Whose Knowledge Counts? Epistemic Injustice

See how credibility, status and power push valuable knowledge out of your decisions — and learn to design it back in.
  • Dr. Madarasz
  • Level: Foundational
  • Study Mode: Self-paced
  • Recommended Period: 1 Week
  • Estimated Learning Time: ~6 hours
  • Proficiency: 1 Graded Assessments
  • Award: 1 Certificate
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To ensure the best continuity in your learning, we recommend completing the course within the recommended completion period. The course is self-paced, so you can adapt your learning schedule around work and other commitments.
Course overview
Whose Knowledge Counts? is a one-week applied micro-course on the theory of epistemic injustice. It teaches a single, practical skill: seeing how credibility, status, and organizational power cause valuable knowledge to be dismissed, misunderstood, or excluded, and redesigning a decision so that knowledge is surfaced and used. You choose one real decision or review you own in the opening lesson and carry it through all six, learning to map its credibility economy, surface credibility distorted by status, find the experiences your categories cannot name and the knowers who have gone quiet, and correct for it with both judgment and process.
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  • Knowledge & Credibility
  • Decision-Making
  • Inclusion & Voice
  • Ethics

Your Instructor

Taught by a practitioner. Moderated by the same.
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Dr. Madarasz earned honors in philosophy at McGill (1986), after studying science at Marianopolis College. He then studied at the Université de Paris (Sorbonne and other institutions), receiving the Maîtrise, DEA, and, in 1999, the Doctorat (Summa cum Laude) under Alain Badiou. With over twenty years in academia, he was Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Linguistics at PUC-RS in Porto Alegre.
From 2009 to 2012, he directed the Philosophy Department at Universidade Gama Filho in Rio de Janeiro, after a Capes foreign visiting fellowship (2005–06). In 2011 he earned a Doctor of Literature from Monarch Business School Switzerland.
He was a visiting scholar at Universidad de la República in 2014, and in 2022 he was an Invited Capes/PrInt Fellow at Université Paris VIII, where he presented a semester-long seminar on Badiou. He is a Certified Management & Business Educator with the Chartered Association of Business Schools in the UK.
Dr. Madarasz is an international expert in political philosophy, contemporary French philosophy, and international geoeconomic relations. He has authored six books and edited ten volumes/translations, with 80+ essays and chapters in English, French, and Portuguese on ethics, economics, politics, history, religion, language, and logic. He has supervised over forty Masters’ and Ph.D. theses, spoken at leading universities in Brazil, Uruguay, and France, and lectured in Canada, the United States, and Chile. He regularly contributes think pieces on geopolitical affairs, BRICS+ and North/South relations. As an undergraduate lecturer, he has taught in Business Administration, Law, Philosophy, History, and Literary Sciences at numerous universities.