UNIVERSAL CONSIDERATION - AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL MAP OF THE TERRAIN

I offer an epistemologically grounded revisioning of Tom Birch's ethic al principle of universal consideration, suggesting that epistemologie s have ethical dimensions and hence that universal moral consideration is intrinsic to the epistemological enterprise. I contrast epistemolo gies of domination with epistemologies in part constituted by the gene rosity of spirit that is the hallmark of Birch's notion of universal c onsideration.