Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice.
This paper offers an account of institutional testimonial justice and describes one way that it breaks down, which we call institutional opacity. An institution is opaque when it becomes resistant to epistemic evaluation and understanding by its agents and users. When one cannot understand the inner...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 473 - 497 |
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