Aug 2026· Revista de filosofia de la Universidad de Costa Rica· Vol 65· 0 citations· 35 references
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This article explores the relationship between objectivity and epistemic injustice. It aims to question the guiding principles of scientific objectivity through criteria of epistemic justice, seeking to identify whether these principles create conflicts for objectivity. To this end, discourse analysis has been employed, focusing primarily on the construction of the notion of objectivity and the conditions of epistemic injustice established by Miranda Fricker. The text presents an historical approach to the conceptualization of objectivity, followed by an introduction to the characteristics of epistemic injustice, contrasting these with cases and critiques developed within various non-classical epistemic perspectives. The article argues for the existence of a structural epistemic bias that implies conditions under which epistemic injustice is not only possible or occasional but also appears as a habitual manifestation in knowledge production processes.
Recent developments in the debate on epistemic injustice have expanded the original concept to include abstracta as epistemically unjust. Drawing on these arguments, we propose to distinguish between inherent conceptional epistemic injustice and contingent conception-mediated epistemic injustice. Applying this distinct...
Anke Jahn, Thor Hennelund Nielsen· Philosophy and Medicine· 0 citations
Abstract Most people have a need to regard their significant life choices as justified. More than that, they want to be able to give acceptable justificatory reasons to the people in their social milieu. In this paper, I argue that structural disadvantage can lock people into a situation in which they struggle to appea...
Gloria Mähringer· Moral Philosophy and Politic...· 0 citations
This article proposes a critical reading of gaslighting and impostorism
as relational effects of what will be termed positional injustice: a form of
harm that simultaneously undermines a subject’s epistemic and affective
self-trust by systematically placing them in a position of testimonial
invalidation. Drawing on...
M. Christiansen· Revista Colombiana de Cienci...· 0 citations
This paper examines the interpretation of philosophical preconceptions as a central activity of teaching philosophy. Complementing approaches that focus primarily on learners’ preconceptions as starting points of inquiry, it develops an account of the epistemic structure of the teacher’s interpretive activity. Drawing...
N. Höppner· Journal of didactics of phil...· 0 citations
This article examines epistemic injustice and the politics of scientific knowledge in Bonnie Garmus’s novel Lessons in Chemistry. The study explores how gender inequality, institutional exclusion, and social authority influence the production and recognition of scientific knowledge in the fictional world of the 1950s a...
When, if ever, is it permissible to afford special consideration to friends and family? How can we strive to be objective in our thinking, and is this always a feasible or appropriate aim?
This book examines the categories of impartiality and objectivity by showing how they frame certain debates in epistemology, moral...
DeLapp Kevin· 0 citations
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