Towards A Plausible Account of Epistemic Decolonisation

Philosophical Papers 49 (2):253-278 (2020)
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Why should we decolonise knowledge? One popular rationale is that colonialism has set up a single perspective as epistemically authoritative over many equally legitimate ones, and this is a form of...

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Abraham Tobi
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