EPIC seminar series: Professor Richard Pettigrew

Date: Monday 30^th September

Time: 1pm – 2:15pm

Zoom talk: https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99969362918?pwd=FsaozQDsq6w1j2BDaYwWggx5j1g5fh.1. 

Title: What is the characteristic wrong of testimonial injustice?

  

Abstract: My aim in this paper is to identify the wrong that is done in all cases of testimonial injustice, if there is one. Miranda Fricker (2007) proposes one account of this distinctive wrong, and Gaile Pohlhaus Jr. (2014) offers another. I think neither works. Nor does an account based on giving due respect to the testifier’s epistemic competence. Nor does an account based on exposing the testifier to substantial risk of harm. Rachel Fraser (2023) describes a further account, and the proposal I favour is a slight amendment of this.