Epistemic Violence and Emotional Misperception

Hypatia 34 (1):59-75 (2019)
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Abstract

I expand upon Kristie Dotson's concept of “epistemic violence” by identifying another type of epistemic violence that arises in the context of nonverbal communication. “Emotional misperception,” as I call it, occurs when the following conditions are met: A misreads B's nonlinguistic expression of emotion, owing to reliable ignorance, harming B.

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Trip Glazer
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