From Where We Stand

2:10 – Learn more about Dr. Toole’s outreach organization, Corrupt the Youth. And for more about Dr. Toole’s work with the program see this recent profile in Guernica magazine.

6:15 – Socrates was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth.

9:00 – Corrupt the Youth often begins with lessons on the allegory of the cave and the ring of Gyges.

19:50 – For more on the significance of “fake barn country,” see this entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Gettier’s groundbreaking paper is here.

23:00 – We mention a number of early pioneers in standpoint epistemology, including Rebecca Kukla, Sandra Harding, and Donna Haraway.

26:40 – Jane Addams’s letter about women and public housekeeping.

32:20 – Dr. Toole’s recent paper—’From Standpoint Epistemology to Epistemic Oppression‘—discusses the distinction between marginalized and dominant knowers, among other topics.

32:55 – Kristie Dotson’s classic paper on epistemic oppression. You can also listen to a podcast with her here.

37:00 – Indigenous communities in Australia have long known that certain birds spread fire in order to flush out prey. This example is discussed in Dr. Toole’s article ‘Demarginalizing Standpoint Epistemology.’

38:20 – We discuss three key theses in the standpoint epistemology framework: the situated knowledge thesis; the achievement thesis; and the epistemic privilege thesis.

41:10 – Read more about W.E.B. Dubois’s notion of “double consciousness” here.

43:29 – The particular sense of “conceptual resources” we discuss here was introduced by Gaile Pohlhaus, and is further developed by Dr. Toole in her paper, ‘From Standpoint Epistemology to Epistemic Oppression.’

44:50 – The concept of “misogynoir” is discussed here.

59:40 – The notion of “consciousness raising” has its roots feminism, as discussed here.

1:11:35 – A recent interview in The Atlantic in which former US President Barack Obama referred to our current moment as one of “epistemological crisis.”