Abstract: This paper comprehensively discusses the relationship between the predictive processing model (PP model) of animal perception and the problem of testimonial injustice in social epistemology, and demonstrates the cognitive contribution of the former to the latter in detail. Firstly, this paper explains that testimonial injustice is a common and neglected social phenomenon, and then clarifies the background, root cause (bias), solution (testimonial sensibility) of testimonial injustice proposed by Fricker. Then we introduce PP theory, and demonstrate how PP model explains bias and testimonial perception, and finally a preliminary answer is given to the difficulties faced by solving testimonial injustice under such an explanation.

Key Words: Testimonial injustice; Predictive processing; Prejudice; Stereotype; Testimonial sensibility