| Description |
1 online resource (x, 188 pages) |
| Contents |
Testimonial injustice -- Prejudice in the credibility economy -- Towards a virtue epistemological account of testimony -- The virtue of testimonial justice -- The genealogy of testimonial justice -- Original significances : the wrong revisited -- Hermeneutical injustice |
| Summary |
"In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in order to reveal the ethical dimension of our epistemic practices the focus must shift to injustice. Fricker adjusts the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. The book explores two different types of epistemic injustice, each driven by a form of prejudice, and from this exploration comes a positive account of two corrective ethical-intellectual virtues. The characterization of these phenomena casts light on many issues, such as social power, prejudice, virtue, and the genealogy of knowledge, and it proposes a virtue epistemological account of testimony. In this ground-breaking book, the entanglements of reason and social power are traced in a new way, to reveal the different forms of epistemic injustice and their place in the broad pattern of social injustice."--Book cover. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes of philosophy, but sometimes we would do well to focus instead on injustice. This book argues that there is a distinctively epistemic genus of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Wissen. gnd |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Ethics.
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Justice (Philosophy)
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Fairness.
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Ethics
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epistemology.
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Ethics
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Fairness
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Justice (Philosophy)
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Ethik
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Gerechtigkeit
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Ungerechtigkeit
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Erkenntnistheorie
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Onrechtvaardigheid.
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Kennis.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
9780191519307 |
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0191519308 |
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9781281147196 |
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1281147192 |
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9780191706844 |
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0191706841 |
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