Inter-philosophy Dialogue Informs Research

Our paper aims to justify and illustrate the moral and epistemic value of the inter-philosophy dialogue (IPD) methodology we use in our Indigenous-non-Indigenous research collaboration. Our goal is to show researchers, particularly global health researchers (GHRers), that IPD supports i) moral and epistemic respect in collaborative relationships, ii) clarity about normative assumptions and presuppositions, iii) sound argument-chains supporting empirical and normative conclusions, and iv) new normative paradigms for research. In Part I, we show why a philosophical methodology developed in the context of Aboriginal rights research has applicability in the context of global health. In Part II, we demonstrate the use and success of IPD in our collaborative research and co-authoring. In Part III, we justify our confidence that GHRers using IPD can produce analogous results.