Epistemic Injustice

This article provides some insight into the non-ideal approach to testimony - an approach that focuses on how our social situated-ness affects the ways in which we can participate in the practice of testimony and the sorts of contents we can successfully testify about. Scholars working within this approach have identified var-ious forms of oppression falling under the umbrella category of epistemic injustice. In this article, we offer an opinionated survey of the philosophical discussions around two forms of epistemic injus-tice - i.e. what Miranda Fricker has called testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice. After presenting Fricker's view, we discuss some critical replies and explore some open questions in the con-temporary debate. We conclude by claiming that testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice feed off each other in ways that the literature has not fully appreciated so far.