Do Squirrels Eat Hamburgers?: Intellectual Empathy as a Remedy for Residual Prejudice

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  • Maureen Linker University of Michigan-Dearborn

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v31i2.3063

Keywords:

Epistemic Injustice, Intellectual Empathy, Bias, Credibility

Abstract

In her 2007 book "Epistemic Injustice" Miranda Fricker argues that "the silent by products of residual prejudice in a liberal society" are often the most difficult biases to eradicate. In this essay, I provide several examples of the kind of residual prejudice Fricker describes. I then propose a principle of "intellectual empathy" (with four component elements) as a methodological remedy for eradicating this kind of bias in good critical thinking.

Author Biography

Maureen Linker, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Department of Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts.

Associate Professor of Philosophy

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Published

2011-07-14

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