Epistemic injustice : power and the ethics of knowing / Miranda Fricker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fricker, Miranda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Ethics.

Justice (Philosophy).

Fairness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 188 pages)

Other Title:

Power and the ethics of knowing

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-184) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9786611147198

0-19-957052-3

1-281-14719-2

0-19-151930-8

1-4356-2061-5

OCLC:

183915514