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Varieties of Hermeneutical Injustice 1
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Hermeneutical injustice is the phenomenon that occurs when the intelligibility of communicators is unfairly constrained or undermined, when their meaning-making capacities encounter unfair obstacles, or when a gap in collective interpretive resources puts someone at an unfair advantage when it comes to making sense of their social experience. This chapter elucidates different versions and dimensions of the concept of hermeneutical injustice and how it relates to issues of epistemic responsibility. It suggests that there are forms of hermeneutical injustices that are so damaging that they can result in hermeneutical death, that is, in phenomena that radically constrain one&s;s hermeneutical capacities and agency such as the following: the loss of one&s;s voice, of one&s;s interpretative capacities, or of one&s;s status as a participant in meaning-making and meaning-sharing practices. The chapter addresses different possible classifications of hermeneutical injustices and how these classifications offer conceptual resources for diagnosing cases of hermeneutical injustices and for identifying ways of resisting hermeneutical marginalization.
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“show how algorithmic profiling can prevent individuals from accessing and meaningfully interpreting important aspects of their experiences (Fricker, 2007; Medina, 2017; Pohlhaus, 2017).”
From Algorithmic profiling as a source of hermeneutical injustice (2025) · cites this paper as Medina, 2017
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“As is noted in the work of Pohlhaus [42], Wanderer [50] and Medina [28], there are points of disagreement about Fricker's proposal, but the general lines along which she distinguished epistemic injustice have solidified into acceptance.”
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“Not only can this 'being wronged in its capacity as a knower' be distributive as well as discriminatory [28], and structural as well as incidental [50], its empirical manifestations are also fundamentally diverse.”
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“Helpfully, José Medina [28], pp.45-46) distinguishes between semantically and performatively induced hermeneutical injustices.”
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“Medina [28], p. 47) also introduces a 'radical' variant of hermeneutical injustice that is worthy of a subclass in the taxonomy, because it takes hermeneutical injustice to an extremity qua depth.”
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“insofar as this imbalance arises from the design or deployment of such AI systems, we might also speak of 'systemic', 'structural', or 'institutional' epistemic injustices (Medina, 2017;Pohlhaus Jr, 2017)”
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- Authors
- Medina, J.
- Corresponding author
- Medina, José
- ORCID
- Medina, José
- Venue
- The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2017-03-31
- Pages
- 41-52
- OpenAlex
- W4229951751
- Cited by
- 222
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 31.37
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Theory and Philosophy
- Keywords
- hermeneutical injustice, epistemic responsibility, marginalized voices, meaning-making, agency
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