Epistemology Unit Review

the shared meanings group members use to understand their experience, and communicate this understanding to others

Feminist epistemology is concerned with

I am justified in believing that I am unsafe even if my only justifier comes from my intuition.

which of the following best describes this: It is perfectly normal to eat rotten shark meat

Identifying how your subjectivity influences your worldview, research, and knowledge sharing

____________ can be inflated based on unequal distributions of social power

The scientific method is only one of many ways you can justify your beliefs

Knowledge of the world is based on one’s experiences, particularly one’s sensory experiences

the reason we hold on to certain beliefs

Scholarship of the East by Westerners is biased and projects a false and stereotypical vision

The stories we hear, learn, internalise, and tell that uphold existing power structures

a framework for constructing understanding

Who said "personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see”

knowledge that is independent of experience is a priori knowledge

According to feminist epistemology

Ways of knowing that resist exclusive dominance of mainstream epistemologies, challenging unjust social power dynamics

"Everyone should be vegan" is a moral relativism issue

Assessments of someone's credibility based on prejudices about the individual speaker’s social group is an example of

A belief is considered true if it is useful

a phenomenon where large groups of people seem to share the same false memories

There are multiple universes

In epistemology, your standpoint is complicated by your

Systematically undermining confidence in someone's own credibility by denying/ minimising their feelings or perceptions.

Epistemology is the philosophical study of

Bananas are soft is an example of a priori knowledge

Which of the following is an example of a hermeneutic?

Our implicit biases might cause _______________ for understanding societal issues.

Knowledge must be

Testimonial injustice is concerned with:

What is hermeneutical injustice?

The best government system is a cognitive relativism issue

A belief is said to be justified if

School of thought that posits there is no absolute truth

statements judged as either true or false

Our beliefs are formed by

There is no such a thing as an absolute truth

The stories we hear, learn, internalise, and tell that uphold existing power structures

Beliefs are objective

What is meant by "epistemologies of ignorance"?

Epistemology asks:

Consciously examining your own point of view and how it influences your understanding

The belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable

This term relates to frameworks for understanding that leave out some experiences, while centering others

The two types of epistemic injustice

The inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle

knowledge is a type of belief

Wrongdoing related to knowledge