PHI 243 - Epistemic Injustices and Resistance

4 credits (Spring)

Cross-listed as: GWS 243. 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 106, PHI 111, PHI 121, PHI 135, PHI 161, or GWS 111, with grade, S, C, or better.
Instructor: Nyden