African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
We are in the business of decolonising knowledge through African voices in Philosophy, strengthening knowledge systems in both North and South.
- African Philosophy & Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Decolonising Knowledge & Epistemic Injustice & Oppression
- Philosophy of Science: Medicine & Public Health
- Philosophy of Education & Social Science
- Philosophy of Biology & Philosophy of Race
The African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science is housed in the Department of Philosophy ranked no. 2 in Africa.
ACEPS is a proud sponsor of the 2022 UJ Annual Postgraduate School Events.
Want to join the ACEPS team doing a MA, PhD or PDRF in Philosophy?
Events
- 18 Feb 2022: Reading Group: Epistemic Injustice, Reasons and Agency & every 3rd Friday of the month (online 3-5pm)
- 25 Feb, 4 Mar & 25 Mar 2022: Research Groups: Epistemic Decolonisation and Epistemic Injustice (EDEI) & Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution (E4IR) – 2:30-4:30pm live @ Piza e Vino
- end Feb 2022: Poet, African intellectual & struggle veteran Prof Mongane Serote’s readings & videos immortalised through an IKS online portal (ACEPS YouTube)
- 16-17 Mar 2022: Epistemic Blame Workshop: Theory and Practice – (hybrid UJ) – with workshop videos
- 23 Mar 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: Covid-19 Vaccine Refusal as Collective Irrationality? by Dr Sebastian Schmidt (Uni Zürich) – (hybrid UJ)
- 29-30 Mar 2022: Epistemic Injustice Conference – Keynote Prof José Medina (hybrid UJ) – with conference videos
- 14 Apr 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: The Memory of Morals by Prof Sven Bernecker (Uni Cologne) – (hybrid UJ)
- 17 Jun 2022: International Workshop on The Philosophy and Global Politics of Concept Travel – an SNSF funded project “Reversing the Gaze” (Uni Basel/ACEPS)
- 24 Jun 2022: Epistemic Injustice, Reasons and Agency Reading Group & then every 2 weeks (online 3-5pm)
- 10 Aug 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: Epistemic Decolonisation, Trust, & Social Media Futures by Prof Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) – (hybrid UJ 11:20-12:50)
- 12 Aug 2022: Book symposium: Who Should We Be Online? A Social Epistemology for the Internet. by author Prof Karen Frost-Arnold (under contract OUP) – (hybrid UJ)
- 19 Aug 2022: Book launch and workshop: by author Prof Thad Metz (2021) A Relational Moral Theory: African Ethics in and beyond the Continent (OUP) – (hybrid UJ)
- 28 Sep 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: African data subjects in digital/data colonialism by Aisha Kadiri (PSL Research University France) – (Live UJ)
- 28 Sep 2022: Templeton funded Geography of Philosophy project – 4th All Teams Virtual Workshop (online UJ)
- 2 Nov 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: Saving the World: On Knowing and Being in Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk by Prof Fiona Jenkins (ANU Australia) – (Live UJ)
- 3-4 Nov 2022: Epistemic Wrongs and Epistemic Reparations Workshop – (Live UJ)
- 6-10 Feb 2023: Notions of Epistemic Justice and Injustice: exploration and application in AI & Data Justice governance – collaboration visit by The Global Data Justice TILT Project to the Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution ACEPS Project – (Live UJ)
- 6 Mar 2023: Collaboration visit by PIs of an SNSF funded project “Reversing the Gaze” from Uni Basel – (Live UJ)
- 26-30 Mar 2023: Notions of Epistemic Justice and Injustice: exploration and application in AI & Data Justice governance – collaboration visit by Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution ACEPS Project to The Global Data Justice TILT Project – (Live Uni Tilburg)
Visitors
- Prof Lewis Gordon (Uni Connecticut) has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Africana Philosophy.
- Prof Nancy Jecker (Uni Washington) has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Bioethics and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2021/22.
- Prof Cameron Boult (Uni Brandon) is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Brandon. He is a Visiting Researcher Nov–Dec 2021 and May–July 2022, collaborating with ACEPS on a future grant proposal on epistemic blame and decolonisation.
- Dr Sebastian Schmidt (Uni Zurich) is a Visiting Research Fellow from the Zürich Epistemology Group on Rationality (Zegra) Feb–March 2022.
- Prof Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) An Epistemology of the 4IR project funded researcher for a 2 week visit (Aug 2022) and has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Social Epistemology of the Internet.
- Prof José Medina (Northwestern Uni) has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Critical Race and Gender/Queer theory
We regularly host visiting and externally funded Postdoctoral researchers. Please contact ACEPS director Prof Veli Mitova , if you are interested in visiting, giving a talk, sharing research or collaborating on a project. Check out the ACEPS Team and Events pages for the current activities, research groups, reading groups and direction of ACEPS research.
ACEPS Annual Report 2021
Entrance from Napier road, it is the big blue glass building. Map link.