Dr Paul Giladi will be presenting at the Critical Theory Feminism Conference at the University of the West of England on 'Epistemic injustice: A role for recognition?'.
This conference brings together philosophers working in Critical Theory and Feminism with political theorists and professional psychoanalysts in an interdisciplinary context to develop a compelling new perspectives on gendered oppression. By combining Frankfurt School Critical Theory and feminist concerns and applying both to the different feminist approaches themselves, such new perspectives can offer compelling normative framework(s).
Paul will be presenting the following paper titled 'Epistemic injustice: A role for recognition?'.
His aim here is to propose that an insightful way of articulating the feminist concept of epistemic injustice can be provided by paying significant attention to recognition theory. The paper intends to provide an account for diagnosing epistemic injustice as a social pathology and also attempts to paint a picture of some social cure of structural forms of epistemic injustice. Under this approach, societies are gauged by the degree to which all individuals have equal opportunities for self-realisation afforded to them by the intersubjective structures of recognition. Given this, when somebody or a social group is not adequately recognised, such an instance is a damning indictment of society on the grounds that its moral grammar fails to encourage symmetrical cognitive environments and leaves individuals who are prejudiced against in a state of self-alienation.
Dr Paul Giladi is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Philosophy at Manchester Met. His approach to philosophy combines perspectives from Hegel, pragmatism, critical social theory, feminism, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. His research crosses philosophical traditions that have remained distinct and one of the motivations in my work is to demonstrate how a heterogeneous framework can yield a richer and more robust analysis for a variety of questions in Ethics and Politics, the Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics.
Thursday, 11th April 2019