28: Philosophy and #MeToo with Emily McWilliams

Authors

Eleanor Price, DePauw University
Christiane Wisehart, DePauw UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-28-2018

Abstract

In late 2017, women’s stories of sexual assault, abuse and harassment took the center stage on social media with the hashtag MeToo. But this isn't the first time people have shared these stories--tales of these experiences have been around for hundreds of years. The MeToo movement itself has been around since 2006. But last fall, the MeToo hashtag went so viral that mainstream media couldn’t ignore it. Today’s guest, the philosopher and the Prindle Institute's Schaenen scholar Emily McWilliams, explains the connections between the MeToo movement and the philosophical concept known as hermeneutical injustice. Examining Ethics producers Eleanor Price and Christiane Wisehart join Emily for a discussion of the ways movements like MeToo might address the problem of epistemic injustice around sexual violence and harassment.

Recommended Citation

Price, Eleanor and Wisehart, Christiane, "28: Philosophy and #MeToo with Emily McWilliams" (2018). Examining Ethics Podcast. 35, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/examining-ethics/35