TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Denial of Japan's military sexual slavery and responsibility for epistemic amends
JO  - Social epistemology
A1  - Song, Seunghyun
SP  - 160
EP  - 172
VL  - 35
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0269-1728
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2020.1839811
ID  - ref1
ER  -