Pragmatic Encroachment and the Challenge from Epistemic Injustice

Mikkel Gerken

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I present a challenge to epistemological pragmatic encroachment theories from epistemic injustice. The challenge invokes the idea that a knowing subject may be wronged by being regarded as lacking knowledge due to social identity prejudices. However, in an important class of such cases, pragmatic encroachers appear to be committed to the view that the subject does not know. Hence, pragmatic encroachment theories appear to be incapable of accounting for an important type of injustice – namely, discriminatory epistemic injustice. Consequently, pragmatic encroachment theories run the risk of obscuring or even sanctioning epistemically unjust judgments that arise due to problematic social stereotypes or unjust folk epistemological biases. In contrast, the epistemological view that rejects pragmatic encroachment – namely, strict purist invariantism – is capable of straightforwardly diagnosing the cases of discriminatory epistemic injustice as such. While the challenge is not a conclusive one, it calls for a response. Moreover, it illuminates very different conceptions of epistemology’s role in mitigating epistemic injustice.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftPhilosophers' Imprint
Vol/bind19
Udgave nummer15
Sider (fra-til)1-19
StatusUdgivet - maj 2019

Fingeraftryk

Epistemic Injustice
Epistemological
Purist
Conception
Prejudice
Social Identity
Folk
Invariantism
Injustice
Stereotypes

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Gerken, Mikkel. / Pragmatic Encroachment and the Challenge from Epistemic Injustice. I: Philosophers' Imprint. 2019 ; Bind 19, Nr. 15. s. 1-19.
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