Nadja El Kassar (2021) argues that collective intellectual self-trust can both block the negative effects of epistemic injustice and support active resistance to it. Collectives enable those who might otherwise suffer the corrosive effects of having their epistemic capacities routinely… Read More ›
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Echo Chambers, Epistemic Injustice, and Ignorance, Amandine Catala
The connections between echo chambers, on the one hand, and epistemic injustice and ignorance, on the other hand, are important to identify and theorize, and have indeed started to draw the attention of philosophers working on these issues (Nguyen 2020;… Read More ›
Emancipatory Activist Movements Can Build Collective Intellectual Self-Trust—But Not Always in Ways We Would Like, Inkeri Koskinen
Nadja El Kassar (2020) argues that intellectual self-trust, both individual and especially collective, is a central tool for countering epistemic injustice. It can help individuals and collectives to defend themselves against the effects of epistemic injustice, and especially collective intellectual… Read More ›
Contextualising Epistemic Injustice in Aid: On Colliding Interests, Colonialism and Counter-Movements, Susanne Koch
I am truly honored that Venkatesh Vaditya found my article “’The Local Consultant Will Not Be Credible’: How Epistemic Injustice is Experienced and Pracised in Development Aid” worthy of being discussed on the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, and… Read More ›
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 ›
Nonculpably Ignorant Meat Eaters & Epistemically Unjust Meat Producers, Cheryl Abbate
In the United States (U.S.) alone, nearly 10 billion farmed animals are raised and killed for food each year, and approximately 99% of these animals are raised in factory farms, where they are mutilated without anesthetic, confined to cramped and… Read More ›
Are Meat-Eaters Epistemically Unlucky? Bob Fischer
Thanks to the editors of the SERRC for the opportunity to comment on C. E. Abbate’s excellent essay, “The Epistemology of Meat-Eating.” Abbate’s goal is to explain why most meat-eaters continue consuming animal products after having learned about the plight… Read More ›
Suicidology is for Cutting: Epistemic Injustice and Decolonial Critiques, Jennifer White
Within suicidology, “cutting” most often refers to self-harming practices, which are generally conceptualized as pathological, problematic and a target for professional intervention. And yet, there are alternative (subjugated) meanings, informed by those who engage in self-harm, which can offer some… Read More ›
Dismissive Incomprehension Revisited: Testimonial Injustice, Saving Face, and Silence, Matthew Cull
Manuel Padilla Cruz has written an excellent response piece (Padilla Cruz 2019) to my initial article (Cull 2019) on dismissive incomprehension, where he raises a number of interesting issues and has put forward a number of excellent ideas for avenues for… Read More ›
Richly Trustworthy Allies, William Tuckwell
Here’s a plausible definition of an ally: an individual who supports a non-dominant group’s pursuit of their justice-based interests. One way to develop a more detailed theory of an ally is by specifying ‘support a non-dominant group’s pursuit of their… Read More ›