Concept
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Epistemic injustice
Concept · 2 readings
Epistemic injustice takes two forms here: prejudice that unfairly lowers a speaker’s credibility, and gaps in shared understanding connected to exclusion. What would each require an institution to change?
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Guided course · Module 13 · Lesson 83
Can responsibility survive causal explanation?
Hume, van Inwagen and Fischer disagree about the control that responsibility requires. The lesson separates three ideas their arguments rely on: causal determination, alternative possibilities and responsiveness to reasons.
Guided course · Module 13 · Lesson 78
Who is heard, and who is treated as credible?
Fricker separates prejudice against a speaker from gaps in shared understanding and proposes remedies; Harding argues for changing where inquiry begins. The lesson adds that a starting point still needs testing.