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978-1-78660-705-8 • Hardback • June 2019 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
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Benjamin R. Sherman is a visiting research scholar at Brandeis University, specializing in ethics, epistemology, and the overlap between the two fields.
Stacey Goguen is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Northeastern Illinois University, specializing in feminist philosophy, philosophy of science, and social epistemology.
Introduction Ben Sherman / Part I: Managing Psychological Tendencies/1. Negative Epistemic Exemplars Emily Sullivan and Mark Alfano / 2. Positive Stereotypes: Unexpected Allies or Devil’s Bargain? Stacey Goguen / 3. Conceptualizing Consent: Hermeneutical Injustice and Epistemic Resources Audrey Yap / 4. Structural Thinking and Epistemic Injustice Nadya Vasilyeva and Saray Ayala-López / 5. The Inevitability of Aiming for Virtue Alex Madva / 6. Can Epistemic Virtues Help Combat Epistemologies of Ignorance? Emily McWilliams / Part II: Curing Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare/ 7. Epistemic Microaggressions and Epistemic Injustices in Clinical Medicine Lauren Freeman and Heather Stewart / 8. Returning to the “There Is”: PTSD, Phenomenology, and Systems of Knowing MaryCatherine McDonald / 9. Pathocentric Epistemic Injustice and Conceptions of Health Ian Kidd and Havi Carel / 10. Uncovering Prejudice and Where It Lives: Stereotype Mapping in Professional Domains Elianna Fetterolf / 11. Epistemic Injustice in Careers: Insights from a Study with Women Surgeons Katrina Hutchison / Part III: Arresting Epistemic Injustice in the Legal and Correctional Systems / 12. The Episteme, Epistemic injustice, and the Limits of White Sensibility Lissa Skitolsky /13. Carceral Medicine and Prison Abolition: Trust and Truth-telling in Correctional Healthcare Andrea J. Pitts / 14. Epistemic Injustice and Medical Neglect in Ontario Jails: The Case of Pregnant Women Harry Critchley / Part IV: Learning to Overcome Epistemic Injustice in Academia, Education, and Sports / 15. Teaching as Epistemic Care Casey Rebecca Johnson /16. When Testimony Isn’t Enough: Implicit Bias Research as Epistemic Exclusion Lacey J. Davidson / 17. Gaslighting as Epistemic Violence: “Allies,” Mobbing, and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Including a Case Study of Harassment of Transgender Women in Sport Rachel McKinnon /
19. Afterword Miranda Fricker / Index / About the Contributors
Building on Miranda Fricker’s term “epistemic injustice,” Sherman (Brandeis Univ.) and Goguen (Northeastern Illinois Univ.) have collected a variety of scholarly writings dealing with specific epistemic injustices. The editors note that although a great deal of scholarship has already been devoted to analyses of epistemic injustice, their contribution has a unique interdisciplinary focus charging scholars to bring together their “ethical and epistemic arguments” using “empirical work and case studies.” The resulting volume is an intriguing and thought-provoking collection of articles on a variety of subjects including psychological tendencies, healthcare injustices, legal and correctional injustices, and injustices in academia. This collection would be most appropriate for a complete course involving justice issues, though for courses offering only one or two modules dealing with social justice, it also offers unique readings focused on how “we can do better.” The readings will elicit important conversations with students based on empirical data rather than problematic media information. It also contains interesting case studies with which students can wrestle.
Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.
— Choice Reviews
Overcoming Epistemic Injustice is a unique and valuable contribution. It brings philosophical questions to bear on how to combat epistemic injustice, and how to do so in specific contexts: in healthcare, the legal and correctional systems, education and academia, and sports. Daring, empirically-grounded, and solutions-oriented, it is a model for scholarship in pursuit of justice.
— Michael Brownstein, Associate Professor of Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
One of the most pressing issues for addressing the complex intersections between oppression and forms of epistemic injustice is how such forms of injustice can be effectively resisted and ultimately overcome. Overcoming Epistemic Injustice augments current research by focusing on case studies of institutional structures that perpetuate epistemic harms. From medical and mental health institutions to the criminal justice system to the academy to implicit bias research, the authors of this distinctive collection offer insights regarding complex circulations of power and knowledge that provide resources for challenging such structures.
— Nancy Tuana, DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University