1st Edition

Testimonial Injustice and Trust

Edited By Melanie Altanian, Maria Baghramian Copyright 2024
368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents novel approaches and perspectives to scholarship on epistemic injustice and particularly, testimonial injustice and their connections with public trust. Drawing from different philosophical schools of thought and approaches, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the conditions, mechanisms and normative implications of testimonial injustice, a term most prominently... Read more

Introduction: Themes from Testimonial Injustice and Trust
Melanie Altanian and Maria Baghramian

Part I. Rethinking Testimonial Injustice

1. Can the Demands of Justice Always Be Reconciled with the Demands of Epistemology? Testimonial Injustice and the Prospects of a Normative Clash
Sanford C. Goldberg

2. Silencing by Not Telling: Testimonial Void as a New Kind of Testimonial Injustice.
Carla Carmona 

3. Testifying Bodies: Testimonial Injustice as Derivatization
Carolyn M. Cusick

4. Redefining the Wrong of Epistemic Injustice: The Knower as a Concrete Other and the Affective Dimension of Cognition
Alicia García Álvarez

5. Bystander Omissions and Accountability for Testimonial Injustice
J. Y. Lee

6. Just How Testimonial, Epistemic, Or Correctable Is Testimonial Injustice?
Raymond Auerback

Part II. Testimonial Injustice and the Question of Trust

7. Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Trust
Gloria Origgi

8. Trust, Distrust, and Testimonial Injustice
J. Adam Carter and Daniella Meehan

9. Social Media, Trust and the Epistemology of Prejudice
Karen Frost-Arnold 

Part III. The Public Spheres of Testimonial Injustice

10. Articulating Understanding: A Phenomenological Approach to Testimony on Gendered Violence
Charlotte Knowles

11. Representation and Epistemic Violence
Leo Townsend and Dina Lupin

12. Remembrance and Denial of Genocide: On the Interrelations of Testimonial and Hermeneutical Injustice
Melanie Altanian

13. “The Local Consultant Will Not Be Credible”: How Epistemic Injustice Is Experienced and Practised in Development Aid
Susanne Koch

14. Electoral Competence, Epistocracy, and Standpoint Epistemologies. A Reply to Brennan
Olga Lenczewska

Part IV. Testimonial Injustice and Public Health

15. Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice
Havi Carel and Ian James Kidd

16. Our Epistemic Duties in Scenarios of Vaccine Mistrust
Giulia Terzian and M. Inés Corbalán

17. Misunderstanding Vaccine Hesitancy
Quassim Cassam

18. Epistemology and the Pandemic Lessons from an Epistemic Crisis
Petr Špecián

Biography

Melanie Altanian is Assistant Professor at the Chair of Epistemology and Theory of Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. Previously, she was a guest lecturer at University College Dublin School of Philosophy, and research assistant in the Horizon 2020 project Policy, Expertise, and Trust in Action (PERITIA).

Maria Baghramian is Full Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and a Professor II at University of Oslo, Norway. She currently is lead investigator of the Horizon 2020 project Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action (PERITIA), which created the occasion for work on this volume.