When Being Believed Is Not Enough: Epistemic Injustice, Institutional Receivability, and the Transordoist Gap
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This essay introduces institutional receivability, the first concept in Transordoism, a framework for understanding how persons and their morally relevant realities cross institutional orders of recognition. It argues that institutions can acknowledge a person's testimony while remaining unable to act because their forms, categories, thresholds, and authorized pathways cannot receive what is morally real. Distinguishing epistemic injustice from institutional receivability, the essay develops the concepts of the Transordoist gap, moral reality, institutional reality, order-collapse, and visibility without degradation. Drawing on philosophy, recognition theory, administrative legibility, classification studies, care ethics, and healthcare practice, this public theory essay serves as the first installment in the Transordoism series and establishes the conceptual foundation for subsequent essays.
Author: Sandifer, Joshua
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7167052910
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