What Structural Injustice Theory Leaves Out

Structural Differences in Insular Cortex Reflect Vicarious Injustice Sensitivity

Sensitivity to injustice inflicted on others is a strong motivator of human social behavior. There are, however, enormous individual differences in vicarious injustice sensitivity. Some people are strongly affected when witnessing injustice, while others barely notice it, but the factors behind this heterogeneity are poorly understood. Here we examine the neuroanatomical basis of these differen...

Explaining Injustice in Speech: Individualistic vs. Structural Explanation

Implicit bias has recently gained much attention in scholarly attempts to understand and explain different forms of social injustice by identifying causally relevant mental states in individual’ minds. Here we question the explanatory power of implicit bias in a particular type of injustice, testimonial injustice, and more generally in what we call speech injustice. Testimonial injustice occurs...

Situating the geographies of injustice in democratic theory

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Permanent Injustice: Rawls' Theory of Justice and the Digital Divide

There are more than 700 million current Internet users, but the world population is approximately 6 billion (Trend 2001), indicating that computer technology is used by less than one-eighth of the population. Computers are becoming common tools in schools, often viewed as a democratic panacea despite the costs involved and despite the fact that the majority does not have access to computers and...

Political Philosophy and Racial Injustice: From Normative to Critical Theory