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Post epistemic injustice: are Madonna’s “brains” actually like Bernard Williams’ brains?
As analytic philosophers or social scientists, we try to avoid merely suggestive evidence. Ideally we seek something stronger, such as proof. This is true even if we think of ourselves as not arguing against the sceptic, rather to convince someone who shares more of our premises. But to avoid suggestive evidence altogether in life would seem to leave us in the position of a person with autism. In this paper, I examine a book cover which suggested to me that Bernard Williams has the brains of Madonna: her intellectual abilities are similar - high general intelligence, high common sense - but she works in a different field, perhaps or probably because of a less privileged background. I speculatively propose that Madonna’s brains have been affected by epistemic injustice and her brains are now more similar to mine.
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