Religion, Psychiatry, and “Radical” Epistemic Injustices

José Eduardo Porcher has proposed the addition of a new form of ‘radical’ hermeneutical injustice, with a case study of psychotic symptoms involving religious content. The dynamics may be structural or interpersonal, or both. [...]there are different degrees of breadth and depth, defined here in ter...

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Published in:Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology psychiatry & psychology, 2024-09, Vol.31 (3), p.235-238
Main Authors: Ritunnano, Rosa, Kidd, Ian James
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case studies
Epistemology
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Injustice
Metaphysics
Naturalism
Ontology
Psychosis
Religion
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Summary:José Eduardo Porcher has proposed the addition of a new form of ‘radical’ hermeneutical injustice, with a case study of psychotic symptoms involving religious content. The dynamics may be structural or interpersonal, or both. [...]there are different degrees of breadth and depth, defined here in terms of the ‘reach’ of the injustice across one’s life, and the depth of damage to one’s hermeneutic agency, respectively (Medina, 2017, p. 45). [...]we think there is a further option, relevant to his case study. The example is Femi, a young man with Christian background, who enters the mental health system following the onset of psychotic ‘symptoms’. For those with a naturalistic stance, any hermeneutical practices that invoke supernatural entities are based on empirically false ideas so cannot be judged as credible. [...]interpretations with theistic content must be interpreted in other terms (as fictions, unrecognized false beliefs, or stubborn prejudices).
ISSN:1071-6076
1086-3303
1086-3303
DOI:10.1353/ppp.2024.a937765