Robin Dembroff (Yale University): Publications - PhilPeople

Yale University

Regular Faculty

Slineyville (historical), Connecticut, United States of America

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Content-Focused Epistemic Injustice
with Dennis Whitcomb

In Tamar Szabó Gendler, John Hawthorne & Julianne Chung (eds.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 7, Oxford University Press. pp. 48-70. 2023.

There has been extensive discussion of testimonial epistemic injustice, the phenomenon whereby a speaker’s testimony is rejected due to prejudice regarding _who they are_. But people also have their testimony rejected or preempted due to prejudice regarding _what they communicate_. Here, the injustice is _content-focused_. We describe several cases of content-focused injustice, and we theoretically interrogate those cases by building up a general framework through which to understand them as a g…Read more
There has been extensive discussion of testimonial epistemic injustice, the phenomenon whereby a speaker’s testimony is rejected due to prejudice regarding _who they are_. But people also have their testimony rejected or preempted due to prejudice regarding _what they communicate_. Here, the injustice is _content-focused_. We describe several cases of content-focused injustice, and we theoretically interrogate those cases by building up a general framework through which to understand them as a genuine form of epistemic injustice that stands in intertwined relationships to other forms of epistemic injustice.