Article Title：Fusion Philosophy and Epistemic Injustice
Abstract：
I use the concept of epistemic injustice to think through the practice and methodology of comparative, or fusion, philosophy. I make two related claims: 1) the philosophical ethnocentrism displayed by academic departments in the U.S. is a case of epistemic injustice, primarily willful ignorance, that ought to be rectified; 2) the corrective to this problem, namely, fusion philosophy, is itself epistemically problematic in its tendency toward ontological expansiveness, that is, an unjustified claim to all traditions as one's own. In the end, I hope to show how a robust practice of self-reflexivity can counter this potentially colonizing tendency of fusion philosophizing.
Keywords: fusion philosophy; comparative philosophy; epistemic injustice; willful hermeneutical ignorance; feminist epistemology; world-traveling; ontological expansiveness
DOI: 10.1163/15406253-12340126
Source：JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
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