Workshop on
Miranda Fricker’s ‘Epistemic Justice’
Tilburg, December 9-10, 2015
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Synopsis
The Department of Philosophy and the Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics,
and Philosophy of Science will organize a workshop on Miranda Fricker’s
'Epistemic Injustice'.
Traditional theories of social justice focus on the distribution of goods and
resources and the institutional framework determining this distribution. In her
groundbreaking book Epistemic Injustice. Power & The Ethics of Knowing (OUP
2009), Miranda Fricker (Sheffield) argues that such theories suffer from a
characteristic blind spot: they overlook the fact that there are some injustices
which affect subjects specifically as subjects of knowledge. Some people are
excluded from the flow of information, whilst some groups are, by default,
distrusted in their capacity to give reliable testimony. This workshop aims to
discuss the important topic of epistemic injustice and to develop an assessment
of its merits for issues in epistemology and political philosophy.
Public Lecture
The workshop will be followed by a public lecture by Miranda Fricker, titled:
'Explaining Forgiveness'
Speaker
Miranda Fricker
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