Abstract
The field of epistemology is concerned with the nature, generation and justification of
knowledge as well as the rationality of belief; addressing what makes beliefs justified,
what it means to say that one knows something and how one knows it (Matthias 2017;
Wenning 2009). It has been characterized by many debates such as those between
rationalism and empiricism or those between absolute truth and relativism. In light of the
often pibolar framing of such epistemic debates, the scholarship on ubuntu contains
insights that help advance the idea of a ‘deliberative’ epistemology, which is well
positioned to resolve many such tensions...