Ricerc@Sapienza

The article aims to show how the notions of «self-reflexivity» and «epistemic responsibility» could make sense of the limits characterizing our reading of others and of their needs, in the perspective of an ethics of care. These notions are understood through reference to Miranda Fricker, bell hooks and Iris Murdoch. We show that, in their own ways, all three authors propose a thought of the limits of our understanding of others, where these limits are considered as tied to our way of conceiving ourselves. «Self-reflection» and «epistemic responsibility» are then explored as appropriate moral ways to respond to the limits characterizing our reading of others, since they show what kind of work on oneself is needed in order to read others with care.