{"id":15749,"date":"2026-04-15T03:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ect-seminar-aidan-mcglynn-edinburgh\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:08:07","slug":"ect-seminar-aidan-mcglynn-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ect-seminar-aidan-mcglynn-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"ECT Seminar: Aidan McGlynn Epistemic injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Delineating Epistemic Injustice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The notion of epistemic injustice wasn\u2019t originally intended to be a catch-all term for harms generated by or within our epistemic practices (such as our practice of testimony). Fricker\u2019s project was one of\u00a0<em>delineation<\/em>; she wanted to \u2018delineate a distinctive class of wrongs, namely those in which someone is ingenuously downgraded and\/or disadvantaged in respect of their status as an epistemic subject\u2019 (2017: 53). She was, she wrote in\u00a0<em>Epistemic Injustice<\/em>, trying to renegotiate \u2018a stretch of the border\u2019 between ethics and epistemology (2007: 2): not offer a comprehensive framework for understanding the interactions and the traffic across the full length of that border. I suggest we take the idea that the philosophical project concerning epistemic injustice to be one of delineation rather than epistemic empire-building more seriously than the recent literature has tended to. I\u2019ll say something about what\u2019s in danger of getting lost in the constant pressure to expand the scope of the concept, drawing an analogy to concepts such as gaslighting (as understood in Kate Abramson\u2019s work) and coersive control, and I\u2019ll re-examine some of the criticisms of Fricker\u2019s approach, such as Kristie Dotson\u2019s charge that she problematically offers a \u2018closed conceptual structure\u2019 (2012). If there\u2019s time, I\u2019ll also broach the question whether we should subsume epistemic injustice under some other general theory of epistemic harms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delineating Epistemic Injustice The notion of epistemic injustice wasn\u2019t originally intended to be a catch-all term for harms generated by or within our epistemic practices (such as our practice of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5],"class_list":["post-15749","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-epistemology-seminar","cat_epistemology-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16001,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15749\/revisions\/16001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15749"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=15749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}