Distributive epistemic justice in science

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Official URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/715351

This article develops an account of distributive epistemic justice in the production of scientific knowledge. We identify four requirements: (a) science should produce the knowledge citizens need in order to reason about the common good, their individual good, and the pursuit thereof; (b) science should produce the knowledge those serving the public need to pursue justice effec-tively; (c) science should be organized in such a way that it does not aid the wilful manufac-turing of ignorance; and (d) when making decisions about epistemic risks, scientists should make sure that there aren’t social groups or weighty interests that are neglected. After discuss-ing these requirements, we examine the relationship between discriminatory and distributive epistemic injustice in science and argue that they often compound each other.