Hosted by EPIC (Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare)
Abstract: Imagine the following scenario: A person with dementia tells a care worker that a certain loved one visited them yesterday. The care worker replies that the resident is mistaken and that this particular loved one has passed away.
Imagine a second scenario: A person with dementia starts wishing everyone a merry Christmas, and sings Christmas songs. A family member informs the person with dementia that it is not Christmas.
Through this talk, I explore the epistemic harm of contradicting false beliefs in the context of dementia. Drawing on Kant, I attempt to capture this epistemic harm through a distinct form of epistemic injustice which I call 'epistemic pedantry': where a person’s epistemic status is unnecessarily undermined in pursuit of a trivial truth.
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