Non attending students, can choose one of the following texts:
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) Robert Proctor e Londa Schiebinger, Agnotology. The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2008.
Attending students will find all the materials needed for the course in the moodle class.
4) Charles Mills, The Racial Contract, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1997.
Learning Objectives
Improving critical thinking and argumentation.
Prerequisites
Nessuno.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures and seminars.
Type of Assessment
Written Examination for non attending students. The exam consist in three open question. You will have 1hour at your disposal for the written text.
4 written papers on the materials uploaded in the moodle class for attending students. Attending student are required to present their papers in class.
Course program
Which is the relationship between epistemology and Ignorance. Who has the right to speak and who does not? Who is listened and who is not? After a brief introduction to social epistemology, the course will analyze the literature on the epistemology of ignorance and its relationship with feminist epistemology and liberatory epistemology.