Overview
- Combines an analysis of the epistemic and moral unjustness of ignorance with an argument designed to move us away from these injustices
- Expands the conversation surrounding understanding in an original and fruitful way
- Draws from cross-disciplinary sources to situate the work in current debate
Part of the book series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy (PIIP)
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About this book
This book offers a compelling examination of our moral and epistemic obligations to be reasonable people who seek to understand the social reality of those who are different from us. Considering the oppressive aspects of socially constructed ignorance, Heikes argues that ignorance produces both injustice and epistemic repression, before going on to explore how our moral and epistemic obligations to be understanding and reasonable can overcome the negative effects of ignorance.
Through the combination of three separate areas of philosophical interest- ignorance, understanding, and reasonableness- Heikes seeks to find a way to correct for epistemological and moral injustices, satisfying needs in feminist theory and critical race theory for an epistemology that offers hope of overcoming the ethical problem of oppression.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Deborah K. Heikes is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. She has published three other books: Rationality, Representation, and Race (2016); The Virtue of Feminist Rationality (2012), and Rationality and Feminist Philosophy (2010). Her main area of interest lies in feminist epistemology and the ethical implications of this epistemology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards a Liberatory Epistemology
Authors: Deborah K. Heikes
Series Title: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16485-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16484-3Published: 22 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16485-0Published: 06 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-2851
Series E-ISSN: 2946-286X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 212
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy