Miranda Fricker Quotes on Justice

Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) gave contemporary social epistemology one of its most influential conceptual frameworks. The principal thesis is that there are distinctively epistemic forms of injustice — testimonial injustice, in which a speaker is given less credibility than they deserve owing to identity-prejudice on the part of the hearer, and hermeneutical injustice, in which a marginalized group lacks the conceptual resources to render its own experience intelligible to itself or to others — and that these injustices wrong their victims in their distinctive capacity as knowers. The framework has shaped subsequent feminist and anti-racist epistemology, virtue epistemology, and applied work on testimony, expertise, and democratic participation.