2nd CfP: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known, a special issue of Philosophical Studies

[Mitova, Veli]

2^nd CfP: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known, a special issue of Philosophical Studies

Epistemic reparations are ‘intentionally reparative actions in the form of epistemic goods given to those epistemically wronged by parties who acknowledge these wrongs and whose reparative actions are intended to redress them’ (Lackey 2022). The paradigm of such reparations is when victims of gross human rights violations exercise their ‘right to be known’­—the right to tell their story in the way and the space they choose, with the corresponding duty perpetrators have to bear witness.

We invite papers for Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known, a special issue of Philosophical Studies.

 

Topics

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Epistemic reparations

• How do epistemic reparations relate to moral and material reparations?
• Is the framework of rights the best for understanding epistemic reparations?

The epistemology of groups

• Can groups, qua groups, have the right to be known and/ or be owed reparations?
• Are there interesting cases where the right to be known of groups conflicts with that of individuals or vice versa?

Epistemic responsibility and blame

• How does the right to be known fit into existing conversations about epistemic responsibility and blame?

Epistemic justice

• Are there concepts from the epistemic injustice literature that are helpful for thinking through issues of epistemic reparations?

Epistemic decolonisation

• Can the epistemic reparations framework help in our efforts to decolonise knowledge?
• What would epistemic reparations for colonisation look like?

Epistemic reparations applied to particular areas

• Carceral injustice
• Apartheid
• Indigenous voices
• Genocide
• Sexual violence
• Systemic and Structural Racism 
• Historical Injustices 
• Slavery and colonialism

 

Review

All papers will undergo the usual Philosophical Studies double blind review.

 

Timeline

Deadline for submission:         1 March 2025

Decision on papers:     30 June 2025

Submission of revised papers:  31 July 2025

Final decision on revised papers:          30 September 2025

Final submission of papers:     1 November 2025                   

 

Guest editor

Veli Mitova (University of Johannesburg)

 

 

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Veli Mitova

Professor in Philosophy

Director: African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS)

University of Johannesburg