What is the characteristic wrong of testimonial injustice?

Abstract In this paper, I aim to identify the wrong that is done by the hearer to the testifier in all cases of testimonial injustice. I introduce the concept of testimonial injustice, as well as the existing accounts of this characteristic wrong, and I argue that the latter don’t work. Then I present my favoured account, which adapts Rachel Fraser’s account of the wrong of aesthetic injustice. I argue that this allows us to see that certain putative stock examples of testimonial injustices in fact do not fall under the concept.

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The Philosophical Quarterly
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2025-03-17
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https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaf034
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Political Philosophy and Ethics
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What is the characteristic wrong of testimonial injustice?

Richard Pettigrew
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What is the characteristic wrong of testimonial injustice?

Richard Pettigrew
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Abstract

Abstract In this paper, I aim to identify the wrong that is done by the hearer to the testifier in all cases of testimonial injustice. I introduce the concept of testimonial injustice, as well as the existing accounts of this characteristic wrong, and I argue that the latter don’t work. Then I present my favoured account, which adapts Rachel Fraser’s account of the wrong of aesthetic injustice. I argue that this allows us to see that certain putative stock examples of testimonial injustices in fact do not fall under the concept.

The Philosophical QuarterlyVol. 75(4)
University of Bristol (GB)
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Political Philosophy and Ethics
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