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Testimonial Injustice and Trust
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 introduced by Fricker (2007), and the role that trust can play in fostering testimonial justice. Through the application of theories of epistemic injustice, and testimonial injustice, to new contexts and cases, including gendered violence, disability, indigenous knowledge, genocide, vaccine hesitancy and the COVID-19 pandemic, the book sheds light on the real-world significance of these philosophical concepts.
Testimonial Injustice and Trust introduces new directions for further research and will appeal to scholars and students in (critical) social and political epistemology, normative ethics as well as social and political philosophy more generally. The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Social Epistemology and Educational Philosophy and Theory.
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.
