Leading philosophers bring the tools of contemporary epistemology to bear on some of the most pressing social and political questions facing us as agents in the world today. This volume explores a diverse range of topics as they relate to epistemology under broad themes including injustice, race, feminism, sexual consent, and the internet.

Jennifer Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, the Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Studies and Episteme. Most of her research is in the area of social epistemology and recent projects have addressed credibility and false confessions, eyewitness testimony and epistemic agency, and epistemic reparations. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution as well as the Young Epistemologist Prize, and she has received grants and fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

• Part One: Introduction


• 1: Jennifer Lackey: Applied Epistemology


• Part Two: Epistemological Perspectives


• 2: Kristie Dotson and Ezgi Sertler: When Freeing Your Mind Isn't Enough: Framework Approaches to Social Transformation and its Discontents


• 3: Quill Kukla: Situated Knowledge, Purity, and Moral Panic


• 4: Mylan Engel Jr.,: Epistemology and Ethics of Animal Experimentation


• Part Three: Epistemic and Doxastic Wrongs


• 5: Rima Basu: A Tale of Two Doctrines: Moral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging


• 6: Lauren Leydon-Hardy: Predatory Grooming and Epistemic Infringement


• Part Four: Epistemology and Injustice


• 7: Geoff Pynn: Epistemic Degradation and Testimonial Injustice


• 8: José Medina and Tempest Henning: My Body as a Witness: Bodily Testimony and Epistemic Injustice


• Part Five: Epistemology, Race, and the Academy


• 9: Charles W. Mills: The 'White' Problem: American Sociology and Epistemic Injustice


• 10: Emmalon Davis: A Tale of Two Injustices: Epistemic Injustice in Philosophy


• Part Six: Epistemology and Feminist Perspectives


• 11: Bianca Crewe and Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa: Rape Culture and Epistemology


• 12: Aidan McGlynn: Feminist Pornography as Feminist Propaganda, and Ideological Catch-22s


• Part Seven: Epistemology and Sexual Consent


• 13: Hallie Liberto: Epistemic Responsibility in Sexual Coercion and Self-Defense Law


• 14: Jennifer Lackey: Sexual Consent and Epistemic Agency


• 15: Alexander A. Guerrero: The Epistemology of Consent


• Part Eight: Epistemology and the Internet


• 16: Hanna Gunn and Michael Patrick Lynch: The Internet and Epistemic Agency


• 17: C. Thi Nguyen: How Twitter Gamifies Communication


• 18: Karen Frost-Arnold: The Epistemic Dangers of Context Collapse Online


• 19: Veronica Ivy: Yikkity Yak, Who Said That? The Epistemology of Anonymous Assertions