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Zenodo
2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15640655 |
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- <p><span>Academic philosophy is haunted by multiple forms of structural injustice: the wrongful inclusion and exclusion of social groups, limitation of their ability to shape the discipline, and restriction of the knowledge that academic philosophy can generate. However, efforts to change this situation risk re/producing new and old patterns of social exclusion, whether they work with or without the field’s predominant methods. Analyzing this situation requires going beyond lists of isolated mechanisms, beyond identifying currently most dominant forms of research practice (such as analytic philosophy), and avoiding overly reductive assumptions (such as equating demographic categories with specific philosophical styles or views). This chapter develops a theoretical lens for understanding some connections between the wrongful inclusion and exclusion of specific social groups on the one hand, and the wrongful construction of norms, values, interests, and knowledge of the field on the other hand. ‘Gentrification of thought’ helps analyze social epistemic spaces, such as the discipline of philosophy, akin (human-)geographic spaces, arguing that the dynamic of gentrification highlights one important way in which structural injustices in philosophy interact to produce both social and epistemic harm. In gentrification of thought, a marginalized social epistemic space accumulates power at the cost of the gradual transformation of its entire point, including displacement of earlier demographics and transformations in style and knowledge. Understanding gentrification of thought as a complex field dynamic is crucial for critiquing (unintended) structural injustices within and beyond (analytic and emancipatory) philosophy, and for realizing solidarity-potentials among philosophers within and outside the academic discipline.</span></p>