Brief Overview
Every researcher will sooner or later (usually sooner rather than later) be confronted with the need to develop an account of the epistemological dimensions of their work: what do you understand by knowledge, what are the criteria for knowledge and how is the practice of “producing knowledge” related to a range of concerns, practical, technical, related to the discipline your research sits in, normative, ethical, political? Epistemology as a philosophical discipline is concerned with all these aspects. In this session, Prof Johan Siebers, Professor of Philosophy at Middlesex, will facilitate a dialogue on epistemology and its relation to theory formation and research practice.