Epistemic Injustice in Life Science

Concepts we use both in everyday life and used in sciences are undergoing very fast changes in their meainings. Some of these changes are slow paced and disorganized, but some are very structural. Epistemic injustice has been quite central to many discussions within philosophy and social sciences since Fricker’s (2007) seminal work. Ever since, the usage of various kinds of epistemic injustices have been quite central to many debates within philosophy. In this course, after introducing the notion of epistemic injustice, I aim to adapt various forms of ethics of knowing within biosciences to answer new challenges that are not answered through the shortcoming of traditional bioethics.

Content

Introduction to the concept of epistemic injustice.
Types and problems of knowledge ethics in the life sciences

LITERATURE RECOMMENDATION

Epistemic Injustice; Power and the Ethics of Knowing, Miranda Fricker. The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice (particularly Chapters 31, 33, 34, 38) , Ian James Kidd et. al.

COURSE ENROLLMENT AND MATERIALS

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