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Centering Epistemic Injustice

Epistemic Labor, Willful Ignorance, and Knowing Across Hermeneutical Divides

Kamili Posey

In Centering Epistemic Injustice: Epistemic Labor, Willful Ignorance, and Knowing Across Hermeneutical Divides, Kamili Posey asks what it means for accounts of epistemic injustice to take seriously the lives and perspectives of socially marginalized knowers. The first part of this book takes up the predominant account of testimonial injustice offered by Miranda Fricker, arguing that testimonial injustice is not merely about the epistemic harms perpetrated by dominant knowers against marginalized knowers, but also about the strategies that marginalized knowers use to circumvent those harms. Such strategies expand current conceptions of epistemic injustice by centering how marginalized knowers engage and resist in hostile epistemic environments. The second part of the book examines Fricker’s concept of hermeneutical injustice, rooted in hermeneutical marginalization. Thinking alongside critics of hermeneutical injustice, Centering Epistemic Injustice explores the relationship between dominant knowing and marginalized knowing and asks if social power—including the power to shape collective resources and ways of meaning-making—makes it impossible for dominant knowers to know and “hear well” across hermeneutical divides. Finally, the book asks whether hermeneutical divides are real divides in understanding and how dominant knowers might come to be better knowers in the pursuit of a more thoroughgoing epistemic justice.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 162 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-7257-6 • Hardback • August 2021 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-4985-7259-0 • Paperback • March 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
Subjects: Philosophy / Epistemology, Political Science / Human Rights, Social Science / Sociology / General

Kamili Posey is assistant professor of philosophy at the City University of New York, Kingsborough.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Testimonial Virtue and Testimonial Justice

Chapter 2: Epistemic Labor, Epistemic Dissonance, and Epistemic Disavowal

Chapter 3: Hermeneutical Marginalization and Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance

Chapter 4: Disagreement, Implicit Bias Interventions, and Evolving Epistemic Frameworks

Chapter 5: Epistemic Charity, Epistemic Standpoints, and Structural Epistemic Justice

References

Index

About the Author

"By focusing on the epistemic practices of marginalized groups, Kamili Posey provides a timely expansion of Miranda Fricker’s concept of epistemic injustice, introducing new concerns for, and providing novel solutions to, a—perhaps the—central problem in epistemology and social justice. For Posey, achieving epistemic justice requires shifting epistemic burdens from marginalized knowers to dominant knowers at the societal and institutional, rather than the individual, level. Addressing questions of epistemic injustice from the perspective of race, Posey’s book provides both a refreshing assessment of the existing literature as well as a bold proposal for future work. It will be a 'must-read' for anyone interested in the connections between epistemology, social justice, philosophy of race, and political philosophy."


— Amanda Favia, Nassau Community College


"Posey’s book makes a compelling case for a fresh approach to epistemic injustice, grounded in the perspective of marginalized knowers and shifting focus from individual remedies and 'epistemic charity' to the questions of social power that lie at the root of the problem. It is essential reading for anyone interested in epistemic injustice and related issues."


— Ornaith O'Dowd, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College


Centering Epistemic Injustice

Epistemic Labor, Willful Ignorance, and Knowing Across Hermeneutical Divides

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Hardback
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Summary
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  • In Centering Epistemic Injustice: Epistemic Labor, Willful Ignorance, and Knowing Across Hermeneutical Divides, Kamili Posey asks what it means for accounts of epistemic injustice to take seriously the lives and perspectives of socially marginalized knowers. The first part of this book takes up the predominant account of testimonial injustice offered by Miranda Fricker, arguing that testimonial injustice is not merely about the epistemic harms perpetrated by dominant knowers against marginalized knowers, but also about the strategies that marginalized knowers use to circumvent those harms. Such strategies expand current conceptions of epistemic injustice by centering how marginalized knowers engage and resist in hostile epistemic environments. The second part of the book examines Fricker’s concept of hermeneutical injustice, rooted in hermeneutical marginalization. Thinking alongside critics of hermeneutical injustice, Centering Epistemic Injustice explores the relationship between dominant knowing and marginalized knowing and asks if social power—including the power to shape collective resources and ways of meaning-making—makes it impossible for dominant knowers to know and “hear well” across hermeneutical divides. Finally, the book asks whether hermeneutical divides are real divides in understanding and how dominant knowers might come to be better knowers in the pursuit of a more thoroughgoing epistemic justice.

Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 162 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-1-4985-7257-6 • Hardback • August 2021 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
    978-1-4985-7259-0 • Paperback • March 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
    Subjects: Philosophy / Epistemology, Political Science / Human Rights, Social Science / Sociology / General
Author
Author
  • Kamili Posey is assistant professor of philosophy at the City University of New York, Kingsborough.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction

    Chapter 1: Testimonial Virtue and Testimonial Justice

    Chapter 2: Epistemic Labor, Epistemic Dissonance, and Epistemic Disavowal

    Chapter 3: Hermeneutical Marginalization and Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance

    Chapter 4: Disagreement, Implicit Bias Interventions, and Evolving Epistemic Frameworks

    Chapter 5: Epistemic Charity, Epistemic Standpoints, and Structural Epistemic Justice

    References

    Index

    About the Author

Reviews
Reviews
  • "By focusing on the epistemic practices of marginalized groups, Kamili Posey provides a timely expansion of Miranda Fricker’s concept of epistemic injustice, introducing new concerns for, and providing novel solutions to, a—perhaps the—central problem in epistemology and social justice. For Posey, achieving epistemic justice requires shifting epistemic burdens from marginalized knowers to dominant knowers at the societal and institutional, rather than the individual, level. Addressing questions of epistemic injustice from the perspective of race, Posey’s book provides both a refreshing assessment of the existing literature as well as a bold proposal for future work. It will be a 'must-read' for anyone interested in the connections between epistemology, social justice, philosophy of race, and political philosophy."


    — Amanda Favia, Nassau Community College


    "Posey’s book makes a compelling case for a fresh approach to epistemic injustice, grounded in the perspective of marginalized knowers and shifting focus from individual remedies and 'epistemic charity' to the questions of social power that lie at the root of the problem. It is essential reading for anyone interested in epistemic injustice and related issues."


    — Ornaith O'Dowd, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College


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