L’epistemologia della cura di Casey Rebecca Johnson: ripensare la conoscenza attraverso le lenti del caring

Abstract

This paper introduces the main themes of C. R. Johnson’s epistemology of care, indebted to C. Mills’s and C. Elgin’s social epistemology and, in nuce, to Kuhnian insights. It places communities of inquiry and the extra-individual dimension of knowledge at the center, almost conceiving individual knowing as an emanation of a collective mind in the sense of Sloman and Fernbach. Epistemic interdependence makes interpersonal relations, following Noddings, the paradigm for rethinking epistemology alongside ethics, grounding pluralistic, materially oriented obligations that counter epistemic injustice.