Feminist Epistemology

3 credits

This is an advanced-level course in feminist epistemology. We will read work on epistemic responsibility, epistemic location, situatedness, subjectivity and objectivity, the need for and limits of self-knowledge, collective epistemic practices, and critiques of rationality; this course centres the critical-creative epistemologies of women of colour, Latinx and Mestiza, postcolonial, and trans philosophers, and critical philosophers of disability. ***Prerequisite: One 200-level PHIL course, or permission of the Department Head.***