In Defence of Other Ways of Knowing

An introduction to the series

In his book The War on the West, the erudite Douglas Murray mocks the claim that ‘Other Ways of Knowing’ (or indigenous knowledge) should be taught in schools. Murray flippantly dismisses this by saying that we don’t ask the Inuit to create a vaccine. Implicit here is the idea that the rational or scientific way of looking at the world is the only one o…