On Thursday, April 3, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., join us for the book launch of The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice: Situating Epistemic Power and Agency (OUP, 2025), written by Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal). The event will take place on the 5th floor of the Pavillon Thérèse-Casgrain, room W-5215, Université du Québec à Montréal, 455 René-Lévesque East, Montreal.

Organized by UQÀM’s Department of Philosophy, in collaboration with the Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’injustice et l’agentivité épistémiques (CRC-IAE), the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique (GRIPP), the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ), and the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ).

We look forward to seeing you there!

Summary

Adopting standpoint theory as both a theoretical and a methodological framework, Catala considers several pressing social questions, such as deliberative impasses in divided societies, colonial memory, academic migration, the underrepresentation of members of non-dominant groups in certain fields, the marginalization of minoritized minds such as intellectually disabled people, and the underdiagnosing of autistic women. By analyzing these social questions through the lens of the dynamics of epistemic injustice, this book makes two main contributions: it develops a systematic account of epistemic power and agency that highlights the interaction between individual and structural factors, and it offers a pluralist account of epistemic injustice and agency that reveals their non-propositional and non-verbal dimensions.