CFA: Epistemic Responsibility: The Ethics of Knowledge Production, Regulation and Dissemination
Aribiah Attoe
CFA: Epistemic Responsibility: The Ethics of Knowledge Production, Regulation and Dissemination
An International Conference Organised by The Conversational Society of Philosophy (CSP)
In recent times, the call for epistemic responsibility has been quite loud. More and more scholars are revealing the various problems and pitfalls associated with the prideful posturing of epistemic hegemons, the insidious racism associated with the overt and covert epistemic marginalisation of certain groups, the outright (neo)colonial oppression of certain groups, etc. Also, other scholars have called for a variety of actions that are meant to avoid or lay a bridge over these pitfalls such as the call for decolonisation, the curation and restoration of indigenous knowledge archives, the call for epistemic inclusion, among other things.
What this conference aims to do is to provide a platform for scholars to engage with the question of epistemic responsibility, especially as it has to do with how knowledge is produced and managed, what regulatory practices are responsible and not marginalising and how Indigenous knowledge is disseminated without suppression.
Participants are invited to engage with topics that are related (but not limited) to the following sub-themes:
Gender bias and epistemic exclusion
Epistemic marginalisation/discrimination,
Epistemic (in)justice
Diversity and epistemic inclusion
Classism and epistemic injustice
Ethics and epistemic injustice
Gatekeeping and epistemic injustice
Superiorist ideologies and epistemic hegemony
Coloniality of knowledge
Decolonisation and decoloniality
Epistemic responsibility and knowledge production
Epistemic responsibility and Knowledge dissemination
Eurocentric epistemic hegemony
African knowledge systems
Colonial epistemic oppression/suppression
History of African epistemology, logic and methods of African epistemology
AI and the ethics of knowing in Africa
Modernising African knowledge systems
Curating the African archive
Value-neutrality and the challenge of contextuality
Epistemology and African development
Ecologies of knowledge
Ecological epistemology
Confirmed Keynote speaker:
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Others TBC
Important Dates
Conference Date: 27-29 November 2024
Abstract submission: 15th August 2024
Deadline for submission of Complete paper: 15th November 2024
Conference Mode: Virtual
Submissions:
All abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically, via email, to: cspcon...@gmail.com. Only high-quality abstracts will be accepted.
Participants whose abstracts have been submitted are expected to submit their full papers by the *15th of November 2024.
Finally, quality papers will be peer-reviewed for publication in accredited international Journals (Arumaruka: Journal of Conversational Thinking and Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions). An edited collection is also being considered.
Conference Registration Categories:
Nigeria-based Academics: N20, 000
Nigeria-based PG students (with admission letter): N10,000
Academics outside Africa: $120
Academics within Africa: $80
PG students within Africa: $40
PG students outside Africa: $50
Please Note: Participants are required to state their Registration Category in their abstract submission email. The relevant account details will be forwarded upon acceptance of the abstract.
Organisers: Jonathan O Chimakonam and Aribiah Attoe, for The Conversational Society of Philosophy visit: https://cspafrica.org/
Co-recipient: John Templeton Fund, via the Global Philosophy of Religion Project Grant, University of Birmingham.
Co-editor: Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence (Springer)