epistemic severing

📖 Definitions

"Epistemic severing is the act of cutting off specific historically and culturally situated communities to historically remove or blur their contbutions to historical lineages in the scientific knowledge production." (Massimi 2022, 350)

💡 Examples

• Not mentioning kelp labourers' role in producing glass instrumentation for electromagnetic experimentation

🔗 Relations

• type of: epistemic injustice
• type of: informational injustice

📚 References

• Massimi, Michela. 2022. Perspectival Realism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197555620.001.0001

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