Knowledge and trust : what we can learn from the debates about epistemic injustice
- My aim in this paper is to make the debates about epistemic injustice fruitful for an analysis of trust in the knowledge of others. Epistemic trust is understood here in a broad sense: not only as trust in scientific knowledge or expert knowledge, but also as trust in implicit, positioned and experience-based knowledge. Using insights from discussions of epistemic injustice, I argue for three interrelated theses: 1. Questions of epistemic trust and trustworthiness cannot be answered with reference to individual virtue alone; rather, they have a structural component. 2. The rationality of epistemic trust must be analyzed against the background of social structures and social relations of domination. 3. Epistemic trust is (also) a political phenomenon and epistemically just relations depend on political transformation processes that promote equality.
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| Author: | Regina Schidel |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-737446 |
| Series (Serial Number): | ConTrust Working Paper Series (No. 7) |
| Publisher: | ConTrust - Trust in Conflict. Research Centre “Normative Orders” of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/04/28 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2023/04/28 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/04/28 |
| Tag: | Trust; epistemic (in)justice; epistemic trust; knowledge; social epistemology |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |
