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Epistemic privilege or privileged access is the philosophical concept that certain knowledge, such as knowledge of one's own thoughts, can be apprehended directly by a given person and not by others. [1] This implies one has access to, and direct self-knowledge of, their own thoughts in such a way that others do not. [2]
In philosophy and epistemology, epistemic theories of truth [1] ... a perspective is a community enforced by power, authority, military might, privilege, etc. So, a ...
Authority of the bootmaker, sometimes called epistemic authority, [1] is a concept in anarchist philosophy describing a type of temporary, fully voluntary authority that an individual allows another to have over them in order to gain knowledge or experience.
Metaepistemology is the branch of epistemology and metaphilosophy that studies the underlying assumptions of epistemology, including those concerning the nature, aims and methodology of epistemology, and the existence and authority of epistemic facts and reasons. [1]
The epistemic privilege thesis states that there is some epistemic advantage to being in a position of marginalization. [3] In response to critiques that early standpoint theory treated social perspectives as monolithic or essentialized, social theorists understand standpoints as multifaceted rather than unvarying or absolute. [4]
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.
Intellectual responsibility (also known as epistemic responsibility) is the quality of being adequately reflective about the truth of one's beliefs. [1] People are intellectually responsible if they have tried hard enough to be reflective about the truth of their beliefs, aiming not to miss any information that would cause them to abandon those beliefs as false.
Epistemic advantage is a term used within feminist theory when attempting to acquire knowledge from the individual lives and experiences of different women.The term is used to describe the ways in which women, and other minority groups, are able to have a much clearer understanding of how the power structure works within a given society because they are not members of the dominant group.