Forsell, Marko
(2025)
Virtue and Structure in Epistemic Justice at Work.
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This paper examines what is required to achieve epistemic justice in contemporary workplaces and evaluates the contribution of Miranda Fricker’s (2007) virtue-epistemological framework. Fricker’s model highlights how social identity shapes epistemic harm, but in organizational settings, epistemic justice also depends on structural features that shape whose knowledge is recognized and acted upon. Drawing on structural critiques by Elizabeth Anderson, José Medina, Kristie Dotson, and Gaile Pohlhaus, the paper develops a hybrid model that integrates epistemic virtues with workplace reform. Two workplace cases, a telemarketer performance monitoring system and a personality-based hiring process, demonstrate how virtues like open-mindedness and reflexivity remain ethically important but require enabling structures to function epistemically. The paper argues that fostering epistemic justice in workplaces depends not only on virtuous agents but on redesigning workplace conditions to redistribute interpretive authority, enhance transparency, and support dissent.
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