CEPPA Talk – Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown University)

Title: 'Being-in-the-Room: Epistemic Deference and Elite Capture' Abstract: Standpoint epistemology refers to a set of contentions: that knowledge is socially situated, that marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge, and that research programs ought to reflect these facts. These seem to me to be entirely unobjectionable, and indeed to follow ... Read more