Collective amnesia and epistemic injustice

Tanesini, Alessandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-471X 2018. Collective amnesia and epistemic injustice. Carter, Adam J., Clark, Andy, Kallestrup, Jesper, Palermos, Orestis S. and Pritchard, Duncan, eds. Socially Extended Epistemology, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 195-219. (10.1093/oso/9780198801764.003.0011)

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Abstract

Communities often respond to traumatic events in their histories by destroying objects that would cue memories of a past they wish to forget and by building artefacts which memorialize a new version of their history. Hence, it would seem, communities cope with change by spreading memory ignorance so to allow new memories to take root. This chapter offers an account of some aspects of this phenomenon and of its epistemological consequences. Specifically, it demonstrates that collective forgetfulness is harmful. Here, the focus is exclusively on the harms caused by its contribution to undermining the intellectual self-trust of some members of the community. Further, since some of these harms are also wrongs, collective amnesia contributes to causing epistemic injustices.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780198801764
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 September 2018
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 13:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/103880

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