What are the political and epistemic aspects of political epistemology?

Abstract

Political epistemology is a field of research in progressive construction that is situated at the intersection of political philosophy and epistemology, which, perhaps because of its recent appearance in the academic literature, has more of an air of family, shown by the collections of topics (epistemic injustice, structural ignorance, democracy and experts) than a conceptual construction that accounts for such intersection of the political and the epistemological. This paper proposes an explanation of this space of confluence and understands it as the interaction (positive and negative) of agents’ social and cognitive positions. In this space, the demands of justice and knowledge influence each other by reinforcing or weakening each other. The common dynamic (justice-knowledge) is what constitutes this field of research in which the diversity of issues that have been addressed so far are expressions of the social situations and circumstances in which the virtues of justice and knowledge mutually constrain each other.