Introduction

In ‘Feminism in Epistemology: Exclusion and Objectification’, Rae Langton describes the conditions by which women have suffered an epistemic injustice. According to Langton, this injustice is twofold insofar as it stems from two forms of denial of credibility: through omission, in which ‘women get left out’ and, more importantly, through commission, in that ‘women get hurt’ by failing to be ‘counted as knowers’. The commission of harm includes the ways in which ‘not counting’ also means not experiencing what it is to be counted – to be validated and treated as a credible participant in the work of knowledge generation. If, as Langton argues, the exclusion from knowledge generation is also a commission of harm against women, then future philosophy most urgently needs a revision in practice and disposition.