Carter, J. A. and Meehan, D. (2023) Trust, distrust, and testimonial injustice. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(3), pp. 290-300. (doi: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2037418)
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Abstract
This essay investigates an underappreciated way in which trust and testimonial injustice are closely connected. Credibility deficit and credibility excess cases both (in their own distinctive ways) contribute to a speaker’s being harmed in her capacity a knower. But moreover, as we will show—by using the tools of a performance-theoretic framework—both credibility deficit and credibility excess cases also feature incompetent trusting on the part of the hearer. That is, credibility deficit and excess cases are shown to manifest qualities of thinkers that are inconducive to trust’s being reliably fulfilled. What this implies is an interesting result about testimonial injustice: to the extent that we want to mitigate against testimonial injustice—one promising way to do so will be to target incompetent trusting of the sort that underlies it. We conclude by outlining and defending what we take to be a promising substantive version of such a mitigation strategy, one which is centred around the cultivation of higher-order trusting competences.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Meehan, Daniella and Carter, Professor J Adam |
| Authors: | Carter, J. A., and Meehan, D. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy |
| Journal Name: | Educational Philosophy and Theory |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 0013-1857 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1469-5812 |
| Published Online: | 08 April 2022 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2022 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in Educational Philosophy and Theory 55(3): 290-300 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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