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Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice

Mudd, Sasha and Bobadilla, Hernán (2024) Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice. Social Epistemology. pp. 1-13.

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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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Item Type: Published Article or Volume
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Mudd, Sashaalexandra.mudd@uc.cl
Bobadilla, Hernánhernanfelipe.bobadilla@polimi.it0000-0003-0003-9952
Keywords: Epistemic justice; distributive justice; capabilities; epistemic agency
Subjects: General Issues > Ethical Issues
General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science
Depositing User: Dr. Hernan Bobadilla
Date Deposited: 16 Nov 2024 13:54
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2024 13:54
Item ID: 24234
Journal or Publication Title: Social Epistemology
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Official URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02691...
DOI or Unique Handle: https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2024.2392130
Subjects: General Issues > Ethical Issues
General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science
Date: 2024
Page Range: pp. 1-13
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24234

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