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Epistemic injustice is injustice related to knowledge. It includes exclusion and silencing ; systematic distortion or misrepresentation of one's meanings or contributions; undervaluing of one's status or standing in communicative practices; unfair distinctions in authority; and unwarranted distrust.
Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society broadly. [1] [2] Disability models are useful for understanding disagreements over disability policy, [2] teaching people about ableism, [3] providing disability-responsive health care, [3] and articulating the life experiences of disabled people.
This is a list of epistemologists, that is, people who theorize about the nature of knowledge, belief formation and the nature of justification. This list is by necessity incomplete, since countless other philosophers also deal with epistemological issues in their work.
Epistemic innocence is a psychological phenomenon that applies to epistemically costly and epistemically beneficial cognition. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It determines the relationship between a cognition's psychological and epistemic benefits.
Research on epistemic cognition has drawn on research in epistemology, the area of philosophy concerned with the nature of knowledge. [1] The seminal work in the area is characterised as research on student development and as an area of developmental psychology. More recent work has sought to situate epistemic cognition in a broad non ...
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge.Also called theory of knowledge, it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience.
Justification (also called epistemic justification) is a property of beliefs that fulfill certain norms about what a person should believe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Epistemologists often identify justification as a component of knowledge distinguishing it from mere true opinion. [ 3 ]
"Epistemic Injustice and Illness", with Ian James Kidd, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 34 (2017): 172-190. [ 20 ] "Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare Encounters: Evidence from Chronic Fatigue Syndome", with C. Blease and K. Geraghty, Journal of Medical Ethics , 43 (2017): 549-557.