Loss of Epistemic Self-Determination in the Anthropocene

Ethics, Policy and Environment 20 (2):156-167 (2017)
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Abstract

One serious harm facing communities in the Anthropocene is epistemic loss. This is increasingly recognized as a harm in international policy discourses around adaptation to climate change. Epistemic loss is typically conceived of as the loss of a corpus of knowledge, or less commonly, as the further loss of epistemic methodologies. In what follows, I argue that epistemic loss also can involve the loss of epistemic self-determination, and that this framework can help to usefully examine adaptation policies.

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Ian Werkheiser
University Of Texas Rio Grande VAlley

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