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African Institute for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS)

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African Centre For Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science

The African Institute for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) is the only Philosophy Institute in Africa.

We are in the business of decolonising knowledge through African voices in Philosophy, strengthening knowledge systems in both North and South.

    • African Philosophy & Indigenous Knowledge Systems
    • Epistemic Decolonisation
    • Epistemic Injustice & Oppression
    • Epistemology and Politics of AI
    • Feminist Epistemology and Standpoint Theory
    • Philosophy of Science
    • Philosophy of Education

If you are not feeling appreciated at your current university because of what you work on, why not consider UJ and especially ACEPS? Join the ACEPS team and see what is available for Honours, MA, PhD or PostDoc fellowships and grants in Philosophy in a fun and safe space. Contact ACEPS director and Professor of Philosophy Veli Mitova.

Events 2026

  • 23-25 Jan 2026: (Talks)听听() held at 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town, given by ACEPS Team members: Paige Benton, Shen茅 de Rijk, Nadia Ellis, Nomaswazi Kubeka, M Lombaard, Martin Miragoli, Veli Mitova, Francis Mkandawire, Dimpho Moletsane, Lerato Motsoahole and Stephen Nawa plus ACEPS RA visitors: Kelsey Braby, Amandine Catala, Niels de Haan, Danni Deans, Robin McKenna and Sarah Wright.
  • 27 Jan 2026: ACEPS Institute Launch: Research Associates Workshop
  • 2 Feb 2026: ACEPS Tuesday Talks: (Glasgow) Affective States, Epistemic Oppression, and Social Media 蔼听ACEPS 11:00-12:30 SAST
  • 3 Feb 2026: ACEPS Tuesday Talks: (TU Berlin) Trust without Trustworthiness: A Non-Doxastic Dispositional Account of Trust 蔼听ACEPS 11:00-12:30 SAST
  • 9 Feb 2026: Epistemic Trust Workshop (with and 听蔼听ACEPS 9:00-15:00 SAST
  • 11 Feb 2026: Talk by Prof (Ottawa), Speaking (Through) Algorithms: Free Speech and Artificial Intelligence. Part of Series Safeguarding Justice and Democracy in the Age of AI funded by UJ GES grant @ ACEPS (hybrid) 16:00-17:30 SAST ()
  • 17 Feb 2026: ACEPS Tuesday Talks: (Vienna) Group Agents and the Sincerity Condition on Blame and Praise 蔼听ACEPS听11:00-12:30 SAST
  • 18 Feb 2026: Philosophy Department Speaker Series:听 (McGill Uni) on his new book Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory (OUP) @ Humanities Common Room, C-Ring 319 UJ APK Campus, 11:20鈥�12:50 SAST听
  • 24 Feb 2026: ACEPS Tuesday Talks: title TBA (McGill Uni) @ ACEPS听11:00-12:30 SAST
  • 25 Feb 2026: 听(Uni of Maribor) title TBA听@ ACEPS听11:00-12:30 SAST
  • 14 Apr 2026: Book Launch for Ben Smart‘s (Springer 2025). Live Humanities Common Room, APK.
  • 4-5 Jun 2026: Workshop for Information Segregation project in collaboration with Department of Philosophy Washington 欧美福利100000 in St. Louis @ ACEPS, 11th Floor UJ on Empire.
  • 15-16 June 2026: Workshop and Finishing the March in collaboration with the @ Soweto and UJ Soweto Campus, funded by .
  • October 2026: Veli Mitova (Invite)听 鈥淓pistemic Reparations鈥� public lecture and workshop funded by Mente y Lenguaje @ Live TBA

Visitors 2026

  • Jan 2026: (U of Georgia) is a return Visiting Research Fellow on a 2 week research collaboration visit.
  • Jan 2026: (U of Quebec @ Montreal) is a return Visiting Research Fellow on a 1 week research collaboration visit.
  • Jan 2026: (U of Liverpool) is a Visiting Research Fellow on a 1 week research collaboration visit (18鈥�28 Jan).
  • Jan 2026: (欧美福利100000 of Genoa) a Visiting Researcher of Political Philosophy (25-30 Jan).
  • Jan-Feb 2026: is a Lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the 欧美福利100000 of Vienna and will spend 6 weeks on a collaboration visit funded by his FWF-Project 鈥淭he Ethics of Blaming and Praising Group Agents鈥� (12 Jan鈥�27 Feb).
  • Jan-Feb 2026: is a PHD-candidate from听 Glasgow 欧美福利100000听 on a research visit (13 Jan-6th Feb).
  • Jan-Feb 2025: (Technische Universit盲t Berlin) is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG-funded project “Trust and Trustworthiness and their Implications for Testimony and Epistemic Authority” (16 Jan-13 Feb).
  • Feb 2026: is a Professor of Political Science at McGill 欧美福利100000听on a 1 week research collaboration visit (16-27 Feb).
  • Feb 2026: is a PhD student of philosophy at 欧美福利100000 of Maribor, Slovenia听on a 1 week research collaboration visit (23-28 Feb).
  • Apr-Aug 2026: (Brandon U) is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy and a return Visiting Researcher collaborating with ACEPS (14 Apr-31 Aug).
  • Jun 2026: Alex Cunningham, Esther Ng, and Graham Curtiss Rowlands: PhD candidates from Department of Philosophy @ Washington 欧美福利100000 in St. Louis on a Postgraduate exchange.
  • Jun 2026: is a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Global Data Justice Project at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), affiliated with Digital Legal Studies听on a 1 week research collaboration visit.
  • 2nd Semester 2026:听听is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Zurich Epistemology Group on Rationality (Zegra) at Zurich 欧美福利100000 and a return visitor听on a 1 week research collaboration visit as part of SNSF-Ambizione project 鈥淩elational Epistemology鈥�.
  • Sep 2026: is a Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown 欧美福利100000听and the听2025-2026听Visiting Fellow at the SOCRATES Institute at Leibniz Universit盲t Hannover听on a 3 week research collaboration visit.

 

ACEPS address: UJ on Empire, 5th floor, cnr Barry Hertzog and Napier road, Milpark, Johannesburg. Entrance from Napier road, it is the big blue glass building (previously the Johannesburg Stock Exchange). . UJ 2026 academic calendar for visitors.