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Is there an epistemic advantage to being oppressed?Noûs 57 (3): 618-640. 2023.Do the oppressed have an epistemic advantage when it comes to knowing about the systems that oppress them? If so, what explains this advantage? In this paper, I consider whether an epistemic advantage can be derived from the oppressed's contingent tendency to have more relevant experiences and motivation than the non‐oppressed; or, alternatively, whether an advantage derives from the oppressed's very lived experience, thus being in principle unavailable to the non‐oppressed. I then explore the p…Read more
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Epistemology |
Epistemic Normativity |
Practical Reason |
Social Epistemology |
Philosophy of Action |
Normative Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |