Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal) publie un nouvel article intitulé « A pluralist account of epistemic repair » dans la revue Philosophical Studies.

Résumé

Recent accounts of epistemic agency and injustice have shown that both notions are greatly enriched and more accurately construed when they are taken to include not only propositional knowledge (knowing-that) but also experiential knowledge, including practical knowledge (knowing-how) and tacit, embodied, and affective knowledge (knowing what-it’s-like). What can such a pluralist account tell us about epistemic repair? This paper aims to tease out the implications of a pluralist account of knowledge, epistemic agency, and epistemic injustice for epistemic repair. The paper is divided into two main parts. I first introduce what has been termed a “pluralist” account of knowledge, epistemic agency, and epistemic injustice, explaining why it is descriptively more complete and normatively more inclusive, and why it might therefore be useful for projects of epistemic repair. I then draw on this pluralist account to develop an original account of epistemic repair. I propose a fivefold framework to flesh out what epistemic repair involves, centered around five questions: (i) what are we repairing, or the objects of epistemic repair; (ii) who is repairing, or the agents of epistemic repair; (iii) why or with what aim, or the goal of epistemic repair; (iv) where, or the sites of epistemic repair; and (v) how, or the mechanisms of epistemic repair. I illustrate my account of epistemic repair with two examples, focusing respectively on Indigenous relations and on neurodiverse relations.