Below is the audio recording of Jennifer Lackey’s presidential address, “Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known,” given at the 2022 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known” by Jennifer Lackey
Jennifer Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law (courtesy) at Northwestern University, Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, and Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. Her research is in social epistemology with a focus on epistemological issues within the American criminal legal system. She is the author of over sixty articles and four books, including her recent Criminal Testimonial Injustice, which won the 2024 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award. She is also the editor or co-editor of six volumes, editor-in-chief of Episteme and Philosophical Studies, and subject editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Lackey was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025, is the winner of the 2024 Humanitas Award, the 2023 Horace Mann Medal, and the 2015 Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. She was president of the APA Central Division in 2021–22.
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the presidential addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
