epistemic trademarking
📖 Definitions
"A label or mark in scientific discourse (e.g. ‘Maxwell’s equations’) becomes an epistemic trademark (e.g. ‘Maxwellian electromagnetic theory’) when it ends up concealing the complex historical lineages and blurring the epistemic contributions of various communities." (Massimi 2022, 356)
💡 Examples
- Biopiracy
🔗 Relations
- depends on: epistemic severing
- type of: epistemic injustice
- equivalent to: epistemic extractivism
📚 References
- Massimi, Michela. 2022. Perspectival Realism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197555620.001.0001