Forum on Miranda FRICKER’s Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing Précis
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This paper summarizes key themes from my Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (OUP, 2007); and it gives replies to commentators.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008