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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...
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Scientific Misunderstanding: Notes for the Bedeviled
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