Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition
Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition
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This volume examines the relationship between recognition theory and key developments in critical social epistemology. It explores how far certain kinds of epistemic injustice, epistemic oppression, and types of ignorance can be understood as distorted varieties of recognition.
"In this rich collection of new papers, each contribution brings the resources of recognition theory into a fruitful conversation with those of epistemic injustice. Together they deliver a rewarding set of discussions that multiplies our tools for understanding the various phenomena in both theoretical domains. In particular, the idea of misrecognition is especially helpful in focusing attention on the phenomenology of epistemic injustice, bringing a distinctive psychological interpretation to our ways of thinking about its intrinsic wrong. I fully expect this collection to inspire many more such illuminating conceptual collaborations."
Miranda Fricker, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center CUNY, USA
“Giladi and McMillan’s volume offers provocative explorations of the relationship between recognition theory and epistemic injustice, enriching and complicating both bodies of literature and opening new venues for research in critical social epistemology. Part I of the book contains powerful elucidations of epistemic and moral forms of recognition, of social esteem and disrespect, of recognition pathologies and ideological misrecognition, and of cultural and institutional forms of epistemic violence. Building on these compelling theoretical discussions, part II of the book develops case studies of contemporary social struggles in which epistemic mistreatment resulting from recognition deficits or distortions take center stage in different areas of public life, including the law, social policy, and medicine. All the chapters in the book contribute to shed light on the complex and multifaceted role of recognition in unjust epistemic practices and dynamics that differentially empower and disempower social groups through prejudicial patterns of knowledge/ignorance, understanding/misunderstanding, and perception/misperception. This superb collection of essays is a must-read for anyone interested in normative issues concerning how oppressed and vulnerable groups are misrecognized and mistreated in public life, and how different forms of misrecognition and epistemic mistreatment can be diagnosed and resisted.”
José Medina, Northwestern University, USA
Paul Giladi is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is on the Steering Group of the Research Network for the Study of Race and Racism. He is also the co-director of the Naturalism, Modernity, and Civilization International Research Network. Giladi has published numerous articles in leading philosophy journals and edited collections on Hegel, pragmatism, critical social theory, feminism, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. He is also the editor of Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism (Routledge, 2019) and the editor of Hegel and the Frankfurt School (Routledge, 2020).
Nicola McMillan was awarded her PhD in philosophy at the University of Lancaster in 2017. Her thesis was awarded the 2018 Political Studies Association Sir Ernest Barker Prize for political theory. She co-edited a 2018 special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly with Paul Giladi on epistemic injustice and recognition theory. McMillan now works for the National Institute of Health Research in the United Kingdom, where she currently manages Join Dementia Research, a service that supports the UK public in volunteering for dementia and brain health research.