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Epistemic Injustice Expanded: A Feminist, Animal Studies Approach

dc.creatorTuvel, Rebecca Dayna
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-22T17:20:51Z
dc.date.available2016-07-14
dc.date.issued2014-07-14
dc.identifier.urihttps://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-07102014-161455
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/12899
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation, I argue that an account of epistemic injustice sensitive to interlocking oppressions must take us beyond injustice to human knowers. Although several feminist epistemologists argue for the incorporation of all forms of oppression into their analyses, feminist epistemology remains for the most part an anthropocentric enterprise. Yet insofar as a reduction to animal irrationality has been central to the epistemic injustice of both humans and animals, I propose that in addition to axes of gender, race, class and sex, feminist epistemology must register the animal-human dichotomy as a fundamental driving mechanism inherent in epistemic injustice. From the perspective of a truly liberatory epistemology, I thus argue for an expanded account of epistemic injustice that is both 1) sufficiently attentive to the way injustices to human knowers continue to rely on animal oppression and 2) that accommodates epistemic injustices against animal knowers.
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dc.subjectfeminist social epistemology
dc.subjectepistemic injustice
dc.subjectanimal ethics
dc.subjectanimal knowledge
dc.subjectfeminist animal ethics
dc.titleEpistemic Injustice Expanded: A Feminist, Animal Studies Approach
dc.typedissertation
dc.contributor.committeeMemberJosé Medina
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLisa Guenther
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCharles Scott
dc.contributor.committeeMemberDavid Wood
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLori Gruen
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thesis.degree.namePHD
thesis.degree.leveldissertation
thesis.degree.disciplinePhilosophy
thesis.degree.grantorVanderbilt University
local.embargo.terms2016-07-14
local.embargo.lift2016-07-14
dc.contributor.committeeChairKelly Oliver


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