Table Of ContentEpistemic Injustice and the Philosophy
of Recognition
This volume includes original essays that examine the underexplored
relationship between recognition theory and key developments in critical
social epistemology. Its aims are to explore how far certain kinds of epis-
temic injustice, epistemic oppression, and types of ignorance can be
understood as distorted varieties of recognition and to determine whether
contemporary work on epistemic injustice and critical social epistemol-
ogy more generally have significant continuities with theories of recogni-
tion in the Frankfurt School tradition. Part I of the book focuses on
bringing recognition theory and critical social epistemology into direct
conversation. Part II is devoted to analysing a range of case studies that
are evocative of contemporary social struggles.
The essays in this volume propose answers to a number of thought-
provoking questions at the intersection of these two robust philosophical
subfields, such as the following: how well can different types of epistemic
injustice be understood as types of recognition abuses? How useful is it
to approach different forms of social oppression as recognition of injus-
tices and/or as involving epistemic injustice? What limitations do we dis-
cover in either or both recognition theory and the ever-expanding
literature on epistemic injustice when we put them into conversation with
each other? How does the conjunction of these two accounts bear on
specific domains, such as questions of silencing?
Epistemic Injustice and the Philosophy of Recognition heralds new
directions for future research that will appeal to scholars and students
working in critical social epistemology, social and political theory, conti-
nental philosophy, and a wide range of critical social theories.
Paul Giladi is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan
University, where he is on the Steering Group of the Research Network
for the Study of Race and Racism. He is also the co-director of the
Naturalism, Modernity, and Civilization International Research Network.
Giladi has published numerous articles in leading philosophy journals
and edited collections on Hegel, pragmatism, critical social theory, femi-
nism, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. He is also the
editor of Responses to Naturalism: Critical Perspectives from Idealism
and Pragmatism (Routledge, 2019) and the editor of Hegel and the
Frankfurt School (Routledge, 2020).
Nicola McMillan was awarded her PhD in philosophy at the University
of Lancaster in 2017. Her thesis was awarded the 2018 Political Studies
Association Sir Ernest Barker Prize for political theory. She co-edited a
2018 special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly with Paul Giladi on
epistemic injustice and recognition theory. McMillan now works for the
National Institute of Health Research in the United Kingdom, where she
currently manages Join Dementia Research, a service that supports the
UK public in volunteering for dementia and brain health research.
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
List of Contributors xii
Preface: Toward a Sociology of Social Critiques xvii
LUCIUS TURNER OUTLAW JR.
Introduction: Starting the Conversation 1
NICOLA MCMILLAN
PART I
Recognition Theory and Critical Social Epistemology
in Conversation 9
1 Two Interpretations of Social Disrespect: A Comparison
between Epistemic and Moral Recognition 11
AXEL HONNETH
2 A Fourth Order of Recognition? Accounting for
Epistemic Injustice in Recognition Theory 36
DANIELLE PETHERBRIDGE
3 Gadamer, Fricker, and Honneth: Testimonial Injustice,
Prejudice, and Social Esteem 63
CYNTHIA R. NIELSEN AND DAVID UTSLER
4 Recognising Disempowerment: Taking the ‘Merely
Experienced’ Seriously 88
LOIS MCNAY
