Andrew Kirkpatrick

Education Specialist, Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Andrew Kirkpatrick is an education specialist in philosophy at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.

Written by Andrew Kirkpatrick

An Indigenous Australian man carrying a child on his shoulders walking through bushland observing a ‘cool’ burn (used to control underbrush), with smoke and flames in the background.
KNOWLEDGE AND REASON

There is knowledge in the land as well as in ourselves

Indigenous Australian knowledge systems understand what Descartes didn’t – the natural world has important things to tell us

by Andrew Kirkpatrick