Gender, race, and group disagreement

Miragoli, M. and Simion, M. (2020) Gender, race, and group disagreement. In: Broncano-Berrocal, F. and Carter, J. A. (eds.) The Epistemology of Group Disagreement. Series: Routledge studies in epistemology. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 125-138. ISBN 9780367077426 (doi: 10.4324/9780429022500-7)

Abstract

This paper has two aims. The first is critical: it argues that our mainstream epistemology of disagreement does not have the resources to explain what goes wrong in cases of group-level epistemic injustice. The second is positive: we argue that a functionalist account of group belief and group justification delivers an account of the epistemic peerhood relation between groups that (1) accommodates minority and oppressed groups, and (2) diagnoses the epistemic injustice cases correctly as cases of unwarranted belief on the part of the oppressor group.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Simion, Professor Mona and Miragoli, Martin
• Authors: Miragoli, M., and Simion, M.
• Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy
• Research Group: COGITO Epistemology Research Centre
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9780367077426
• Published Online: 24 November 2020
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2021 Taylor and Francis
• First Published: First published in The Epistemology of Group Disagreement: 9-45
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy