Read the following:
- Jennifer Saul and Esa Diaz Leon: “Hermeneutical Injustice” (Section 2.4 of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for “feminist philosophy of language). https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-language/#HermInju
- Asikainen et al: “Cumulative Effects of Triadic Closure and Homophily in Social Networks,” Science Advances (2020). You should be able to download the PDF here with Grinnell College access: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax7310
For the second reading, you do not need to read the full paper for comprehension. Instead, read the abstract and introduction. Read any more of the paper that you are interested in, or that is needed to answer the questions below.
- Describe, in your own words, the ideas behind hermeneutical injustice and contributory injustice.
- Describe, in your own words, the idea of homophily, and in particular choice homophily.
- Describe, in your own words, the idea of triadic closure.
