Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing explores how social power influences the ways people are heard, believed, and recognized as sources of knowledge. This philosophical study considers the ethical consequences of unfairness in communication, interpretation, and shared understanding.
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Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing examines the relationship between knowledge, power, and ethics.
The book focuses on situations in which people may be unfairly treated as knowers or prevented from contributing to shared understanding.
Miranda Fricker considers how social and ethical dynamics can influence whose testimony is believed and whose experiences are understood.
It offers a philosophical framework for thinking about injustice in the practices through which people communicate, interpret, and exchange knowledge.
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