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PHI 295-01 - Special Topic: Epistemic Injustice and Resistance

4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GWS 295-01 .  This course will examine harms done to people in their capacity as knowers such as silencing, gas-lighting, epistemologies of ignorance and other forms of epistemic oppression. We will study strategies for resistance that center black feminist epistemologies, critical race theory, and indigenous storytelling methodologies. Readings include Dotson, Collins, Medina, Alcoff, Mills, Archibald & Linda Tuhiwai Smith.

Prerequisite: PHI 111 GWS 111 , or second-year standing.
Instructor: Nyden