, it received two reviews that were in-depth and theoretically astute—one destined for the American Journal… Read More ›
Confronting Fake News Through Non-Ideal Epistemology: A Reply to Croce and Piazza, Regina Rini
In their paper arguing that ‘educational’ solutions to fake news are superior to ‘structural’ solutions, Michel Croce and Tommaso Piazza (2021) challenge my earlier (Rini 2017) claim that the spread of fake news results (partly) from an individually reasonable practice… Read More ›
What Rationality? A Comment on Levy’s “Is Conspiracy Theorising Irrational?” Stephan Lewandowsky, Anastasia Kozyreva, and James Ladyman
Neil Levy (2019) provides several new angles on the long-standing question about the rationality, or lack thereof, of people who accept objectively unwarranted conspiracy theories. Levy’s position rests on two arguments. First, accepting conspiracy theories is subjectively rational for many… Read More ›
The Suppression of Dissent During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell B. Liester
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided fertile ground for an ever-growing number of controversies—and an expanding list of cases of suppression of dissent. Fueling scientific and medical disputes are institutional, political, cultural, and economic factors that employ a wide range of… Read More ›
A Response to “Uptake of a Conspiracy Theory Attribution: Part 1 and 2” by Brian Martin, Samantha Vanderslott
The two-part article by Brian Martin contains two main points. The first is his argument of Conspiracy Theory Attribution (CTA) as a method of denigration, which I have little to disagree with. The second is the example given of the… Read More ›