@article{ref1,
title="Denial of Japan's military sexual slavery and responsibility for epistemic amends",
journal="Social epistemology",
year="2021",
author="Song, Seunghyun",
volume="35",
number="2",
pages="160-172",
abstract="This article argues that some denialists of Japan's military sexual slavery are responsible for past epistemic injustices. In the literature on epistemic responsibility, backward- and forward-looking justifications of responsibility are rarely distinguished. Moreover, notions of epistemic responsibility are mostly forward-looking. To fill the gap in the literature, this article offers a notion of backward-looking epistemic responsibility by arguing that some morally responsible agents who committed epistemic injustices are liable to make epistemic amends for past epistemic injustices. The article proceeds as follows. I introduce Japan's military sexual slavery and how it is denied in two ways (state-led denial and individual-led denial). Both types of denial may involve epistemic injustices. Based on moral responsibility, I argue that some agents are liable to make epistemic amends for past epistemic injustices. I then offer three conditions to discern who is liable, which are conditions of causality, autonomy and epistemic competence. I apply my notion of backward-looking epistemic responsibility to Japan's military sexual slavery and highlight its limits. Finally, I provide a concept of acknowledgment as a process of making epistemic amends.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0269-1728",
doi="10.1080/02691728.2020.1839811",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2020.1839811"
}