Other-Oriented Hermeneutical Injustice, Affected Ignorance, or Human Ignorance?

Social Epistemology 37 (6):852-863 (2023)
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Abstract

Paul-Mikhail Podosky introduces the notion of other-oriented hermeneutical injustice and argues that non-human animals are often the subjects of such injustice. In this paper, I argue that although the notion of other-oriented hermeneutical injustice is coherent, Podosky’s examples – including his primary case of non-human animals – are not instances of it. I attempt to show that an epistemology of ignorance serves as a better theoretical basis for Podosky’s argument. In the final section of the paper, I discuss a case that, at first glance, seems to be one of other-oriented hermeneutical injustice. However, I argue that ultimately an epistemology of ignorance gives us a better account of the case.

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Jill Dieterle
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What is White Ignorance?Annette Martín - 2021 - Philosophical Quarterly 71 (4):pqaa073.
White Ignorance.Charles Wright Mills - 2007 - In Shannon Sullivan & Nancy Tuana, Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance. State Univ of New York Pr. pp. 11-38.

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