Abstract

Autistic people have had unprecedented success building effective epistemic communities online. A detailed analysis of the conditions and practices which produced and sustain these communities would be illuminating for both the epistemology of social media and the emerging area of neurodiverse epistemology. However, epistemology has only recently begun to theorise about marginalised groups, and many of its foundational principles are ill-suited to this work.  In this talk I'll outline a planned project to develop a novel approach to neurodiverse epistemology, which challenges some of the fundamental assumptions of the early, exploratory literature, and lays the groundwork for a participatory methodology which can do real justice to neurodiverse communities.

Accompanying Reading Cycle

In addition to the APSE talk by Natalie Ashton, we want to kindly invite you to our accompanying Reading Circle. It will take place right before the talk in the same room, so:

Time: Thursday, 27.03.2025, 1-3 pm 

Location: 3A

Please send a quick message to vinzenz.fischer@univie.ac.at if you are planning to attend the Reading Cycle!

Feel free to bring your lunch!