Micah Thomas

the validity of communal consensus as a method of justification, the value of holistic and integrative approaches, and why we should utilise African knowledge systems not as mere alternatives to Western frameworks but as indispensable contributors to a truly global understanding of knowledge.

I will be arguing for the necessity of alternative modes of justification, the expansion of knowledge sources, the imperative to decolonise and democratise science,

hosted by the Department of Philosophy Murdoch University, Australia between 28 and 29th November.

In this context, I will present a counternarrative argument in a talk titled "Co-Creating Science with African Intellectual Heritage: Towards Inclusive Knowledge Systems" at the symposium "Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledges,"

Understanding the foundations and limits of knowledge from a transdisciplinary perspective is essential if we are to address the inadequacies in how we advance human understanding of the justification of knowledge and its sources.