Do Squirrels Eat Hamburgers?: Intellectual Empathy as a Remedy for Residual Prejudice

Abstract

In her 2007 book "Epistemic Injustice" Miranda Fricker argues that "the silent by products of residual prejudice in a liberal society" are often the most difficult biases to eradicate. In this essay, I provide several examples of the kind of residual prejudice Fricker describes. I then propose a principle of "intellectual empathy" (with four component elements) as a methodological remedy for eradicating this kind of bias in good critical thinking.

Keywords

• Epistemic Injustice
• Intellectual Empathy
• Bias
• Credibility