Abstract Can AI developers be held epistemically responsible for the processing of their AI systems when these systems are epistemically opaque? And can explainable AI (XAI) provide public…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Epistemic injustice wrongs someone in their “capacity as a knower” (Fricker 2007). One way to suffer epistemic injustice is to be subject to deficits of intelligibility. That is to be prevented from…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
How should the pursuit of knowledge be organized, given that under normal circumstances knowledge is pursued by many human beings, each working on a more or less well-defined body of knowledge and each equipped with roughly the same imperfect cognitive capacities, albeit with varying degree of access to one another’s activities?| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
[Y]et we underestimate the power of Africa to renew contemporary social theory at our expense—Achille Mbembe, 2010. I n “Overcoming Eurocentrism: Exploring Ethiopian Modernity Through Entangled…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In her challenging book Epistemic Care (2023), Casey Rebecca Johnson argues that we have epistemic obligations to one another that stem from our social interdependence as knowers.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I would like to thank the editors for the opportunity to respond to this piece, and Wendy Xin for writing such a thought-provoking article. To summarise Xin’s main argument: there is an epistemic cost…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Hermeneutical injustice occurs when our epistemic environment systematically fails to provide the tools we need to make sense of our own experiences. I claim that an instance of hermeneutical…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
