Doing Philosophy at the Boundaries: Researching the Design of Health Multimedia with Doctors and Indigenous Australians

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Publication TypeJournal articleAbstractWhat is the role of philosophy in researching epistemic boundaries and knowledge work in
cross-cultural contexts? This paper presents one answer through an account of philosophical
research done within a project investigating the use of multimedia Digital Learning Objects
for generating understandings of healthy respiration and circulation among first language
speaking Indigenous Australians. Developing this method of philosophy requires a novel
account of knowers, knowledge and reality which can tell a story of difference that goes
further than one of ‘social’ positionings, and that credits the potential of the research
practice itself to generate novel ways of working within and across boundaries. This account
has philosophy proceeding through three moves: locating the researcher in the embodied
collective situation of the investigation; crediting multiple knowledges through adopting
the figure of an outsider; and valuing the vagueness and multiplicity that characterize
boundaries through understanding reality as emergent. It is argued that this account does
not supersede others, but rather adds to them within a logic of transdisciplinarity.AuthorClark, C.Date2013Publication CollectionNorthern Institute - Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social ContextsVolume13/ 2013Page Number28-36CopyrightCC By. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia LicenseISSNISSN 1329-1440 (online)ISSN 2202-7904 (print)PublisherFaculty of Law, Education, Business and Arts CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITYPlace of PublicationDarwin