PHIL 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Miranda Fricker, Reductionism, Transphobia
30 Oct 2018
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Miranda fricker, epistemic injustice and a role for virtue in the politics of knowing . Testimony: the practice of gaining knowledge by being told. You need to read the article, in order to comprehend it. It will be evident in your essays if you understand fricker"s position. There is a lot of detail in every paragraph, you won"t need to know all of the ideas. It is a 20 page into to that argument. Essay topic: if you want to do your own you can on fricker, is her account a good way to understand what it means to be a responsible hearer. Yes it is a virtue theoretic account of testimony. Essentially what she does, is try to articulate how we might understand what it means to know from being told. We"ve looked at two different theories: reduction: so long as you can verify that testimony yourself.
