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HYPATIA-A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/hyp.2023.81
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This article examines the epistemic response of Americans to torture used by their government and explores the mechanism of this response. It argues for accountability to create better epistemic environments for a meaningful shift in self-perception among Americans.
In its war on terror, the United States tortured and abused individuals in its custody over a decade. This article examines a specific sort of epistemic response by Americans to the use of torture by their government, the sort of response that enables Americans to operate with epistemic ignorance to maintain a favorable construction of their identity as Americans. I lay out the concept of American ignorance as the active production of false and/or incomplete beliefs about what it means to be an American and explore the mechanism through which this ignorance operates in society. The article argues for accountability to create better epistemic environments necessary for any meaningful shift in how Americans perceive themselves qua Americans.
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