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Miranda Fricker

2007

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Beyond one false belief, what capacities and participation are taken away when someone is not recognized as a knower?

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Fricker — Injustice through credibility deficits and missing interpretive resources

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Beyond one false belief, what capacities and participation are taken away when someone is not recognized as a knower?

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    Testimonial injustice occurs when identity prejudice unfairly deflates a speaker's credibility and impairs their capacity to transmit knowledge.

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    • Epistemic Injustice

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    Hermeneutical injustice arises when structural gaps in collective interpretive resources obstruct understanding and communication of a social experience.

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    • Epistemic Injustice

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  1. 2007

    Epistemic Injustice formulates inequalities of credibility and interpretation as distinct wrongs in the ethics of knowing.

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