BOOK LAUNCH
The Chair is delighted to announce the launch of Amandine Catala’s new book, The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice: Situating Epistemic Power and Agency (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Welcome
Created in 2019 as part of the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency is based in the Department of Philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and held by Professor Amandine Catala.
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Project description
A person experiences epistemic injustice if they are not adequately believed or understood because they belong to a non-dominant social group (e.g., women, sexual minorities, Indigenous people, people racialized as non-white, disabled people or neurominoritized people). Epistemic injustice undermines epistemic agency, that is, participation in the exchange and production of knowledge. Epistemic injustice undermines epistemic agency, i.e. participation in the exchange and elaboration of knowledge.
The Chair's research program aims to develop the explanatory and normative potential of the concept of epistemic injustice by
1. analyzing important social problems in light of this concept;
2. refining the conceptualization and taxonomy of this concept; and
3. considering how to counteract epistemic injustice.