Communicative Paths to Righting Epistemic Wrongs
9–10 September 2026
IFILNOVA, NOVA University Lisbon
Colégio Almada Negreiros, Rooms SC + SD & Online
The closing conference of the FCT-funded research project CORES (2023.14900.PEX) brings together top international scholars to reflect on the nature and manifestations of epistemic injustices, harms, and wrongs, across different contexts of human activity; and on the corresponding challenges of amelioration, mitigation, and redress. Please see here for a fuller description of the conference’s guiding questions, and here for more on its eponymous research project.
Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol/Oxford), Claudia Picazo (Universidad de Educación a Distancia), Leo Townsend (University of Southampton) & Dina Lupin (University of Southampton)
SELECTED SPEAKERS
Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal), Nick Clanchy (University of Oxford), Alice Monypenny (University of Nottingham), Miguel Núñez de Prado Gordillo & Victor Fernández Castro (Universidad de Granada), Ariana Razavi (University of Liverpool), Giorgia Toppi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
DISCUSSANTS-AT-LARGE
Carolina Flores (Universidade de Lisboa), Robin McKenna (University of Liverpool)
Programme
Day 1 | Wednesday, 9 September
10:00–11:25 Chair: Giulia Terzian
Havi Carel + Comments by Eleonora Volta
Is illness ineffable?
11:25–12:00 Coffee break
12:00–13:10 Chair: Lucija Duda
Alice Monypenny, Burdens of Epistemic Agency in Healthcare
13:10–14:20 Lunch break
14:20–15:30 Chair: Javier Osorio
Miguel Núñez de Prado Gordillo & Victor Fernández Castro, Beyond Epistemic Injustice: Mindshaping and First-Person Authority in Mental Health
15:30–16:40 Chair: Amalia Haro Marchal
Amandine Catala, Beyond Diagnostic and Discursive Approaches: Pluralizing Amelioration Toward Epistemic Justice
16:40–17:15 Coffee break
17:15–18:40 Chair: Eleonora Volta
Claudia Picazo + Comments by Pedro Abreu
Conceptual Amelioration and the Transformative Power of Social Movements
Day 2 | Thursday, 10 September
10:00–11:25 Chair: Pedro Abreu
Leo Townsend & Dina Lupin + Comments by Álvaro Domínguez-Armas
Communicative resistance and indigenous rights to consultation
11:25–12:00 Coffee break
12:00–13:10 Chair: Amalia Haro Marcal
Giorgia Toppi, Beyond Testimonial Injustice: Vulnerability and the Political Conditions of Epistemic Appearance
13:10–14:20 Lunch break
14:20–15:30 Chair: Lucija Duda
Nick Clanchy, Second-Order Hermeneutical Breakthroughs
15:30–16:40 Chair: Javier Osorio
Ariana Razavi, The Ideal Theory of Non-Ideal Epistemology
16:40–17:15 Coffee break
17:15–18:40 Chair: Álvaro Domínguez-Armas
Richard Pettigrew + Comments by José Pereira
The Wrong of Epistemic Injustice
20:15 Conference dinner
To join the session on Zoom, please get in touch with Álvaro Domínguez-Armas (domingualv@ff.cuni.cz).
Abstracts
Download the book of abstracts here.
Organisation
Pedro Abreu, Álvaro Domínguez-Armas, José Pereira, Giulia Terzian, Eleonora Volta
Enquiries should be directed to the organisers, through the email address epistemicwrongs@gmail.com.