The Epistemology of Resistance. Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations

A Symposium on 
The Epistemology of Resistance. Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations 
by José Medina (Vanderbilt University)
(Oxford University Press, 2012) 

In The Epistemology of Resistance, José Medina explores several epistemic aspects of our social interactions that take place under conditions of oppression and advocates the need of epistemic resistance in democratic societies in order to overcome shortcomings and failures. José Medina insists on the need to satisfy what he calls an Imperative of Epistemic Interaction. In the book, different issues on epistemic injustice, epistemic vices and virtues, epistemic authority and epistemic responsibility are discussed in detail. He pleads for a more responsible epistemic agency through interaction and resistant use of the imagination in order to repair neglect and insensitivity that underline practices of exclusion and oppression. José Medina’s book proposes to us a social epistemology that addresses oppression and develops an experiential and imaginative approach to our epistemology of democracy.
 
Main Speaker

• José Medina (Vanderbilt University)

Invited Speakers

• Linda Alcoff (CUNY Graduate Center)
• Charles Mills (Northwestern University)
• Miranda Fricker (University of Sheffield)
• Carlos Thiebaut (University Carlos III, Madrid)

Attendance to the conference is free, but space is limited.  If you would like to attend to the conference (or request further information), please contact: Jesús Vega Encabo: jesus(dot)vega(at)uam(dot)es

      Organizing Committee

• Josep E. Corbí (University of Valencia)
• Jesús Vega Encabo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
• Pepa Toribio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

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