Just Knowledge: Workshop on Miranda Fricker’s book "Epistemic Injustice"

JUST KNOWLEDGE: Workshop on Miranda Fricker’s book "Epistemic Injustice" and Public Lecture by Miranda Fricker on “Explaining Forgiveness”  

Department of Philosophy,  Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), 

Tilburg University, The Netherlands  

December 9, 10h-18 (workshop) Dante Building, Room DZ 4 and  December 10, 11.00h (public lecture) Dante Building, Room DZ 7  

Keynote Speaker: Miranda Fricker (Sheffield University)  

Commentators: Boudewijn de Bruin (University of Groningen) Kathryn Brown (Tilburg University) Silvia Ivani (TiLPS, Tilburg University) Alan Thomas (TiLPS, Tilburg University) Machteld Geuskens (TiLPS, Tilburg University)  

Organizer: Hanno Sauer (TiLPS, Tilburg University)  

Traditional theories of social justice focus on the distribution of  goods and resources and the institutional framework determining this  distribution. In her groundbreaking book “Epistemic Injustice. Power &  The Ethics of Knowing” (OUP 2009), Miranda Fricker (Sheffield) argues  that such theories suffer from a characteristic blind spot: they  overlook the fact that there are some injustices which affect subjects  specifically as subjects of knowledge. Some people are excluded from the  flow of information, whilst some groups are, by default, distrusted in  their capacity to give reliable testimony. This workshop aims to discuss  the important topic of epistemic injustice and to develop an assessment  of its merits for issues in epistemology and political philosophy.  

Everybody is cordially invited to attend the workshop and the public  lecture. Registration is free of charge, but participants are requested  to send an email to [email protected].