PHI 295-01 - Special Topic: Epistemic Injustices: Storywork as Resistance

4 credits (Fall Term 1)

We will study harms done to people in their capacity as knowers as a result of systemic identity prejudice: silencing, epistemic oppression, violent curriculums, and epistemologies of ignorance. We will discuss considerations of the credibility economy, needs for structural change and a role for storywork methodologies in that change. The course centers black feminist epistemologies, critical race theory, and indigenous methodologies. Readings include Dotson, Collins, Medina, Alcoff, Mills, Archibald & Linda Tuhiwai Smith.

Prerequisite: PHI 111.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Nyden