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This book presents novel approaches and perspectives to scholarship on epistemic injustice and particularly, testimonial injustice and their connections with public trust. It will appeal to scholars and students in critical social and political epistemology.
List of contents
Introduction: Themes from Testimonial Injustice and Trust
Part I. Rethinking Testimonial Injustice 1. Can the Demands of Justice Always Be Reconciled with the Demands of Epistemology? Testimonial Injustice and the Prospects of a Normative Clash 2. Silencing by Not Telling: Testimonial Void as a New Kind of Testimonial Injustice. 3. Testifying Bodies: Testimonial Injustice as Derivatization 4. Redefining the Wrong of Epistemic Injustice: The Knower as a Concrete Other and the Affective Dimension of Cognition 5. Bystander Omissions and Accountability for Testimonial Injustice 6. Just How Testimonial, Epistemic, Or Correctable Is Testimonial Injustice?
Part II. Testimonial Injustice and the Question of Trust 7. Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Trust 8. Trust, Distrust, and Testimonial Injustice 9. Social Media, Trust and the Epistemology of Prejudice
Part III. The Public Spheres of Testimonial Injustice 10. Articulating Understanding: A Phenomenological Approach to Testimony on Gendered Violence 11. Representation and Epistemic Violence 12. Remembrance and Denial of Genocide: On the Interrelations of Testimonial and Hermeneutical Injustice 13. "The Local Consultant Will Not Be Credible": How Epistemic Injustice Is Experienced and Practised in Development Aid 14. Electoral Competence, Epistocracy, and Standpoint Epistemologies. A Reply to Brennan
Part IV. Testimonial Injustice and Public Health 15. Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice 16. Our Epistemic Duties in Scenarios of Vaccine Mistrust 17. Misunderstanding Vaccine Hesitancy 18. Epistemology and the Pandemic Lessons from an Epistemic Crisis
About the author
Melanie Altanian is Assistant Professor at the Chair of Epistemology and Theory of Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. Previously, she was a guest lecturer at University College Dublin School of Philosophy, and research assistant in the Horizon 2020 project Policy, Expertise, and Trust in Action (PERITIA).
Maria Baghramian is Full Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and a Professor II at University of Oslo, Norway. She currently is lead investigator of the Horizon 2020 project Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action (PERITIA), which created the occasion for work on this volume.
