Led by Prof. Johan Siebers and Prof. Tom Dickins
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, Tom Dickins, Professor of Behavioural Science at Middlesex and Johan Siebers, Professor of Philosophy, also at Middlesex, will facilitate a dialogue on epistemology and its relation to theory formation and research practice.