Epistemic Injustice

Harvard FAS

Who do we believe, and who do we dismiss? Who tend to get treated as trustworthy, credible sources of information, and who tend not to? Whose voices get amplified and whose get silenced? Whose ideas are taken up and whose are ignored? Whose problems get studied, and who lacks the educational, financial, personal, emotional, or political resources and opportunities to adequately study theirs? Who gets to be ignorant?<br>These are all central questions in the study of epistemic injustice.…