Emilia Wilson has won the Postgraduate Essay Prize, organised by the Society for Applied Philosophy. Emilia’s essay, entitled “Mis-interpretive Resources” examines how distorting interpretive resources can enable us to grasp misinterpretations, which ‘feel like’ understanding but distort their target. The paper argues that these resources are insidious, potentially contaminating/distorting otherwise-valuable information and that attending to harms of these these distorting resources, which go beyond mere lack of understanding, offers a richer account of hermeneutical injustice. The paper will be presented at the society for applied philosophy’s annual conference in Antwerp this weekend.
