Epistemic deprivation

Newey, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-3793 and Rennick, S. (2025) Epistemic deprivation. Hypatia. ISSN 1527-2001 doi: 10.1017/hyp.2024.96

Abstract/Summary

It is often claimed that gender data gaps (GDGs) are unjust, but the nature of the injustice has not been interrogated. We argue that injustices arising from such data gaps are not merely socio-political but also epistemic: they arbitrarily skew the epistemic landscape in favour of one group over another. GDGs place a greater epistemic burden on women and gender minorities; they have to do more to avoid error and the pay-off is worse: they have a smaller pool of true beliefs on which to act. We suggest that there are both pragmatic and conceptual reasons to differentiate the injustice arising from GDGs from other more familiar varieties (such as testimonial and hermeneutical injustice), and so we introduce the new concept of epistemic deprivation to capture this injustice.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/119985
Identification Number/DOI	10.1017/hyp.2024.96
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Humanities > Philosophy
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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