Abstract
Miranda Fricker has suggested that issues in the theory of justice should be extended into epistemology. This paper examines her claim that we sometimes fail to take the testimony of others seriously because of identity prejudice and her claim that people may be denied the interpretative resources to understand the wrongs done to them. Fricker's individualistic focus has drawn criticism; in this paper I develop an independent account of epistemic injustice, its connection to domination, and whether it ought to receive an individualistic or a social explanation. Epistemic injustice may well be within the scope of informal norms and not directly within the ambit of the state. But our ideals of democratic citizenship are not restricted to this narrow scope, either, and that is a clue to the correct way to resolve the issue of whether or not epistemic injustice is to be corrected by individual virtue alone.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Justice (the Virtues) |
| Editors | Mark LeBar |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 209–236 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0190631740 |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Sept 2018 |