
Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
The Dig
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Deference Epistemology
In theory, knowledge is socially situated and marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge. In practice, what we often see instead is what you call deference epistemology. So if you stare at number three, research programs ought to reflect these facts about how knowledge situated and who gets what kinds of knowledge,. it doesn't tell you how, in and of itself. And there's been a lot of discussion by on the standpoint epistemologists of many different areas of thought and practice.
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