informational injustice

📖 Definitions

“Informational injustice occurs when a more-informed agent disadvantages a less-informed using the surplus information the former has. Informational injustice occurs if and only if an agent is wronged owing to his or her lower position in an informational asymmetry.” (Bagwala 2024, 8)

🔗 Relations

• type of: epistemic injustice

📚 References

• Bagwala, Abbas. 2024. “On Informational Injustice and Epistemic Exclusions.” Synthese 203 (6): 194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04636-6.

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