What is the relationship between epistemology and ignorance? Who has voice and who has not? How many forms of ignorance and distortions of communication are there and how do they influence our practices?
Non attending students can choose one of the following books:
1) Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana (a c. di), Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, Albany 2007.
2) Amanda Fricker, Epistemic Injustice. Power and Ethics of Knowing, Oxford University press, 2007.
3) Shelley L. Treiman, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2017.
4) Robert Proctor e Londa Schiebinger, Agnotology. The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2008.
Attending students will find their reading material in the moodle class.
Learning Objectives
The course aims at fostering the student's critical and interpretative skills.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of history of political doctrines and/or political philosophy.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures and seminars. Students will be invited to present short position papers and discuss them in the classroom.
Type of Assessment
Written examination with the possibility of an additional oral examination.
For attending students, the presentation of one or more papers in class will be considered as part of the exam.
Course program
What is the relationship between epistemology and ignorance? Who has voice and who has not? How many forms of ignorance and distortions of communication are there and how do they influence our practices?After a short introduction of social epistemology, and the space that within it is occupied by feminist epistemologies, the course will take into consideration different forms of ignorance and epistemic injustices and the role they play in practice.