Miranda Fricker is Reader in the School of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: Testimonial Injustice


• 2: Prejudice In The Credibility Economy


• 3: Towards A Virtue Epistemological Account of Testimony


• 4: The Virtue of Testimonial Justice


• 5: The Genealogy of Testimonial Justice


• 6: Original Significances: The Wrong Revisited


• 7: Hermeneutical Injustice


• Conclusion


• Index

Epistemology as it has traditionally been pursued has been impoverished by the lack of any theoretical framework conducive to revealing the ethical and political aspects of our epistemic conduct. Miranda Fricker shows that virtue epistemology provides a general epistemological idiom in which these issues can be fruitfully and forcefully discussed.