A Decolonial Dialogic Approach as a Corrective Epistemology

Decolonial approaches emphasize the way that contexts inform and limit our knowing practices. This emphasis is meant to counter the hubris that claims a transcendent capacity for judgement. But after acknowledging context, how do we move to the next stage? Corrective approaches must expand on what it means to ‘know-with’ others. The ideal of responsiveness to an open, public sphere needs to factor in colonial histories and multiple, conflicting publics.

Programme

19:00: open to public 
20:00 welcome/opening words 
20:15 start of lecture 
21:00 questions audience 
21:30 closing and invitation for a drink and snacks 
22:30 end 

About Linda Martín Alcoff

Linda Martín Alcoff, originally from Panama, is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. She earned her PhD at Brown University after doing undergraduate work at Florida State University and Georgia State University.

Her books include Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation; The Future of Whiteness; Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, which won the Frantz Fanon Award; and Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory. She has published 12 edited books and over 100 articles. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Aeon, the NY Indypendent, among others. For over a decade she has taught courses on decolonial philosophy and epistemology in Spain, Australia and South Africa. She was elected President of the American Philosophical Association in 2012, and in 2021 she was named by Academic-Influence.com as one of the ten most influential philosophers today. In 2023, Alcoff was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

About the Spinoza Lectures

Since 1995, the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam has annually appointed a foreign philosopher to the Spinoza chair. As part of the appointment, the Spinoza professor gives a number of lectures intended for a broad audience that wants to stay informed about contemporary developments in philosophy.