Mudd, Sasha and Bobadilla, Hernán (2024) Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice.
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Despite a growing effort in recent years to theorize epistemic justice as a species of distributive justice from within a Rawlsian framework, there is as yet no well-worked out capabilities-based account. In this paper, we set out to provide one. According to our sufficientarian conception, epistemic justice requires a distribution of capabilities that ensures to all individuals opportunities for minimal epistemic agency, publicly conceived. We argue that this conception has advantages over existing resourcist accounts of distributive epistemic justice inspired by Rawls as well as over Miranda Fricker’s tentative capabilities-based alternative. We contend that epistemic justice concerns a plurality of capabilities for epistemic agency, where the scope and nature of these capabilities is ultimately left open to discernment through public reasoning, but where equal emphasis is placed on contributing as well as retrieving epistemic goods and resources from common pools and on exerting combined capabilities as well as developing internal ones in the first place.
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| Keywords: | Epistemic justice; distributive justice; capabilities; epistemic agency | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Hernan Bobadilla | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2025 17:07 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2025 17:07 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 27441 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Date: | 2024 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/27441 |
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