Sentences with phrase «epistemic privilege»

We have a nasty habit in certain quarters of science of giving an arbitrary epistemic privilege or standing to something simply because it exists, or was published.

It need not be obeyed, and the justification of disobedience in this case is not a special kind of expertise guaranteed by epistemic privilege but rather by the demands of justice.

[34] Bat - Ami Bar On, «Marginality and Epistemic Privilege,» in Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter, eds., Feminist Epistemologies (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 96 - 97.

Although the empowerment of its own members is an important goal for every marginalized social group, by claiming an authority based in epistemic privilege the group reinscribes the values and practices used to socially marginalize it by excluding its voice, silencing it and commanding its obedience to the voice of the dominant group.