Investigating the Harm of Testimonial Injustice
Conference Year
January 2020
Abstract
I will be orally presenting a senior philosophy project. My paper investigates testimonial injustice, an epistemological phenomenon in which a speaker is wronged by a listener in virtue of the listener's demotion of the credibility of the speaker's testimony. My paper recharacterizes this harm by applying psychological literature on learning and conditioning such that I more accurately demonstrate the experience of the speaker in a way that shows how the harm to the speaker is actually greater than the current literature conceives.
Primary Faculty Mentor Name
Dr. Kate Nolfi
Status
Undergraduate
Student College
College of Arts and Sciences
Program/Major
Philosophy
Primary Research Category
Arts & Humanities
Investigating the Harm of Testimonial Injustice
I will be orally presenting a senior philosophy project. My paper investigates testimonial injustice, an epistemological phenomenon in which a speaker is wronged by a listener in virtue of the listener's demotion of the credibility of the speaker's testimony. My paper recharacterizes this harm by applying psychological literature on learning and conditioning such that I more accurately demonstrate the experience of the speaker in a way that shows how the harm to the speaker is actually greater than the current literature conceives.