Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition

Paul Giladi is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is on the Steering Group of the Research Network for the Study of Race and Racism. He is also the co-director of the Naturalism, Modernity, and Civilization International Research Network. Giladi has published numerous articles in leading philosophy journals and edited collections on Hegel, pragmatism, critical social theory, feminism, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. He is also the editor of Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism and Pragmatism (Routledge, 2019) and the editor of Hegel and the Frankfurt School (Routledge, 2020). Nicola McMillan was awarded her PhD in philosophy at the University of Lancaster in 2017. Her thesis was awarded the 2018 Political Studies Association Sir Ernest Barker Prize for political theory. She co-edited a 2018 special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly with Paul Giladi on epistemic injustice and recognition theory. McMillan now works for the National Institute of Health Research in the United Kingdom, where she currently manages Join Dementia Research, a service that supports the UK public in volunteering for dementia and brain health research.

Preface, Lucius Turner Outlaw Jr.

Introduction, Nicola McMillan

Part I: Recognition Theory and Critical Social Epistemology in Conversation

Axel Honneth, Two Interpretations of Social Disrespect: A Comparison Between Epistemic and Moral Recognition
Danielle Petherbridge, A Fourth Order of Recognition? Accounting for Epistemic Injustice in Recognition Theory
Cynthia R. Nielsen & David Utsler, Gadamer, Fricker, and Honneth: Testimonial Injustice, Prejudice, and Social Esteem
Lois McNay, Recognising Disempowerment: Taking the ‘Merely Experienced’ Seriously
Kelly Oliver, Gaslighting: Pathologies of Recognition and the Colonisation of Psychic Space
Paul Giladi, Epistemic Exploitation and Ideological Recognition
Ezgi Sertler, Calling Recognition Bluffs: Structural Epistemic Injustice and Administrative Violence
Mari Mikkola, Ideal Theory, Epistemologies of Ignorance, and (Mis)Recognition
Part II: Making Sense of Contemporary Social-Epistemic Struggles

Katherine O’Donnell, Commission to Inquire into Ireland’s Mother & Baby Homes: An Epistemology of Ignorance
Rebecca Tsosie, Constitutional Law and Epistemic Injustice: Hate Speech, Stereotyping, and Recognition Harm
Debra L. Jackson, Male Sexual Victimisation, Failures of Recognition, and Epistemic Injustice
Lauren Freeman & Heather Stewart, The Problem of Recognition, Erasure, and Epistemic Injustice in Medicine: Harms to Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Patients – Why We Should Be Worried
Wendy Carlton & Katrina Hutchison, Epistemic Injustice and Misrecognition in the Sphere of Work: The Case of Women in Surgery