When someone experiences an epistemic wrong, all else being equal, we ought to rectify the wrong. This intuition underpins the increasing interest in epistemic reparation. Epistemic reparations are intentional actions that provide epistemic goods to those who have been wronged, aimed at addressing acknowledged epistemic wrongs. While it is accepted that perpetrators have a duty to offer epistemic reparation, I argue here that the victims possess an imperfect duty to remember and recount their st…
Read moreWhen someone experiences an epistemic wrong, all else being equal, we ought to rectify the wrong. This intuition underpins the increasing interest in epistemic reparation. Epistemic reparations are intentional actions that provide epistemic goods to those who have been wronged, aimed at addressing acknowledged epistemic wrongs. While it is accepted that perpetrators have a duty to offer epistemic reparation, I argue here that the victims possess an imperfect duty to remember and recount their stories, with significant discretion. This duty is not grounded on the reparations owed to them. It is based on broader epistemic obligations, such as the duty to utilise their epistemic advantage to promote justice, etc. Arguing for this point trains our attention on the victims and their various expressions of epistemic agency under conditions of oppression.
