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SUMMARY:Soumhya Venkatesan (University of Manchester) "Democratic Epistem
 ology\, Anyone? Approaches to and Images of Knowledge as Radically Open 
 to All Comers"
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DESCRIPTION:This paper\, based on ethnographic fieldwork among British Sp
 iritualists in Edinburgh by Adam Reed and pub philosophers in Liverpool 
 by Soumhya Venkatesan\, seeks to propose an anthropologically grounded s
 ocial epistemology. We draw inspiration from philosopher Alvin Goldman’s
  argument that rather than the highly individualistic focus of tradition
 al epistemology\, because much of human truth and knowledge seeking is c
 ollaborative and interactive\, what is required is a social epistemology
  which focuses on social paths or routes to knowledge. Our particular in
 terest is in social epistemological projects that are designed to be ope
 n to anybody at every point in time\, what Logie Barrow calls Democratic
  Epistemologies (1986). We enquire into the images of knowledge (Elkana 
 1981) that enable such openness and the procedures and methodologies to 
 which participants must commit in order to produce what they understand 
 as satisfactory and meaningful knowledge. We argue that sites of democra
 tic epistemology can inform anthropology in two important ways.  Firstly
 \, they show that knowledge\, in the weak senses of true and/or sincere 
 belief\, is a product of specific methodologies and methods specific to 
 particular knowledge-producing groups. The anthropological task\, unlike
  the philosophical\, is not to evaluate knowledge procedures for their t
 ruthfulness but to understand the what\, how and why of knowledge for sp
 ecific communities of knowledge producers. Secondly\, by virtue of their
  similarities and dissimilarities with academic knowledge production\, w
 e explore the productive possibilities of using these democratic epistem
 ological methods in anthropological pedagogy and more broadly.\n\nSoumhy
 a Venkatesan is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Ma
 nchester.\n
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LOCATION:Boardroom\, 2nd floor\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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