Kristie Dotson

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Kristie Dotson

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Pierwsze przybliżeniecelowe uproszczenie – portret mówi więcej

Uciszanie to nie tylko niesłuchanie: gdy słuchacze nie chcą lub nie potrafią usłyszeć, mówiący uczą się skracać swoje wypowiedzi – i całe sposoby poznawania zostają zamknięte na zewnątrz.

Umiejscowienie

Filozofia analityczna · Epistemologia, Społeczeństwo i historia, Płeć i feminizm

Czarna feministyczna epistemolożka z Uniwersytetu Michigan: uciszanie działa nie tylko przez niesłuchanie („uciszenie świadectwa”), ale przez zmuszanie mówiących do skracania własnego świadectwa („zduszenie świadectwa”); pewna opresja epistemiczna jest wbudowana w same systemy wiedzy.

Kluczowe idee

Uciszenie i zduszenie świadectwa
Niesprawiedliwość współtworząca
Nieredukowalna opresja epistemiczna

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Wpływ

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Dotson took the term ‘epistemic violence’ from Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ (1988) and analysed it as a failure of audiences to take up speakers’ testimony (2011). K. Dotson, “Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing”, Hypatia 26 (2011); G. C. Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, in C. Nelson and L. Grossberg (eds.), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988)
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak › ur. 1942
Patricia Hill Collins

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Dotson illustrated ‘testimonial quieting’ with Collins’s analysis of controlling images that deny Black women the standing of knowers (‘Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing’, 2011). K. Dotson, “Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing”, Hypatia 26 (2011); P. H. Collins, Black Feminist Thought (1990)
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Patricia Hill Collins › ur. 1948

Krytyka

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Miranda Fricker

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Dotson argued that Fricker’s two forms of epistemic injustice miss ‘contributory injustice’: marginalised groups have interpretive resources, but dominant knowers wilfully ignore them (‘A Cautionary Tale’, 2012). K. Dotson, “A Cautionary Tale: On Limiting Epistemic Oppression”, Frontiers 33 (2012), 24–47; “Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression”, Social Epistemology 28 (2014); M. Fricker, Epistemic Injustice (2007)
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Miranda Fricker › ur. 1966

Stanowisko

“Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing” distinguishes two forms of testimonial silencing. “Testimonial quieting” occurs when an audience fails to recognise a speaker as a knower at all – as Patricia Hill Collins showed for the controlling images imposed on Black women. “Testimonial smothering” occurs when speakers, anticipating that their audience is unwilling or unable to take up what they say, truncate their own testimony; the silencing then works through the speaker’s self-censorship, but its source is the audience’s “pernicious ignorance”. The term “epistemic violence” she takes from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Further papers widen Fricker’s account of epistemic injustice: “contributory injustice” occurs when marginalised groups do have concepts for their experience but dominant knowers wilfully refuse to take them up, and the deepest, “third-order” epistemic oppression is irreducible, because it is built into epistemological systems themselves and can only be addressed by changing them. In “How Is This Paper Philosophy?” she criticises a “culture of justification” in academic philosophy that requires work by diverse practitioners to prove its legitimacy against narrow standards.

Życie i kontekst

Kristie Dotson came to philosophy late: she studied African American studies, business and English at Coe College and literature at the University of Illinois Chicago before taking her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Memphis in 2008. She taught at Michigan State University from 2008, latterly as professor of philosophy and of African American and African studies, and in 2021 moved to the University of Michigan, where she is University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Philosophy and of Afroamerican and African Studies. In 2023 she shared the Lebowitz Prize of the American Philosophical Association and Phi Beta Kappa with Susanna Siegel. Her work centres on Black feminist thought and epistemic oppression.