Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice

Building on Miranda Fricker's idea of epistemic injustice, these essays explore how knowledge, power and violence are tied together, and whose voices get heard. Contributors from several continents bring in decolonial, feminist and intercultural perspectives.

Lena Schützle, Barbara Schellhammer, Anupam Yadav, Cara-Julie Kather, Lou Thomine (eds.)

Is persuasion a way of knowing? Bengtson goes back to Plato's quarrel between opinion and knowledge to rethink the role of rhetoric, and asks what that old debate can teach us about argument in a post-truth age.

Erik Bengtson

Why do we trust some sources and not others? This book argues that knowledge is built in face-to-face communities, and shows how online information, conspiracy theories and remote expertise can erode the trust that science and democracy depend on.

Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Martin Innes, Eric B. Kennedy, Will Mason-Wilkes and John McLevey

When is it rational to believe a conspiracy theory? This doctoral thesis builds a framework for telling warranted suspicion apart from paranoia, looking at the concept, the evidence and the psychology behind conspiracy beliefs.

Melina Tsapos