epiphenomenalize
verbEtymology From epiphenomenal + -ize.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences To regard as epiphenomenal
- The other venue from which environmental issues have been most explored by those interested in discursive formations—cultural studies—has tended to epiphenomenalize the physical environment by conceiving it as a social construct and thus as a symptomatic register of political or economic power, or as a site of cultural contestation.1998, Lawrence Buell, “Toxic Discourse”, in Critical Inquiry, volume 24, number 3, →DOI, pages 640–641:
- To endorse option one is to epiphenomenalize macrophysical objects.2007 December 8, Patrick Toner, “Emergent substance”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 3, →DOI:
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- While conceding with Young (2011) that “it is a mistake to reduce social justice to distribution” (p. 15), Fraser critiques social justice frameworks that conflate issues of maldistribution and misrecognition, epiphenomenalizing either class structure or status order to one another, and rendering it impossible to explore the intersections between them.2017, Viviane Josewski, “A “Third Space” for Doing Social Justice Research”, in Marina Morrow, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, editors, Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 72: