Organon F
Volume 28, May 2021, Issue 2, Pages 399–419
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
Common Ground, Conversational Roles and Epistemic Injustice
Felix Bräuer
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28206
People partaking in a conversation can add to the common ground of said conversation by performing different speech acts. That is, they can influence which propositions are presumed to be shared among them. In this paper, I am going to apply the common ground framework to the phenomenon of epistemic injustice. In doing so, I am going to focus on two kinds of speech acts: making assertions and asking certain kinds of questions. And I am going to look at three varieties of epistemic injustice: testimonial injustice, inquiring injus- tice and interpretative injustice. I am going to argue that what all these varieties of epistemic injustice have in common is that they unfairly inhibit the speaker’s ability to add to the common ground in the way intended by her. This in turn negatively affects which conversational roles a speaker can play in a given conversation. Based on these results, I am going to end by looking at some of the harms that epistemic injustice inflicts upon its victims.
Common ground; conversational roles; conversation-types; epistemic injustice; Miranda Fricker; Mitchell Green.
Author
Felix Bräuer 
Affiliation
Universität Mannheim
Address
Universität Mannheim, Lehrstuhl Philosophie I / L 9, 5 – Raum 007 68161 Mannheim, Germany
felix.braeuer@phil.uni-mannheim.de
Received
17 April 2019
Revised
18 October 2019
Accepted
18 December 2019
Published online
24 April 2021
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Bräuer, F. (2021). Common Ground, Conversational Roles and Epistemic Injustice. Organon F, 28(2), 399–419. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28206
Chicago
Bräuer, Felix. 2021. "Common Ground, Conversational Roles and Epistemic Injustice." Organon F 28 (2): 399–419. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28206
Harvard
Bräuer, F. (2021). Common Ground, Conversational Roles and Epistemic Injustice. Organon F, 28(2), pp. 399–419. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28206
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