TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hänel, Hilkje Charlotte
A1  - Bratu, Christine
T1  - Varieties of hermeneutical injustice
BT  - a blueprint
JF  - Moral philosophy and politics
N2  - In this paper, we have two goals. First, we argue for a blueprint for hermeneutical injustice that allows us to schematize existing and discover new varieties of hermeneutical injustices. The underlying insight is that Fricker provides both a general concept of hermeneutical injustice and a specific conception thereof. By distinguishing between the general concept and its specific conceptions, we gain a fruitful tool to detect such injustices in our everyday lives. Second, we use this blueprint to provide a further example of hermeneutical injustice that draws our attention to yet another distinction: Some hermeneutical injustices result from a lack or distortion in the collective conceptual resource and some are due to problems in the application of existing concepts. We argue that to combat hermeneutical injustices, we have to make sure not only that individuals have accurate concepts at their disposal but that they have the capabilities to use these concepts adequately.
KW  - hermeneutical injustice
KW  - epistemic injustice
KW  - social epistemology
KW  - discrimination
KW  - hermeneutical capability
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2020-0007
SN  - 2194-5616
SN  - 2194-5624
VL  - 8
IS  - 2
SP  - 331
EP  - 350
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hänel, Hilkje Charlotte
A1  - Müller, Johanna
T1  - Non-Ideal philosophy as methodology
BT  - the case of feminist philosophy
JF  - Theoria : a journal of social and political theory
N2  - This  article  argues  that  non-ideal  theory  is  distinctive  in  its  use  of  a  certain  methodology  which  is  prior  to  specific  topics  (such  as  injustice,  oppression,  etc.),  grounded  in  the  idea  of  socially  situ-ated knowledge, and able to address ideological situatedness. Drawing on standpoint epistemology, we show that one’s social position within given power structures has implications for knowledge acquisition and that being in a vulnerable or marginalised position can be advantageous to  knowledge  acquisition.  Following  ideology  critique,  we  argue  that  both  marginalised  and  powerful  social  positions  are  embedded  within  a  given  ideology.  As  ideology  is  more  than  a  mere  set  of  attitudes  or  beliefs  that  social  agents  endorse  or  resist,  situated  agents  and  theo-rists cannot develop normative criteria that are not themselves situated. Hence, non-ideal theory has to be equipped with methods that are likely to make this situatedness visible. We close by presenting some diverse methods that already do so.
KW  - critical theory
KW  - feminist standpoint theory
KW  - ideology cri-tique
KW  - non-ideal theory
KW  - social epistemology
KW  - standpoint epistemology
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2022.6917202
SN  - 1558-5816
SN  - 0040-5817
VL  - 69
IS  - 3
SP  - 32
EP  - 59
PB  - Berghahn
CY  - Oxford
ER  -