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Epistemic Violence and Emotional Misperception

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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: (1) A misreads B's nonlinguistic expression of emotion, (2) owing to reliable ignorance, (3) harming B.

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Hypatia , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , Winter 2019 , pp. 59 - 75
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