Alexis McLeod
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first heard Apr 2018
last heard Apr 2020
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Do you, do you see this as tying into, because it sounds like there's, there's an issue of personal identity involved as well, right?
So that like the, in a sense that kind of, well, if you think about what we are as individuals, as persons, part of that at least is what is what our, our ancestors are.
I mean, we're not like kind of distinct kind of autonomous, completely autonomous individuals in that sense.
Is that something you find in the, in the tradition?
Yeah, I mean, it seems like it's an idea, the notion of kind of discovering who you are, right, as a matter of, similar to how people look at things like these DNA tests and things like that to find kind of previous ancestors, the idea of being like, I'm kind of discovering something about myself.
This being the idea.
heard a lot of philosophers recently and I've read a lot of work recently where people are talking about knowledge.
So you talk a lot about knowledge in this book and they're talking about the kind of traditional Western philosophy.
notion of propositional knowledge as failing to properly capture like a wide variety of forms of knowing.
I mean, what you say in the book, it seems like it's really consistent with this, right?
It kind of alternative conceptions of, of, of knowing.
And do you see that the native American conceptions of knowing that you talk about here as potentially independent conceptions of knowing that could operate on their own or, or rather,
Something like forming part of a pluralistic or a syncretistic conception of knowledge that has something like propositional knowledge plus these other ways of knowing.
and
I wonder if this idea that there's like the one true way or the one true knowledge has to do with this kind of idea of ownership that you were talking about before.
Well, there's one thing in the book that I thought that you did that I thought was really cool.
And there's this there's like in the appendix, you have a 1921 letter from the head of the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs that argues for the suppression of the practice of dancing in Native communities.
And I thought I saw this fascinating because this is something you find.
Often.
Right.
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