55 And the discipline? The epistemology of the internet. And it just keeps on giving • Conference deliverables: 150 worldwide attendees, 30 inbound international students, 3 talks given by ACEPS PGs, ACEPS Youtube video channel of presentations racked up 75 views in two weeks. • Massive ACEPS exposure • A URC grant application for project The Epistemology of 4IR. Photo: Students from Zefat Academic College, Israel, thanking ACEPS for the Epistemology of the Internet Conference APPENDIX: Detailed Annual Report 2021 Publications Harris, C. (2021). ‘Science must fall’ and the call for decolonization in South Africa. Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, 106114. Harris, C., & Bavaresco, A. (2021). On Latin American and African Philosophy: History, Topics and Issues. Philosophy Magazine, 38 (99), 429-447. Maponya, D.T., 2021. The African woman’s plight of reproduction: A philosophical analysis of marriage, procreation and womanhood. Agenda, 35(3), pp.82-91. Maponya, D.T., 2021. Religion, Patriarchy and the Prospect for Gender Equality in South Africa. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, forthcoming. Mitova, V. 2021. A New Argument for the NonInstrumental Value of Truth. Erkenntnis. DOI: 10.1007/s10670-021-00435-4. Mitova, V. 2021. How to Decolonise Knowledge without Too Much Relativism. In Khumalo, S. (Ed.) Decolonisation as Democratisation. (pp. 24-47, Cape Town: HSRC Press). Mncube, Z., Ludwig, D., Koskinen, I., Poliseli, L., Galindo-Reyes, L. (Eds.) Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science. Routledge. Reijer, J. 2021. Employment trajectories of PLHIV on ART in Lusaka, Zambia: a short report, AIDS Care, 33:5, 693-696. Grants for existing projects Lotter, H., Maponya, D. T., Mitova, V., Reijer, J. Philosophy Dictionary for Africa (URC) (R 70 000 over two years) Mitova, V., Reijer, J. The Geography of Philosophy: an interdisciplinary cross-cultural exploration of universality and diversity in fundamental philosophical concepts (John Templeton Foundation, SA subaward: approx., R 3 000 000 over four years) Mitova, V., Tobi, A. Epistemic Injustice, Reasons, and Agency. (Newton 2022 Looking ahead In the bag As the academic world awakes from its Covid coma, ACEPS’s raised profile and status is already paying off with: • overseas fully funded in-person invited talks for its members – so far five; • a visiting research professorship to Vienna; • an overseas-funded in-coming PDRF visitor to ACEPS, Feb-Mar 2022; • the leadership of the South African team for a new Templeton grant; • three ACEPS conferences in the process of being organised; • three more RAs starting 1 Jan 2022. Still up for grabs Future ACEPS will be an amalgam of online and live events. Zoom fatigue means some keynotes, participants and attendees prefer in-person events. So ACEPS is taking the necessary measures – funding has already been applied for – to cater for this. Two grant applications • URC: If successful, this will fund 2 PhDs, 2 international conferences at ACEPS, 2 talks delivered overseas by members of ACEPS, and a month’s long visit by an expert to up the prestige of the centre and assist in grooming our postgrads for the international scene. Value: R 258 000. • NRF (Transatlantic Platform): Resilience by evidence-based policy: epistemic pluralism and local governance as elements of a sustainable pandemic management. Ben Smart co-PI with three partners (McGill, Le beck and For Hare). Value of SA sub-award: R 750 000. A whole new project: The Epistemology of the 4IR • The success of the Epistemology of the Internet conference inspired this project. ACEPS already had 3 PhDs and 1 MA working on philosophical issues related to 4IR/AI and was running The Epistemology of 4IR research group, so this is a natural project to pursue. • Hats off to the VC’s 4IR vision and the Dean’s prescience to position Humanities and ACEPS at the forefront of these p ssibili ies. Active international PG recruitment • We are actively recruiting new postgraduates in this field by advertising on the international philosophy lists and approaching our network contacts. We are still decolonising knowledge and seeking epistemic justice for Africa Although we want ACEPS to be at the forefront of 4IR research, we remain committed to the decolonisation of knowledge and the restoration of epistemic justice to Africa, areas of research for which we have built up a formidable reputation. We will thus: • put together an Indig ous Knowl dge Systems portal, • continue the sterling work in the Philosophy of Medicin that two m mbers of staff and their postgraduates are doing; • continue to run our Epistemic Decolonisation and Epistemic Injustice research group, and the excellent work that both staff and three postgraduates are doing, • look for grants in this field to fund our cuttingedge research. In a word, we will continue to trail-blaze in 2022. Watch this space!
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