Objects or Others? Epistemic Agency and the Primary Harm of Testimonial Injustice.
This paper re-examines the debate between those who, with Miranda Fricker, diagnose the primary, non-contingent harm of testimonial injustice as a kind of epistemic objectification and those who contend it is better thought of as a kind of epistemic othering. Defenders of the othering account of the...
| Publicado en: | Ethical Theory & Moral Practice Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 831 - 846 |
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