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Title: Natalie Stoljar
Hermeneutical Overwriting and the Epistemic Conditions of Autonomy
Natalie Stoljar and Nicole Ramsoomair
McGill University
Autonomy can be undermined if the epistemic conditions of autonomy are
undermined, or if other conditions of autonomy are undermined. According to
Miranda Fricker and others, ‘hermeneutical injustice’ is an epistemic
wrong: there are ‘lacunae in the collective hermeneutical resource’ that
are the result of unequal participation in ‘practices by which collective
social meanings are generated’ (Fricker 2007, 152). Does hermeneutical
injustice undermine either epistemic or other conditions of autonomy? Our
first argument is that the ‘hermeneutical gaps’ identified by Fricker need
not and typically do not undermine the epistemic conditions of autonomy.
They do not typically undermine the knowledge/self-knowledge of members of
marginalized groups, or render them ‘informationally cut off.’ However,
agents may be blocked by hermeneutical gaps from making contributions to
the pool of knowledge. Hermeneutical gaps may also interfere with the
self-regarding attitudes necessary for both epistemic and autonomous
agency. Our second argument is that hermeneutical injustice is not limited
to hermeneutical gaps. What we call hermeneutical overwriting is both an
epistemic harm and a harm to autonomy: it interferes with agents’ status as
knowers by blocking their contributions to the spread of knowledge and
interferes with their autonomy by overriding the communicative acts that
agents intend to perform.
When: Wed 23 Aug 2017 13:00 – 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: Muniment Room, Sydney Uni
Calendar: Seminars
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