Powerlessness and Social Interpretation
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Episteme
- Vol. 3 (1-2), 96-108
- https://doi.org/10.3366/epi.2006.3.1-2.96
Abstract
Our understanding of social experiences is central to our social understanding more generally. But this sphere of epistemic practice can be structurally prejudiced by unequal relations of power, so that some groups suffer a distinctive kind of epistemic injustice—hermeneutical injustice. I aim to achieve a clear conception of this epistemicethical phenomenon, so that we have a workable definition and a proper understanding of the wrong that it inflicts.Keywords
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