Is Testimonial Injustice Epistemic? Let Me Count the Ways

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ID12146397
AuthorsManuel Almagro (0000-0003-1647-9995, Universidad de Granada, corresponding author), Manuel Almagro Holgado, Llanos Navarro Laespada (Universidad de Granada), M De Pinedo (0000-0002-1530-8089, Universidad de Granada), Manuel de Pinedo García
Year2021
Volume36
Issue4
Pages657-675
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/hyp.2021.56
OpenAlexW3208604319
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

Miranda Fricker distinguishes two senses in which testimonial injustice is epistemic. In the primary sense, it is epistemic because it harms the victim as a giver of knowledge. In the secondary sense, it is epistemic, more narrowly, because it harms the victim as a possessor of knowledge. Her characterization of testimonial injustice has raised the following objection: testimonial injustice is not always an epistemic injustice, in the narrow, secondary sense, as it does not always entail that the victim is harmed as a knowledge-possessor. By adopting a perspective based on Robert Brandom's normative expressivism, we respond to this objection by arguing that there is a close connection, conceptual and constitutive rather than merely causal, between the primary and the secondary epistemic harms of testimonial injustice, such that testimonial injustice always involves both kinds of epistemic harm. We do so by exploring the logic and functioning of belief and knowledge ascriptions in order to highlight three ways in which the secondary epistemic harm caused by testimonial injustice crystallizes: it undermines the epistemic agency of the victim, the epistemic friction necessary for knowledge, and the possibility of occupying particular epistemic nodes

Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Harm · Injustice · Normative · Sociology · Testimonial · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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