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138Gender, Race & Group DisagreementIn Adam Carter & Fernando Broncano-Berrocal (eds.), The Epistemology of Group Disagreement, . pp. 125-138. 2020.This paper has two aims. The first is critical: it argues that our mainstream epistemology of disagreement does not have the resources to explain what goes wrong in cases of group-level epistemic injustice. The second is positive: we argue that a functionalist account of group belief and group justification delivers (1) an account of the epistemic peerhood relation between groups that accommodates minority and oppressed groups, and (2), furthermore, diagnoses the epistemic injustice cases corre…Read more
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85Conformism, Ignorance & Injustice: AI as a Tool of Epistemic OppressionEpisteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology. forthcoming.From music recommendation to assessment of asylum applications, machine-learning algorithms play a fundamental role in our lives. Naturally, the rise of AI implementation strategies has brought to public attention the ethical risks involved. However, the dominant anti-discrimination discourse, too often preoccupied with identifying particular instances of harmful AIs, has yet to bring clearly into focus the more structural roots of AI-based injustice. This paper addresses the problem of AI-based…Read more
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34Gender, race, and group disagreementIn Fernando Broncano-Berrocal & J. Adam Carter (eds.), The Epistemology of Group Disagreement, . pp. 125-138. 2020.This paper has two aims. The first is critical: it argues that our mainstream epistemology of disagreement does not have the resources to explain what goes wrong in cases of group-level epistemic injustice. The second is positive: we argue that a functionalist account of group belief and group justification delivers an account of the epistemic peerhood relation between groups that accommodates minority and oppressed groups, and diagnoses the epistemic injustice cases correctly as cases of unwarr…Read more
Martin Miragoli
University Of Glasgow
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University Of GlasgowDepartement Of PhilosophyDoctoral student
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Collective Epistemology |
Skepticism |
Philosophy of Mind |