Epistemic Injustice:The Interactive Conundrum of Public Engagement with Science
Epistemic injustice refers to the behavior of rejecting or negating others as epistemic subjects in the process of pursuing epistemic efficiency by using rational ability.It has certain inevitability in social communication and also exists in the interactive process of public engagement with science.The epistemic injustice under the paradigm of public engagement with science has the characteristics of concealment,damage symmetry and interpretation mo-nopoly.Its harm lies in hindering the knowledge transfer between experts and the public,making the trust of experts easy to be destroyed and difficult to establish,damaging the inclusiveness and diversity of the public composition in public science projects.In order to combat epistemic injustice,epistemic humility is a virtue that experts and the public should possess,and also a necessary attitude to understand the interwoven relationship between science and democracy.Through institutional design as an auxiliary means,combined with the beneficial situational factors in the scientific system,behavioral adjust-ment from the perspective of personal emotion is helpful to master and apply epistemic humility.
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