18-19 August Responsibility, Knowledge, and Power, Johannesburg

[Mitova, Velislava]

Responsibility, Knowledge, and Power Workshop

18-19 August 2017

African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

University of Johannesburg

 

Programme

 

Friday 18 August

9:00-10:30       Keynote: Lubomira Radoilska (University of Kent)    Ignoring what one is doing

10:30-11:00     Coffee

11:00-11:50     Ward Jones (Rhodes University)                                  Trying to Think Through Moral Deference

12:00-12:50     Garikai Madavo (University of Johannesburg)             “Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.” Really?

12:50-14:00     Lunch

14:00-15:00     Invited: Chad Harris (University of Johannesburg)     Decolonizing epistemic Responsibility: Exploring African alternatives to Western conceptions of rationality

15:10-16:00     Monique Whitaker (Wits University)                           Acknowledgement as a Route to Denial

 

Saturday 19 August

9:00-10:00       Invited: Thad Metz (University of Johannesburg)       Why It’s Important for a Society to Know What It’s Doing: An Afro-Communal Account

10:10-11:00     Anna Hartford (University of Cape Town)                  Complex Akrasia & Blameworthiness: When knowing wrongdoing is less blameworthy than unknowing wrongdoing

11:00-11:30     Coffee

11:30-12:20     Bosco Bae (University of Pretoria)                              Knowledge, Responsibility, and Power in the Human Economy of Traditional Healers

12:30-13:30     Invited: Munamato Chemhuru (University of Johannesburg)  An African Communitarian View of Responsibility

13:30-14:30     Lunch

 

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All welcome!

 

Veli

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Veli Mitova

 

Assoc. Professor 

Co-director of ACEPS

Coordinator of postgrad studies

Philosophy Department

University of Johannesburg

 

Home: https://johannesburg.academia.edu/VeliMitova

 

Believable Evidence (2017 CUP)

 

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