CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Opie, Jasmine Peck |
|---|---|
| Title | Epistemic Justice and Expanding Horizons in Cross-Cultural Understanding |
| Summary | This thesis using the framing of the liberal-communitarian debate in political philosophy to examine the significance of collective hermeneutical resources for the possibility of cross-cultural understanding and justice. A large part of this project simply involves sketching the connections between disparate conversations in political philosophy, ethics, and epistemology. After laying out the liberal-communitarian debate in Chapter I and justifying my choice to follow a communitarian perspective, I consider the relationship between identity, recognition, justice, and language drawing from the theories of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Charles Taylor. In Chapter III, I take on the particular injustices that might be associated, in a cross-cultural context, with the failure to recognize the epistemic authority of or provide hermeneutical resources for a marginalized group. I conclude by considering objections and solutions in the context of the example of climate challenges, suggesting that Gadamer’s notion of the merging of horizons, expanded to embrace embodied practices, might allow for epistemic justice and cross-cultural understanding. |
| Supervisor | Kis, Janos |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/opie_jasmine.pdf |
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