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epistemic justice

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Universal participation in terms of equality of all inquirers in access to information and knowledge. Disputes over meaning and importance, among powerful and powerless social groups, on what knowledge counts as true, valid and important in decision-making. The idea of epistemic injustice also relates to distributive unfairness in the distribution of epistemic or knowledge goods and services such as information or education.

Values assessment Anderson, 2012, Fricker, 2013; Medina, 2013, Coady, 2010