Keywords
Hermeneutical injustice
Hermeneutical excess
Epistemic virtues
Intellectual virtues
Digital. Digitalization
Internet. Responsibilism
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Abstract
The article explores epistemic injustice and epistemic virtues in the context of the digitalization of the modern world. Digitalization creates an epistemic space overwhelmed by information, which has the characteristic of hermeneutic excess. Hermeneutical excess is the opposite pole of hermeneutical injustice, which is characterized not by gaps in hermeneutic resources, but by their excess. Based on this, it can be concluded that digitalization is a source of hermeneutical injustice. It is argued that an adequate epistemic strategy in an overwhelmed information environment should assume that the agent has a special intellectual virtue. It is concluded that it is possible to overcome the injustice of hermeneutical excess if the agent cultivates the intellectual virtue of epistemic progress associated with a moderate manifestation of intellectual pleasure.
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